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Winterthur’s Digital Collections: Boston Furniture, Spode, Patriotic America, Silversmith’s Marks, Garden Collection and Soup Tureens

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Winterthur

Winterthur — known worldwide for its preeminent collection of American decorative arts, naturalistic gardens, and research library for the study of American art and material culture — offers a variety of tours, exhibitions, programs, and activities throughout the year. General admission includes a tour of some of the most notable spaces in Henry Francis du Pont’s former home as well as access to the Winterthur Garden and Galleries, special exhibitions, a narrated tram tour (weather permitting), the Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens*, and the Enchanted Woods children’s garden.

Library Digital Collections

In an effort to share library holdings with people who cannot come to Winterthur  in northern New Castle County, Delaware as well as to respond to onsite users, library staff has selected a number of collections to digitize. Choosing to represent library strengths and materials frequently requested by researchers, we have scanned dozens of collections and thousands of images and offer them online.

To access all of the digital collections, click here: http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/

A sampling:

From the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera: Imprints by late 19th-century New York City lithographer Charles Magnus

http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/magnus

Photographs and postcards depicting the Shakers http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/shaker61

Calendars and cigar label art from the John and Carolyn Grossman Collection http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/grossman

Photographs and drawings of decorative arts objects made at the Byrdcliffe Arts & Crafts Colony, Woodstock, NY http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/Byrdcliffe

Transfer prints and proofs for ceramics from William Gallimore for potteries in Staffordshire, England, 1820s-1840s http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/Gallimore

Handwritten account books from chttp://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/accountbook

Manuscript invoices recording sales of household products and personal goods, 1700s-1900s; http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/Invoices

Sketches and drawings by John Lewis Krimmel http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/krimmel

Drawings of furniture from Gillow & Co. http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/gillow

Diaries and travel accounts, most notably 12 diaries kept by Philadelphia and New York historian John Fanning Watson (1779-1860) http://contentdm.winterthur.org/digital/collection/watsonfam

*http://www.winterthur.org/visit/museum/campbell-collection-of-soup-tureens/

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