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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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