Standish Library: American Revolution and Founding Era, 1765-1800: Material Culture

Material Culture

Material culture is the physical evidence of culture in the objects and architecture they make, or have made.

American Revolution Digital Collections from the Library of Congress
Maps, charts, broadsides, ephemera, journals, debates, bills, documents, papers, and much more.
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America.
National Museum of American History (Smithsonian)
Search for artifacts and archival records in the collections of the National Museum of American History.
New York Heritage Digital Collections
The collections in New York Heritage represent a broad range of historical, scholarly, and cultural materials held in libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state. Collection items include photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, newspapers, books, and more.
The Thomas Emmet Collection of Illustrations Relating to the American Revolution and Early United States History
The images in this digital presentation offer an extensive array of visual documentation-in portraits, scenes, and views-of the people, places, and events that shaped the new American nation.
Winterthur Museum Collections
Search the Winterthur Museum Collections.