Helpful Links

Useful Links for Material Culture

"...the things that people leave behind...all of the things people make from the physical world--farm tools, ceramics, houses, furniture, toys, buttons, roads, cities." Leland Ferguson quoted in Material Culture Studies in America, 1982

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General Links

Material History Review
http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/english/about/hreview.cfm

Journal of Material Culture
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0101.html

Topics in Material Culture
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/history/material_culture/

Smithsonian Institution Online Collections
http://160.111.100.43/digilib/main.asp

History Wired; A Few of our Favorite Things (Smithsonian Institution)
http://historywired.si.edu/text.cfm

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/About

The Material Culture of Canada
http://www.mcgill.ca/arch/stuff/

Virtual Storehouse--Canadian Museum of Civilization
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/analogue/history5.htm

Material Culture Resources
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/MatCulture

Canadian Heritage Information Network
http://www.chin.gc.ca/

Canadian Virtual Museum (Canadian Museums--Art & Leisure, Science & Nature, History & Society, Transportation & Industry)
http://virtualmuseum.ca

Material Culture History [University of California]
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-preservation/mater.html

Material Culture in Colonial America [Georgetown University]
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/projects/material.html

Infoculture
http://infoculture.cbc.ca

Within These Walls (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/

Specialized Links

Bad Fads
http://www.badfads.com

The Material Culture of the 1950s
http://www.magnetplace.com/RETRO/

Pop cultures
http://www.popcultures.com

Fifties Boulevard
http://magnetplace.com/RETRO/

Material Culture: Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940
http://www.artsmia.org/modernism/

The Literature and Culture of America 1950s
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

The Painted Furniture of French Canada 1700-1840
http://www.mvnf.muse.digital.ca/expos/meubles/mopene.html

Newfoundland Museum Notes: Furniture Making in Newfoundland
http://www.nfmuseum.com/notes7.htm

Newfoundland Museum Notes: Conception Bay Furniture Maker
http://www.nfmuseum.com/notes9.htm

Newfoundland Museum Notes: William Winter: The Man Who Made Furniture
http://www.nfmuseum.com/notes13.htm

Point Ellice Collection of Household Victoriana
http://www.tbc.gov.bc.ca/culture/schoolnet/victoriana/index.htm

Ephemera from the Age of Victoria
http://128.100.124.81:80/library/exhibitions/ephemera/

Artefacts Canada
http://www.chin.gc.ca/Artefacts/e_artefacts_canada.html

Religious Heritage
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/relig

Material History of American Religion Project
http://www.materialreligion.org/

Religious or Ceremonial Objects - CMCC
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/treasure/religiou.html

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion

Building Canada
http://imago.library.mcgill.ca/bland/building/

Ramsay Traquair Archive
http://imago.library.mcgill.ca/traquair/

Impressions 250 Years of Printing...In the Lives of Canadians
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/events/twofift/eimprint.htm

The History of Gardening in Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/garden/

Canadian Landscape History
http://infoweb.magi.com/~evb/landhist.html

Folk Culture Artifacts - CMCC
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/collect/colfolke.html

History Collection - Artifacts CMCC
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/cmceng/histeng.html,
(entries for furniture, costume, glass, ceramics, tools, household goods, toys and packaging),

http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/collect/colhiste.html

Treasures of CMCC
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/treasure/treasure.html

Trades - - Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/life/trades/tradehdr.htm

One-Room School
http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~weeds/SchoolPages/welcome.html

Repertoire des Movements Commemoratifs de la ville de Quebec
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/quebec/

We Will Remember: War Monuments in Canada
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/monuments/

The Whole Kit and Kaboodle: Canadian Military Uniforms
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/analogue/uniforms

Military Artifacts - CWM
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/cwmeng/cwmcoend.html

At Home on the Fringes of the Prairies, 1800-1850, Objects [Lighting, Ceramics, Food Preparation, Food Service, Glass, Metal, Furniture and Wood]
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1800/objects/index.html

Georgian Weddings in Upper Canada
http://www.worldchat.com/public/westfield/pres2.htm

1920's Dress
http://www.pandorasbox.com/home/fashion/fash2.html#1920-1930

Advertisements Sampling
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman/jpeg/index.html

The Daguerrian Society
http://www.daguerre.org/home.html

Regency Fashion Page
http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/reg3.html

The History of Costume
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html

Fashion and Fun in 1810
http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/1810.html

American Women's History: Material Culture
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-material.html

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/aat_browser/

Material Culture in Colonial America
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/projects/material.html

Writing through the Ages Timeline
http://www.parkerpen.co.uk/history/ages.html

Medieval Technology (From horse shoes to soap to spectacles)
http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/Subjects.html

The Antiques Web
http://www.joslinhall.com/antweb.htm

Museums and Galleries

The Great Canadian Guide
http://daryl.chin.gc.ca/Museums/English/index.html

List of Museums in Canada
http://www.chin.gc.ca/Museums/VLMP/e_vlmp.html

Works of Art and Caricatures (Living Memory, Places, People, War, Aboriginal Peoples, Government, Postal History)
http://www.archives.ca/02/020116_e.html

Exploring Themes in American Art (National Gallery of Art--Teaching Resources)
http://www.nga.gov/education/american/aasplash.htm

The Art Gallery of Ontario
http://www.AGO.net

The McCord Museum
http://www/musee-mccord.qu.ca/english/collections/page.html

Search the Collection [McCord Museum]
http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/english/search/scrl_search.html

The Museum Guide
http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/webmuseums/

Canadian Museum of Civilization
http://www.civilization.ca/index1e.html

Royal Ontario Museum
http://www.rom.on.ca/

Sigmund Samuel Canadiana Storage Exhibits/Canadian Gallery
http://www.rom.on.ca/galleries/canadian/sigstudy.html

http://www.rom.on.ca/galleries/canadian/sigsam.html

Parks Canada
http://parkscanada/pch.gc.ca/parks/main_e.htm

A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
http://romlx6.rom.on.ca/v&a/va-museum.html

Nova Scotia Museums List
http://www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/museum/listings/loc.htm

Museums around the UK
http://www.icom.org/ICOM/vlmp/uk.html
Library of Congress, Exhibitions
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits

National Gallery of Art--Index of American Design (costume, dolls, folk art, furniture, metalwork, pottery, textiles, toys and woodcarving)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm

Virtual Exhibits
http://www.chin.gc.ca/Exhibitions/Main/English/index.html

The Virtual Library "Museums"
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/old-index.html

Virtual Museums
http://fromnowon.org/museum/museumbldg.html

CMCC Site Index
http://www.civilization.ca/index1e.html

CMCC Museum Collections
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/collect/csintroe.html

Treasures of CMCC
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/treasure/treasure.html

Musee--Directory to Museums
http://www.musee-online.org/frames2.htm

Museums and Galleries of the World
http://www.cbull.com/gallery.htm

Living History (University of California)
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-preservation/livin.html

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, J. Symonds.