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• American Studies Web
  A project of the American Studies Association, sponsored by Georgetown University.
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
  Electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America.
• Intute: Arts & Humanities and Intute: Social Sciences
  A fascinating collection of "the best Web resources for education and research." International in scope, but oriented to the U.K.
• Material Culture/Objects (World History Sources)

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• Material World

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• American Memory (Library of Congress)
  Includes collections relating to advertising of consumer products, baseball cards, quilts and quiltmaking, and other aspects of material culture.
• Collections (Visual Arts Data Service)
  Collections on clothing, political ephemera, fine arts, and other subjects.
• The Farber Gravestone Collection
  Over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. From the American Antiquarian Society.
• Material Culture: Exploring Wills and Inventories
  Includes transcriptions of a few wills and probate inventories from colonial North Carolina.
• Material Histories: Scots and Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Fur Trade
  Aboriginal objects in Scottish repositories.
• Pennsylvania German Broadsides and Fraktur
  Over 250 images from the holdings of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Special Collections Library, Penn State University Libraries.
• Material Culture of Plymouth Colony (The Plymouth Colony Archive Project)
  Studies and images of various items of material culture and the built environment related to the Plymouth Colony. These studies and illustrations are drawn from archaeological excavations, historical "reconstructions," and documentary records.
• Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810
  A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University and Gunston Hall Plantation.
• York County (Virginia) Probate Inventories
  Large selection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century inventories.

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• America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library
• The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition (Maryland History Society)
• History Wired: A Few of Our Favorite Things
  Navigate a grid to explore images of objects.
• Sold in Oregon: Historical Oregon Trademarks

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• The Bata Shoe Museum
• Bishop Museum
• Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
• Corning Museum of Glass
• Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
• The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (Colonial Williamsburg)
• The Houston Museum of Decorative Arts (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
• Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
• Museum of Woodworking Tools [virtual]
• National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution)
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
• San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
• Victoria and Albert Museum

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• Alliance for American Quilts
• American Anthropological Association
• The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)
• American Cultural Resources Association
• American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress
• American Folklore Society
• American Historical Association
• American Studies Association (ASA)
  The Material Culture Caucus is a “interest-based gathering of scholars within the American Studies Association.”
• The Arts & Crafts Society
• The Association for Gravestone Studies
• The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM)
• The Asssociation for the Prevervation of Virginia Antiquities
  Includes a link to the Association’s Rediscovery of Jamestown project.
• Center for Heritage Research Studies, University of Maryland
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Early American Industries Association
• Folk Art Society of America
• The Furniture Society
• The Heritage Foundation “for research and preservation of ceramic surfaces.”
• Historical Archaeology Laboratory, Bishop Museum
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
• Organization of American Historians
• Quilt Heritage Foundation
• Society for American Archaeology
• Society for Commercial Archeology
• The Society for Historical Archaeology
  See their Current Project Links.
• Society for Industrial Archeology
• The Society of American Period Furniture Makers
• Society of American Silversmiths
• Society of Architectural Historians
• Vernacular Architecture Forum
• Victorian Society in America

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