American Studies 410
EARLY DECORATIVE ARTS AND FURNITURE
Richard Pencek
Spring Semester 2001
Table of Contents
| Guides to Research | Selected Resources |
| Locating Books | Locating Articles |
| Online Reference Sources | Help |
GUIDES TO RESEARCH
Applied and Decorative Arts: A Bibliographic Guide. Call # Z5956.A68 E47 1993 Pattee Arts and Humanities Reference Collection Stacks Level 2
Decorative Arts and Household Furnishings in America, 1650-1920: An Annotated Bibliography Call # Z5956.D3 D43 1989 Pattee Arts and Humanities Reference Collection Stacks Level 2
Material Culture: A Research Guide Call#: E161.M35 1985 Pattee Stacks Level 1A
SELECTED RESOURCES
These are good places to get started. It may also be helpful to browse the shelves near where these books are located for other similar titles.
Americans at Home: From the Colonists to the Late Victorians: A Pictorial Source Book of American Domestic Interiors Call #: NK2002.P4 Pattee - Stacks Level 1A
Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America, 1600-1875 Call#: NK805.S7 1972 Pattee - Stacks Level 1A
Arts and Crafts in New England, 1704-1775 Call# T21.5.N4D6 3rd Floor, Paterno Library
Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland, & South Carolina, 1721-1800 Call#: N6507.P7 Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor
Documentary History of American Interiors Call#: NK2002.M39 Architecture Library, 207 Engineering Unit C
Index of American Design Call#: NK805.I49 1979 Pattee, Arts & Humanities Microforms - 2nd Floor
Index to Reproductions of American Paintings Call # TR199.M67 Pattee, Arts and Humanities Reference Collection, Stacks Level 2
Trade Catalogues at Winterthur Call#: HF5861.H46 1984 Pattee, Arts & Humanities Microforms - 2nd Floor
Locating Books
Use a library catalog to determine which library owns the book you want. The CAT is the library catalog for Penn State. All of the catalogs listed below can be accessed from the Library's Fast Track list of databases.
- The CAT (Penn State's catalog)
- CIC University Libraries (Big Ten) (Search all the library catalogs of the Big Ten)
- OCLC WorldCat (Libraries worldwide)
Locating Articles
Articles are not listed in library catalogs, and therefore cannot be searched in the same way as books. Locating articles is typically involves two separate steps.
Step 1 is to search in an index for articles on your topic. (see the list of indexes below).
Step 2 is to search the CAT for the title of the journal to see if we own the journal that has the article you need.
Suggested article indexes for Decorative Arts:
- Accessible Archives 18th and 19th century newspapers
- America: History and Life Scholarly articles in American history journals.
- Art Abstracts Recent articles in art journals.
- Art Index Retrospective Extends coverage of Art Abstracts.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- Bibliography of the History of Art
- Web of Science (Citation Database)
Online Reference Sources
Dictionary of Art (essays on important artistic movements, artists, and concepts.)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (a guide to brief biographies of prominent individuals)
Questions
Ask at the Reference Desk, 2nd Floor Arts and Humanities Library.