Dear ARLIS/NA folks--
The Digitial Library for the Decorative Arts
and Material Culture has added a number of new
publicly available online resources over the
last year. If you haven't looked at it
recently, I'd encourage you to visit to
see if anything might be useful to your patron
group. The stable URL for linking purposes is
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts
Some of the additions are as follows--
Images from the Chipstone Collection of 18th
century ceramics have now been added to our
image database. Multiple views of 265 pieces
are available in four image sizes. (Try a
search for teapot lid, for example. Then, to
retrieve all records for a single object, click
the "Chipstone Accession No." link within the
full record.)
Our collection of e-facsimile books has expanded
to two dozen titles. These include furniture and
architecture design books, books on drawing and
ornament, and 19th century world's fair catalogs
heavily illustrated with engravings of the
decorative objects displayed there. Our newest
addition (last week!) is the 3 volume catalog to
the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.
For a more complete book list, see the "about"
page at:
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/About.html
The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts also
provides several annotated pages of web links
related to material culture of Colonial America.
If you have questions or comments, please contact
me. I'm eager for feedback about what works and
what doesn't.
--Linda Duychak
UW Digital Collections Center/Kohler Art Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
(608) 263-2257; (608) 265-3059
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