Prostitutes being arrested and having their heads shaved, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Related to the 1778 police ordinance that forbid public solicitation. (Source: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution 
to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.
The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel. In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.
(architectur* OR design OR building*) [Keywords] AND (asylum* OR "psychiatric hospital*) [Subjects]
(hydrotherapy OR balneology OR "health resorts") AND (history) [Subjects]
"mental illness" AND "18th century"[Subjects]
"yellow fever" AND philadelphia [Keywords] Sorted by newest titles first
(prostitut* OR courtisan* OR "fille* de joie*") AND (france OR french) [Keywords] AND (history) [Subject]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.
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This link opens in a new windowWorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 1 billion titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the 
button to place requests.
