Cornell University has digitized over 1600 books and journals published between 1850 and 1925. The Subject link takes you to descriptions of the topics covered along with links to brief introductory essays and bibliographies.
In this brief article from Anthropology Today, Julie Cruikshank considers ways in which material objects can be presented in museums to convey their cultural context, active use, and symbolism.
Oxford Handbook of Material Culture
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Presents 28 overview essays on major aspects of material culture including consumption, agency, collecting, and analyzing as history.
Smithsonian Collections Online. Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry.
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Presents catalogs, pamphlets, advertising materials, and ephemera from the National Museum of American History. Subjects covered concern essential industries that emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This provides important information for research involving fairs, trade cards, and related topics.
This website is aimed at all people interested in Victorian trade cards It includes scholarly resources as well as practical needs for collectors including information on auctions and images of many trade cards organized by product categories.
Provides information on, and access to, digitized versions of primary-source collections on American history and culture, including photographs, documents, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
JSTOR Images (formerly Artstor)
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A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
The DPLA allows you to search millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Each record links to the original object on the library or other content provider's website.
Search over 8.59 million catalog records of museum objects, and library & archives materials. More than 963,000 of these records contain online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.
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