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Web Sites
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American Memory Project
memory.loc.gov: Search by collection or the entire group of 7 million digitized records. -
Getty Research Institute
www.getty.edu/research/library: The institute developed The Art and Architecture Thesaurus and The Union List of Artists’ Names. You can search its databases through an online catalog. -
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
www.loc.gov/rr/print: About half of the division’s holdings are accessible through its online catalog. -
Making of America
moa.umdl.umich.edu: Search online digitized books and journals from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. -
National Portrait Gallery
www.npg.si.edu: Search by subject of the painting and then look for biographical data. You can specify the artistic medium you’re looking for—painting, engraving, caricature and others. -
Otherdays.com
www.otherdays.com: Use this site’s online library of digitized photographs from the Lawrence Collection (1870 to 1910) or its prints and drawings galleries to find scenes of Ireland.
Organizations and Archives
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American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury St.
Worcester, MA 01609
(508) 755-5221
www.americanantiquarian.org: The society has strong collections of 18th- and 19th-century engravings, which you can search online. Researchers must apply to use the collections. -
The New York Public Library
Print Collection
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 930-0817
www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/print.html: Learn about the history of printing and search the library’s collection. -
Allen County Public Library
900 Webster St.
Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 46801
(260) 421-1200
www.acpl.lib.in.us: Like most large research libraries, Allen County Public Library has a special department devoted to art research. -
American Printing History Association
Box 4922
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
www.printinghistory.org:The American Printing History Association promotes the study of the history of printing.
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