Resources At Winterthur

Fellows have full access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online at www.winterthur.org/research/library_resources.asp.

Resources for the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries include:

• Core library collection of secondary sources in fine and decorative art history, American history, and cultural studies, including academic journals
• Period trade catalogs, trade cards, and other ephemera
• Auction and exhibition catalogs
• Extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts
• Rare books
• Manuscript collections including probate inventories, family records, diaries, and correspondence
• Merchant and artisan account books
• 85,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860