Word & Image: Online Resources for Material Culture

Image and text collections, both those licensed for use by current University of Delaware students, faculty, and staff, as well as those freely available on the Web, provide access to primary documentation for material culture research. This page provides links to gateway sites, collections in multiple formats, and collections focused on a particular type of publication.

Gateways

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections (University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, has particular focus on Early America)
Digital Collections Registry (gateway to the digital collections; browse by subject, place, time period, time period and place, title of collection)
Intute: Arts & Humanities
Repositories of Primary Sources

Collections in Multiple Formats

Digital Collections (Brown University Library)
Digital Collections (New York Public Library)
Digital Collections (UCLA Library)
Digital Collections (Wisconsin Historical Society)
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, includes texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture)
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (collection drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky)
Galaxy of Knowledge (Smithsonian Institution)
Windows on the Past (Cornell University Libraries)