Art and Architecture Titles
Ancient Roman architecture [microform]:
photographic index on microfiche. (Munchen ; New York:
K.G. Saur, 1979. 141 microfiches : all ill. + printed guide
and index (15 p.) In loose-leaf folder. Fiche B7,
A&A
"Written and edited by: Karin Bull-Simonsen
Einaudi ... [et al.]."--verso t.p. "... A
reproduction of the photographic and bibliographic
archive of Ancient Roman Architecture and Topography of
the Fototeca Unione, part of the International Union of
Institutes of Archaeology, History, and History of Art in
Rome, and housed in the American Academy in Rome"--P. 5.
Art of India: paintings and drawings in the Victoria
& Albert Museum : catalogue and microfiche guide.
(Haslemere, Surrey, U.K.: Emmett Pub., 1992. 221p.
N7301 V53 1992 (LC), A&A
Art sales catalogues, 1600-1825
[microform]. (Leiden: IDC, 1994. 3261
microfiches: ill.)
Fiche B3938, SML
Continued by: Art sales catalogues,
1826-1860."Based on Frits Lugt's Repertoire des
catalogues de ventes publiques interessant l'art ou la
curiosite, La Haye,1938, volume 1 (1600-1825)"--p. i.
Accompanied by guide (57 p.)
GUIDE: Art sales catalogues, 1600-1825: a guide to the
microform collection. SML, Z5939 +A89 1994 (LC)
Art sales catalogues, 1826-1860 [microform].
(Leiden : IDC, c1996. 3135 microfiches) Fiche B3939,
SML
Continues Art sales catalogues, 1600-1825.
"Based on [v. 1 of] Frits Lugt's Repertoire des
catalogues de ventes publiques interessant l'art ou la
curiosite, La Haye, 1938."
GUIDE: Art sales catalogues, 1600-1825 : guide to the
microform collection. SML Microtexts Desk Z5939 +A782 1997
(LC)
Baedeker's handbook(s) for travelers. (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1975. 2,200 microfiches). Fiche B1271,
SML
This is the complete collection of 266 editions
published in English between 1861 and 1939. It covers 31
different areas, concentrating on Germany (55 editions),
Italy (51 editions), and Switzerland (28 editions),
Canada and the U.S. The guides provide thousands of
discrete pieces of social and economic information, as
well as numerous maps.
GUIDE: Baedeker's handbook(s) for travelers: a
bibliography of English editions published prior to World
War II. SML Ref Z6016 T7 G74 (LC)
Boston Athenaeum. Catalog of the print and photograph
collection, Boston
Athenaeum [microform]. (Boston : G.K. Hall
Micropublications, 1989. 79 microfiches) Fiche B16,
A&A
GUIDE: Catalog of the Boston Athenaeum print and
photograph collection, user's guide. A&A Ref NE 53
B67B67 1989 (LC), also reproduced as fiche 79
Christie's pictorial archive [microform].
(London : Mindata, 1980 microfiches in binders: ill. + 1
booklet.) Fiche B37, BAC
Photographs of items of fine and applied art
auctioned by Christie's, ca. 1910-1980.
Cicognara Library [microform] : literary
sources in the history of art and kindred subjects. (Urbana,
Il : Published by the Leopoldo Cicognara Program at the
University of Illinois Library in association with the
Vatican Library, 1989-1997. microfiches + catalog) Fiche
B2669, SML
Reproduces the entire Fondo Cicognara of the
Vatican Library.
GUIDE: Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichita
posseduti dal conte Cicognara. The catalog is also
reproduced on the first 14 microfiches. Microtext Ref. Z688
A7 C53 1821A (LC).
The Conway Library [microform].
([Haslemere, Surrey]: Emmet, [1987]-
microfiches: ill., facsims., plans) Fiche B14, A&A
GUIDE: Conway Library, the Courtauld Institute of Art.
A&A, N1165 U45 A53 (LC), Locked Case 2
Constans, Claire. Chateau de Versailles
[microform] : catalogue des peintures. (Paris :
Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux, 1980. 58
microfiches : all ill. ; 11 x 15 cm.) Fiche B9, A&A
GUIDE: Musee national du chæateau de Versailles. A
&A N2180.C66 1980 (LC)
Deloynes Collection: Documents on the Fine Arts,
1675-1808. Collection de pièces sur les beaux-arts
(1673-1808) [microform] : dite Collection
Deloynes. (Published: Paris : Bibliothèque nationale
; [New York : Clearwater Pub. Co.
[distributor]], 1980. 517 microfiches) Fiche B5,
A&A
Microform of the 63 vol. Deloynes collection in
the Bibliotheque nationale. Includes pamphlets,
manuscripts, exhibition catalogs, etc. A panorama of art
criticism in the OldRegime, The Revolution and the
Empire, thiscollection includes over 2000
pamphlets,manuscripts, and salon and exhibition catalogs.
The Deloynes Collection was begun by the well-known
merchant and amateur artist Pierre-JeanMariette. He was
succeeded in 1774 by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, and at his
death in 1790 the workwas continued by M. Deloynes,
auditor at the Cour des Comptes. In 1880 the
Bibliothèque Nationale acquired the 65-volume
collection. Each saloncatalog is accompanied by
critiques, lampoons andappreciations. For the most part
the volumes areorganized chronologically; however, the
lastvolumes of the collection are arranged thematically.
GUIDE: Catalogue de la collection de pieces sur les
beaux-arts, imprimees et manuscrites [microform]:
recueillie par Pierre-Jean Mariette, Charles-Nicolas Cochin
et M . Deloyne: et acquies rºecemment par le
Departement des estampes de lal Bibliotheque nationale
[par] Georges Duplessis. Paris : A. Picard, 1881.
224 p. A&A Fiche B6
Faber Birren collection of books on color.
(Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications Inc., 1983. 48 reels)
Film B4205, SML
This is a collection still in process. Presented
to Yale in 1971, the original Birren collection covers
all aspects of color study, with special emphasis on
color theory, art, painting, and the graphic arts in
books printed from 1558 to the 1930's. It includes books
concerning color in psychology, perception, vision,
religion, medicine, mythology, symbolism, archaeology and
anthropology, mysticism and the occult. For this
microfilming project, holdings from other U.S. and
international collections have been added including works
on the physics and chemistry of color. The collection is
rich in color illustrations.
GUIDE: The Faber Birren collection of books on color:
guide and index to the microfilm collection. See also
http://www.library.yale.edu/art/birren/
SML Ref Z5956 C595 +F24 (LC)
Farwell, Beatrice. French popular lithographic
imagery, 1815-1870. (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1981-1997. 12v. [Chicago visual library
text-fiche; no. 40, etc]). NE2349.25 F37 1981 (LC) ,
A&A
"Selection of lithographs, drawn from the
collections of the Bibliothªeque nationale,
Paris"--Pref. Accompanied by microfiches in pockets.
Flugschriften des fruhen 16. Jahrhunderts. (Zug,
Switzerland: Inter Documentation Co., 1978- . 1505
microfiches) Fiche B874, SML
Sixteenth-century pamphlets in German and Latin,
printed between 1501 and 1530 within the Holy Roman
Empire, and now kept in libraries, museums and archives
of West Germany and West Berlin. These pamphlets were
addressed to the general public and were intended to
influence opinion, and thus could be viewed as early
examples of mass communication.
GUIDE: Flugschriften des fruhen 16. Jahrhunderts:
Microfiche Serie: Register. SML Ref DD176 A2 F582
Historic American Buildings Survey
[microform]. (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
: Chadwyck-Healey; Teaneck, N.J.: Somerset House, 1980.
[1567] microfiches : ill., maps) Fiche B2674,
SML
Includes "45,000 photographs and 35,000 pages of
text describing 20,000 architecturally significant sites
and structures" in the United States (except Alaska and
Hawaii), District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the
Virgin Islands. Cf. Chadwyck-Healey Catalogue, 1982. The
original archive is in the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. The microfiche ed.
includes material received by the Library to the end of
1979.
History of photography. (Woodbridge, CT: Research
Publications Inc, 1979- . 202 reels) Film B3817, B3818
This collection consists of approximately 2,200
monograph and pamphlet titles and some 125 periodicals.
The core of the collection was drawn from the holdings of
the International Museum of Photography at the George
Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y. Also included are
materials from the Research Libraries of the New York
Public Library and Columbia University's Epstean
Collection. The collection is divided into 2 sections:
Section I: Monographs and pamphlets; Section II:
Periodicals.
GUIDE: History of photography. Bibliography and reel
guide to the microfilm collection. SML Ref TR15 +H573 1982
(LC)
Index of ancient art and architecture: monuments of
Greek and Roman cultural heritage in the photographic
collection of the German Archaeological Institute in
Rome / herausgegeben vom Deutschen Archaologischen
Institut Abteilung Rom unter der Leitung von Bernard
Andreae; ... [et al.]; Munchen ; New York: K.G.
Saur, 1991. 420 p.) Fiche B2678, SML
GUIDE: Begleitband.
SML, Microtexts Desk N5615 I53 1991 Index (LC)
L'Index photographique de l'art en France
[microform] / [edite par Bildarchiv Foto
Marburg im Forschungsinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte der
Philipps-Universitat Marburg]. [Munchen; New
York]: K.G. Saur, [1979-1980]. 977 microfiches:
ill.) Fiche B3, A&A
GUIDE: Index of Placenames (1st ed., March 1980);
incomplete in part of P-Z
Kasimir Malevich Archive, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
[microform] (Zug, Switzerland : Inter
Documentation Company, 1980. 46 microfiches : ill.) Fiche
B12, A&A
Chiefly Russian; some material also in Dutch
translation. "A collection of 35 handwritten texts,
typewritten texts, notebooks, and clippings ...
[dating] from 1913 to 1927" -- Publisher's
brochure.
Marburger Index [microform] :
Bilddokumentation zur Kunst in Deutschland / Bildarchiv Foto
Marburg im Forschungsinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte der
Philipps-Universitat, Rheinisches Bildarchiv Koln. Munchen:
Verlag Dokumentation, 1976- microfiches: ill. Fiche B1,
A&A
Includes index.
GUIDE: Marburger index: inventory of art in Germany ;
users' manual (1984)
A&A Ref, Z5961 G4 B5513 1984 (LC)
Microfilm corpus of the indexes to printed catalogues
of Latin manuscripts before 1600 A.D. (Prepared under
the direction of F. Edward Cranz...in consultation with P.O.
Kristeller. New London, CT: Connecticut College, 1982. 38
reels) Film B4302, SML
This collection is based on P.O. Kristeller,
Latin manuscript books before 1600, 3rd ed. The films are
arranged in the order of the listing in LMB, and the
films from each publication are preceded by a target
sheet giving the item number in the corpus, the page and
column in LMB, and the title of the publication.
GUIDE: Guide to Microfilm corpus of the indexes to
printed catalogues of Latin manuscripts before 1600 A.D. SML
Ref Z6605.L3 +M53 (LC)
Microfilm corpus of unpublished inventories of Latin
manuscripts through 1600 A.D. (Prepared under the
direction of F. Edward Cranz. New London, CT: Connecticut
College, [1987]. 340 reels) Film B5833, SML
The items are arranged alphabetically, first by
cities and then by libraries. The corpus also includes an
appendix reel containing small lists from a large number
of libraries. The reel is arranged in the same
alphabetical order as the rest of the corpus; its
contents are described under "Appendix" in the guide
below, and the libraries are cross-referenced
alphabetically in the main listing.
GUIDE: A Microfilm corpus of unpublished inventories of
Latin manuscripts through 1600 A.D. SML Ref Z6605 L3 +M54
(LC)
New York Public Library.The artists file
[microform]. (Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey,
[1987]-1989. 11,281 microfiches : ill. + 1 index (10
microfiches in loose-leaf binder) Fiche B15, A&A
Original file compiled by and located in the New
York Public Library.
Sotheby & Co. (London, England). Catalogues of
sales [microform]. (Ann Arbor: Xerox University
Microfilms ; [London]: Sotheby & Co., 1972- 538
microfilm reels; 4 in., 16 mm. + guide (5 v.) Film B12, B18,
BAC
Covers 1734-1970; 1971-1990
GUIDE: fiche 1-3867
The Tate Gallery Archive, an index on microfiche, 1986
[microform] (London: Ormonde Pub.; New York,
N.Y.: Clearwater Pub. Co. [distributor], 1986. 122
microfiches + 1 guide (ix leaves) Fiche B3, BAC
"It contains over 26,500 entries ... of the
catalogued contents of the Archive." -- P. iv of guide.
Trade catalogues at Winterthur. (New York:
Clearwater Publishing Co., [1984]. [3,611]
fiches) Fiche B1101, SML
Winterthur library's trade catalog collection
contains approximately 2,000 items. While there are a
number of important late eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century imprints, most of the catalogs date
from 1870 to 1910. Among trade catalog collections the
Winterthur collections remains unique because rather than
focus on a single subject its purpose is to document the
full range of American material life up to World War II.
Firms represented in the library's collection include
furniture makes, silversmiths, clothing manufacturers,
potter, saddlers, and architects. Of interest to art,
labor, and social historians.
GUIDE: Trade catalogues at Winterthur: a guide to the
literature of merchandising, 1750 to 1980. SML Ref Z7164 M18
H43 1984 (LC)
University of California, Santa Barbara. Arts Library.
Art exhibition catalogs [microform].
([Teaneck, N.J.] : Somerset House, 1977-
microfiches; Two times a year, 1980- Annual, 1977-1979; Nov.
1977- ) Fiche S3, A&A
Catalogs of the art exhibition catalog
collection of the Arts Library, University of California
at Santa Barbara Issued in three parts: Subject list;
Numerical list; Agency index.
Victoria & Albert Museum. Victoria and Albert
Museum early rare photographic collection. (London:
World Microfilms Publication, 1980. 24 reels) Film B4496,
SML
These photographs from the Victoria & Albert
Museum comprise one of the world's finest collections of
images from the early days of photography, carefully
recorded on color microfilm. The V&A's collection was
built up from the 1850's, and Part B of this project is
the set of original Registers which record the
collection, often naming photographer, prices, and
vendors, and providing dates. Leading British
photographers are well represented, as are important
early photographers outside of Britain. The subject are
extremely wide-ranging.
GUIDE: Victoria and Albert Museum early rare photographic
collection: descriptive list of contents. SML Ref TR651 V53
(LC)
Victoria and Albert Museum. The national collection of
watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum on colour
microfiche [microform] / introduced by Michael
Kauffmann. (London: Ormonde, 1982. 2 cases (8 p., 82
microfiches: chiefly col. ill.) Fiche B16, BAC
Arrangement of microfiche follows entries in
Lambourne, L. British watercolours in the Victoria and
Albert Museum. London : Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980.
GUIDE: Catalogue
BAC Ref ND1727 G7 +L885 (LC)
Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
[microform]. [Oxford, Oxfordshire :
Micromedia, 1979-1980]. 14,854 microfiches: chiefly ill.
+ index (363 leaves) Fiche 33, BAC
Reproduction of the collection of photographs of
works of art. Accompanying Index to Witt Library lists
only artists occupying more than three boxes. Microfiches
issued in 42 boxes, arranged by school. Pt. 1. American
school-British, Canadian and Czech/Bohemian Schools
(fiche 1-3746) -- pt. 4. Netherlands school-Swiss,
westernised oriental and Yugoslavian schools (fiche
10891-14854)
Continued by the Witt Library Update.
Witt Library. The Witt Library update, 1981 - 1991 in
the Courtauld Institute of Art [microform].
(Haslemere, England: Emmett Publishing, 1992. 5715
microfiches: ill.+ 1 guide (56 p.) Fiche B32, BAC
Photographs of paintings, drawings, and
engravings of European and Western art. Issued in 12
boxes; boxes have title: The Witt Library 10 year update
1981 - 1991.
Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte in Munchen.
Bibliothek. [Kataloge] [microform] /
Bibliothek des Zentralinstituts fur Kunstgeschichte in
Munchen. (Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1982-1984. 931 microfiches
Fiche B1331, SML
GUIDE: Kataloge der Bibliothek des Zentralinstituts
fður
Kunstgeschichte in Mðunchen : Begleitheft zum
Sachkatalog. SML, Microtexts Desk Z929 Z45 1985 (LC)
A&A Z929 Z45 1985 (LC)
National Biographical Archives
American biographical archive. (Gerry Easter.
London; New York: K.G. Saur, 1986. 850 microfiches) Fiche
B1209 in Main Reading Room, SML
This collection reproduces, in a single
alphabetical sequence, the complete biographical entries
on 350,000 individuals, cumulated from 400 sources dating
from the 17th to the early 20th century. It covers Canada
as well as the United States. The first several fiche
contain the biographical sources used to compile the
collection.
GUIDE: No index is necessary; all the entries for an
individual appear together, and eye-legible fiche headers
provide access.
Archives biographiques francaises. (Susan Bradley.
London; New York: K.G. Saur. 1053 microfiches) Fiche B2252
in Main Reading Room, SML
A compilation of biographical notices selected
from 180 biographical works on about 140,000 people in
France, French-speaking Switzerland, Belgium, French
Canada, and the Francophone colonies, as well as
foreigners associated with France for a period of their
lives. The span of coverage is from the beginning of
French civilization to 1914.
GUIDE: Index biographique francais. ed. Helen and Barry
Dwyer. SML Ref CT1003 +A83 1988 Index
Archivio biografic italiano. (Tommaso Nap.
Munchen; New York: K.G. Saur, 1988- . 220 microfiches) Fiche
B1279 in Main Reading Room, SML
This collection includes information gleaned
from 321 important and representative Italian
biographical reference sources published from the 17th to
the 20th century. The result is an accumulation of about
200,000 entries arranged in a single alphabetical
sequence. Cross references are not extensive, a problem
which the editor say will be addressed in a forthcoming
index. The first 22 fiches contain title pages and
prefaces from the sources.
GUIDE: There is a short introduction filed with the
fiches in the SML Main Ref Room.
Archivo biografico de Espana, Portugal e
Iberoamerica. (Victor Herrero Mediavilla, and L. Rosa
Aguayo Nayle. Munchen; New York: K.G. Saur, c1986. 1494
microfiches) Fiche B1267 in Main Reading Room, SML
Reproduces the biographical dictionaries and
encyclopedias of earlier centuries. The scope of the
Archivo reflects the historic world-wide dominion of
Spain and Portugal--from the Iberian Peninsula, the
Balearic and Canary Islands to Mexico, Honduras, Brazil,
and Argentina to Mozambique, Macao and the Phillippines.
Only 55% of the material pertains exclusively to Spain
and Portugal. Included are persons from every walk of
life (e.g., monarchy, nobility, military and religious
figures, statesmen), individuals of diverse ethnic
groups, even foreigners who became part of the fabric of
local life. Additionally there seems to have been a
special effort made to include women. The entries are in
Spanish and Portuguese for the most part. On the first
several fiche is a list of the biographical sources used
to compile the collection.
GUIDE: All of the entries are cumulated into a single
alphabetical sequence.
Black biographical dictionaries, 1790-1950.
(Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1987. 1068
microfiches) Fiche B2653 in Main Reading Room, SML
A collection of African American collective
biographies published before 1950, profiling teachers,
journalists, authors, religious personages, sports
figures, artists, and representatives from all areas of
African American culture and society. Titles include, for
example, Negro Baptists in Foreign Missions, The Negro
Artist Comes of Age, and Cyclopedia of African Methodism.
The three volume index is a serious reference work in
itself. It catalogs 30,000 names and lists complete
bibliographical information for all books indexed. The
index of persons is accessible by birthplace, religion,
and occupation, in addition to name. There is an
additional index of women only.
GUIDE: Black Biography, 1790-1950 : A Cumulative Index.
Ed. Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, Henry Louis
Gates, Jr. SML Ref Z1361.N39 +B52 1990 (LC)
British biographical archive. (Laureen Baillie and
Paul Sieveking. Munchen; New York: K.G. Saur, 1984- . 1158
microfiches) Fiche B1275 in Main Reading Room, SML
Included in this British biographical archive
are biographical entires from 324 reference books
originally publsihed between 1601 and 1929. Particular
care was taken to include women in this collection, and
there are many cross references. Like the other Saur
biographical archives, the first fiches provide the title
pages and prefaces from the source works. The entries are
arranged in one alphabetical sequence.
GUIDE: There is a short introduction filed with the
fiches in the Main Reading Room, SML
Deutsches biographische Archiv. (Munchen; New
York: K.G. Saur, 1982. 1760 microfiches) Fiche B1117 in Main
Reading Room, SML
The German biographical archive was designed to
make available the information contained in 264 of the
most important German biographical reference works
published between 1700 and 1910. The 480,000 entries are
reproduced in a single alphabetical sequence. They are
arranged for each individual by date of the source work.
On the first several fiche is a list of the biographical
sources used to compile the collection.
GUIDE: Deutscher biographischer Index. SML Ref CT1053
+D48 (LC)
Scandinavian biographical archive. (London; New
York: K. G. Saur, 1990-. 847 microfiches) Fiche B2253 in
Main Reading Room, SML
Biographical articles from more than 400
biographical works published from the 17th to the 20th
century. Arrangement is by surname, with cross-references
to other spellings, and under each surname articles are
presented chronologically by date of publication. Persons
listed represent every social rank and many professions,
the criterion for inclusion being their contributions to
the histories of the several peoples.
Yale has: Section A (fiche 1-278): Denmark, Iceland, and
Norway and Section B (fiche 1-132): Sweden and Finland.
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