Online Material Culture Resources
General
A2A: Access to Archives in England
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/
Making of America ("a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction")
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/Material Culture/Objects--Daniel Waugh (Heuristics on Writing History from Objects)
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/unpacking/objectsmain.html
Bard Graduate Center
Center for Historic Architecture and Design
http://www.udel.edu/CHAD/Center for Material Culture
http://materialculture.udel.edu/Institute for the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences
http://www.archeo.ru/eng/Material Culture Program, University of Wisconsin
http://www.materialculture.wisc.edu/
Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
American Folk Art Museum
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/American Memory Collection at Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/American Visionary Art Museum
http://www.avam.org/Arago: People, Postage, & the Post
Bad Fads Museum
http://www.badfads.com/The Bata Shoe Museum
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/British Lawnmower Museum
http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/California State Railroad Museum
http://www.csrmf.org/default.aspCanadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
http://www.civilization.ca/Cary Collection (Graphic Arts Library and Digital Images Database)
The Charleston Museum
http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/topic.asp?id=1Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, U of Wisconsin-Madison
(Documents, Images, Resources)
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/DLDecArtsDudutki Museum
http://www.belarus.net/polyfact/DuSable Museum of African American History
http://www.dusablemuseum.org/George Eastman House Museum
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/Great Museums (TV Series)
http://www.greatmuseums.orgHeard Museum
The Henry Ford Museum
http://www.thehenryford.org/museum/index.aspxHollywood Entertainment Museum
http://www.hollywoodmuseum.com/Imagining Ourselves: International Museum of Women
http://imaginingourselves.imow.org/pb/Welcome.aspxInstitute of Texas Cultures
http://www.texancultures.com/Labor Arts Virtual Museum
http://www.laborarts.org/Leila's Hair Museum
http://www.hairwork.com/leila/Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/Milwaukee Art Museum
http://www.mam.org/Museum of Childhood V&A at Bethnal Green
http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/Museum of London
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/The Museum of Online Museums
http://coudal.com/moom.phpThe Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
http://www.museumofquackery.com/The Museum of Radio and Technology
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/%7Epostr/MRT/index.htmMusical Instrument Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.nmai.si.edu/National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/Online Museum of Soviet Calculators
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/soviet.htmlThe Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio)
http://www.ny.com/museums/MTR.htmlThe Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/The State Hermitage Museum
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/The Underground Arts & The National Tattoo Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/The Virtual Corkscrew Museum
http://www.bullworks.net/virtual.htmWhitney Museum of Art
http://www.whitney.orgThe Women's Library
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/Wooden Nickel Historical Museum
http://www.wooden-nickel.net/
Art Cyclopedia
Chinese Art and Material Culture in a Global Context
http://hum.leiden.edu/lucas/news-events/chinese-art-and-material-culture.htmlMaterial Culture of the Ancient Canaanites, Israelites and Related Peoples: An Information DataBase from Excavations
http://www.bu.edu/anep/Material Culture of Plymouth Colony Archive
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/material.htmlThe National Fairground Archive at University of Sheffield
http://www.shef.ac.uk/nfa/Pockets of History
http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/POCKETS
Collector Club Online Directory
http://www.collectoronline.com/clubs.html75 Years of the Band-Aid
http://www.savetz.com/bandaid/index.htmlClay Tobacco Pipes
http://www.ramshornstudio.com/pipe_.htmGI Joe
http://yojoe.com/Keeping Ken Dolls
http://www.manbehindthedoll.com/Roadside Art Online
http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/artruin.htmShips in a Bottle
http://www.shipbottle.ru/Wolfsonian Object Collection
http://www.wolfsonian.org/research-library/museum-research/wolfsonian-object-collection
Found Magazine
http://www.foundmagazine.com/Invisble Culture
Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture
Journal of American Folklore
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/jaf.htmlJournal of Folklore Research
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/Journal of Material Culture
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=112Journal of Modern Craft
http://journalofmoderncraft.com/
Journal of Popular Culture
http://www.msu.edu/~tjpc/Material History Review
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/about/hreview.cfmRepresentations
http://www.representations.org/Winterthur Portfolio
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/WP/home.html
The Alliance for American Quilts
http://www.quiltalliance.org/index1.html/American Needlepoint Guild
http://www.needlepoint.org/Chipstone Foundation
http://www.chipstone.org/Embroiders' Guild of America
http://www.egausa.org/Embroiders' Guild of UK
http://www.embroiderersguild.org.uk/The Empemera Society of America
http://www.ephemerasociety.org/
The Ephemera Society of UK
http://www.ephemera-society.org.uk/
Guerrilla Girls
http://www.guerrillagirls.com/The New Zealand Empherist
http://nzephemerist.wordpress.com/
Quilts of Gee's Bend
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/other/geesbend/explore/catalog/slideshow/
Royal School of Needlework
http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/Surface Design
http://www.surfacedesign.org/
Miscellaneous Papers and Projects
Biblography on Byzantine Material Culture and Life
http://www.univie.ac.at/byzantine/
Blogs on Material World at NYU
http://blogs.nyu.edu/projects/materialworld/
Buddhist Material Culture (Projects)
http://buddhist-art.arthistory.northwestern.edu/buddhistweb/buddhist_home.htmlCulture Shock (companion to PBS series)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/History of Costumes
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.htmlWomen Artists: Self Portraits and Representations through the Ages
Video Links
Coal Miners' Memorial Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrANFN1fZL4&feature=related
Coal Miners' Memorial Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zIwhxb63vo
Design by the Book Episode I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAUwzcIwE0
Design by the Book Episode II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlwBCZAgnk&feature=channel
Design by the Book Episode III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4wJg_9lSKw&feature=related
Design by the Book Episode IV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GR_FaxRaKY&feature=channel
Elizabeth Alexander “Praise Song for the Day”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKhOt_JBgxYW. J. Thomas Mitchell speaking on totemism, fetishism, idolatry
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