Newspapers and magazines online

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THE BROOKLYN EAGLE 1841-1902.The entire newspaper is online.

THE 19TH C. IN PRINT, from the Library of Congress. An assortment of periodicals online. MANUFACTURER AND BUILDER has plans for houses in many of its issues. I found selecting the option of “volumes for this periodical”, the simplest way to browse through the pages.

NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE a vast collection of newspapers online. I actually found a story about how my brother in law had to be taken to the hospital for stiches when he was about 5 years old.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JOURNAL COLLECTION journals from 1831 to 1901

RAWSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY Cass City Michigan, newspaper collection. I was browsing the grocery ads one evening.....oh those food prices.....

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK some images from the pages of Godey's and other sources.

HARPERS WEEKLY Read complete issues from 1861-1865.

MAKING OF AMERICA, Cornell University digitized books and journals

HARPER'S BAZAR Read the complete Nov. 2, 1867 issue online.

NEW YORK TIMES You can search the archives of the NY Times dating back to 1861. You may have to register for complete access.

Cottage, Village, City and Town, assorted sites for old house and history fans

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NEW LISTINGS
THE BOOK OF TRADES; or, Familiar descriptions of the most useful trades, manufactures, and arts practised in England : and the manner in which the workmen perform their various employments.
London: A. K. Newman,inscribed 1829
a booklet describing such trades as the bleacher, the button maker, the gold-beater and pin-maker, among others.

DOING LAUNDRY IN THE VICTORIAN ERA, from the Elmbridge Museum, U.K.

THE LAUNDRY ROOM an interactive photo of a Victorian laundry, interesting.

PANORAMIC MAPS, the interactive, panoramic map collection from the Library of Congress.These are bird's eye view maps drawn between 1847 and 1929. You might find a map of your town.

WEBSITE FOR WELSH CULTURAL HISTORY, but it's not just about the Welsh. It's a searchable source for all sorts of information about everyday life.

WINDOWS A government booklet about conservation of windows in historic houses, it also gives a good history of them.

BUILT IN AMERICA From the Library of Congress, photgraphs, and sometimes plans and elevations of old American buildings.

BRICK BOND PATTERNS What's the difference between an English bond and a Flemish bond? I can never remember, but now I can check here.

A SHORT HISTORY OF GEORGIAN AND EARLY VICTORIAN LIGHTING

ART AND ARCHITECTURE, from the Courtauld Institute of art, this link will take you to the site's informational page. It's a large site, with many images and even they admit it's easy to get lost in there. It's worth wandering around, if you have the time, some nice cottage and manor house images, for instance.

PERIOD WALLPAPERS This retailer deals in reproduction wallpapers dating from 1800 to 1930.

THE EMERGENCE OF ADVERTISING IN AMERICA: 1850-1920, From the Library of Congress. You can learn a lot about a period from its ads.

FRANCIS FIRTH 120,000 old photos and maps of U.K.

AMERICAN MEMORY HOME PAGE from the Library of Congress. It's a very large site, and I've provided links to portions of it on this page, but here's where to access the rest of it.

SMITHSONIAN'S GALAXY OF IMAGES

20th CENTURY ADS all sorts of ads.

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL GALLERY a wonderful source, I found plumbing catalogs there, and floorplans for all sorts of old apartment buildings.

Here's a link to another page of the NYPL, listing groups of images
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THE TUDOR KITCHENS at Hampton Court, 16th c.

St. FAGAN'S MUSEUM of Welsh Life

PLAS MAWR, the home of an Elizabethan Welsh merchant

LIFE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND

THE HELEN ALLINGHAM SOCIETY , H.Allingham was a noted Victorian watercolorist. She produced many beautiful cottage and garden paintings. A very enjoyable site.

THE WORK OF ARTIST WILLIAM ALBERT GREEN, a 20th c. artist who produced numerable pen and ink sketches of old English buildings.

JOHANNES VERMEER Site, here you can visit the Holland of Vermeer and the 1600’s. There are plans and elevations of houses , a great site to explore

THE VIRTUAL VILLAGE OF WICHAMSTOW, life in Britain during the Dark Ages. A part of the Regia Anglorum site, a historic reenactment group.

THE HOMES AND FURNISHINGS OF DARK AGE BRITAIN, another regia Anglorum site

COTSWOLD COTTAGE PHOTOS at this Webshots site, Other nice pictures too.

WELCOME TO THE COTSWOLDS EDGE….a rewarding site to browse. Many old photos of town, country and village

PICTURES OF ENGLAND, Another site to browse through. In the left hand column you’ll find “picture tours”, click on it and a list will come up. You can select cottages, or pubs, river scenes, etc.

Old Scottish Scenes, part of “tour Scotland”. Click on the thumbnails and you’ll see an enlargement with a description.

HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN THE BRITISH ISLES, Interesting, and easy to get lost in.

THE FOOD TIMELINE, who ate what when, etc.

Images Online From the British Library, the subject index

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY PICTURE COLLECTION. Browse or search old illustrations for pictures of animals, old New York, costumes, pioneer life, etc.

THE BRINEGAR CABIN, you can read about the Brinegar family and cabin life in North Carolina. By the way, apparently Paul Brinegar, who played the crusty old trail cook on Rawhide in the 50's may have been a relative. If you google the cabin, you’ll find more pictures.

STONE ROOFING IN ENGLAND. This page will show pictures of stone roofs in Dorset and Somerset. Click on the “Regions” link on the left and you’ll see links to other pictures on the site.

THE GEORGE EASTMAN PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION, A large collection of photos. Many are from the 19th c.

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

AD ACCESS, images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955

DIGITAL LIBRARIAN , a librarian's choice of the best of the web, lots to explore for just about any interests.

ADVERTISING IN AMERICA, 1850-1920, interesting

THE PAST WHISPERS. A collection of historic and not so historic information and pictures….assorted stuff., lots and lots of links, too, I enjoyed this site.

YESTERDAY’S KITCHEN, one of the pages from The Past Whispers. I selected this one to list separately because I thought it would have special appeal to many of my readers.

DIGITAL HISTORY, an interesting history site, for instance, check out “social history” and “private life”

HISTORY MATTERS In particular, check the "many pasts" section.
There are some great accounts, for example, excerpts from a book by
Gottlieb Mittelberger, a German migrant who wrote about his
experiences in America in 1750. They've published a section about the
voyage to America and the sale of indentured servants in Philadelphia.

MORE ABOUT GOTTLIEB MITTELBERGER If you found the accounts of Gottlieb Mittelberger interesting, this site has more excerpts. In case you didn’t read about Gottlieb, he sailed to America in 1750, returning to Germany in 1754, where he wrote a booklet describing life in America.

AMERICAN FOOD CENTURY. food timeline, old jingles...

VIEWFINDER a searchable English histroic image source,
hit picture gallery, then you can search by word or theme.

HISTORICAL YELLOW PAGES that sell historic reproductions and other things useful of renactors, TV and film studios, etc. I’ve only glanced at a few listings, but it seems pretty good so far.

Georgian and Early American

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New York’s Dutch Houses, an article from James Fennimore Cooper Society with information and some illustrations of NY Dutch built dwellings

Photos of Mt.Vernon, some I haven't seen before.

Cape Cod Houses

Saltbox Houses

Timberframe Houses

The Home of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, The Virtual Tour will show you a floor plan, photos and text.

The Fairbanks House, 1636, many photos with detailed plans

Places In Time, many images of old Philadelphia, including floorplans for some

Mid Twentieth Century

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1940’S DÉCOR, with a link to 50’s Christmas decorating and some other interesting and informative pages
Antique gas stoves.com is a company that restores mid 20th century gas stoves, with a nice picture gallery of their restoration work.

Links for early Twentieth Century homes

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NEW

ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN FOR 20TH CENTURY AMERICA , From the Library of Congress, you can browse this selection by room, city, architect, etc.

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Trimbelle River Studio , stencils from the Arts and Crafts movement

Ice Box memories dedicated to the ice box

Bungalows, from the Library of Congress, there are photos and some floor plans and elevations.

Furniture Catalogs from 1907 to 1933, from the Arcadia Furniture Co., of Michigan

Plumbing Fixtures Catalog from 1911

Craftsman Perspective, the sitemap page, for info on Craftsman homes

Antique Home, vintage house plans, view 20th century homes from various old catalogs.

A listing of Sears House Plans

The Sears Homes Archive, 1908-1940 Hit “images of homes” dates display, a page of pictures of houses pops up. Then you can click on the picture to see the original catalog page.

The Aladdin Co. Sales Catalog 1908-1954

Decopix, an Art Deco Architecture site.

Victorian architectural and historic links

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Melrose Plantation
If you click on the MANAGEMENT link in the left hand column, you will find a path to wonderful things,like floorplans and original painting schemes, etc,etc,etc. Be prepared to spend a lot of time searching through pages.

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Victorian & Vintage Stove Ads, an album on Flickr, interesting

THE W.H.STARK HOUSE A tour of the Stark House offers an extraordinary glimpse at the lifestyle of the prominent timber family who occupied it from 1894-1936.

Linley Sambourne House a late Victorian townhouse,it was home to Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and his family from 1874. Most of its furnishings survive intact from their era.

LIGHTING IN THE VICTORIAN HOME

THE HERMITAGE, in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. A National Historic Landmark
The history of a house that began as a small 18th century home, later remodeled as a mid 19th c. Gothic Revival Villa, fell into decay and was restored.

THE TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK, Text of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, published in 1890.

Victorian plumbing, pages from 1884 catalog fixtures for bathrooms, laundries and kitchens

Victorian plumbing, pages from 1877-1893 catalogs

Vintage Plumbing.com has a nice gallery of early 1900's bathrooms and some kitchens

The Judge’s Lodgings 1870’s Wales, The home and courtroom of a Victorian judge.

Antique Stoves.com .In addition to selling refurbished stoves their site has a nice history of stoves.

The Good Time Stove Co. more antique stoves

Victoriana.com has information for the remodeler, the shopper, and history buff

Victorian London as viewed through publications of the times. Much, much information

Vintage Designs.com lots of information on American architecture and interior design

Photos and illustrations from the centennial of 1876 in Philadelphia.

Bricks and Brass, a British site for owners of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian houses

Places in Time, from Bryn Mawr University. Images, documents, links to learn about the history of places and dwellings in the Greater Philadelphia area. This is one of my all-time favorite sites. The amount of information is enormous. There are floor plans for row houses and more. I’ve visited here often but there’s still so much to see. Take a look and you’ll see what I mean.

Adelphi Paperhangings sells reproduction wallpapers from 1750 to 1860

Reproduction Fabrics says they have the largest selection of reproduction fabrics on the web,
1775 TO 1950

Roofing for Historic Buildings, a guide to roofing materials and when they were in use
Prints and Photographs Reading Room, at the Library of Congress. You can browse or search this site and find many images of interiors etc.

Another page from the Library of Congress image library

Yet another page of Library of Congress Images. Sites have been rearranged recently. It’s very easy to lose your way on the Library of Congress image sites, so be sure to bookmark your pages if you ever want to find them again!

Victorian Houses, and a guide to major architectural styles. At the bottom you’ll find links to gallery
pages.

A Guide to Stick Style Architecture from the U. of Dartmouth Library.

The New York Public Library Digital Collection holds hundreds of thousands of images. I found the Victorian plumbing catalogs there, for example.

Dezignare Interior Design Library, Collections page, a large list of interior design and architectural design links.

Backroad Homes sells plans for many period style outbuildings. If you have a need for a new “old” carriage house, shed or barn, this is a good place to start looking.

The Minnesota Historical Society Visual Resources database…The search page. An example search would be : kitchen, dates 1880 - 1910, in the boxes, and it will show you whatever it has available. A good reference site.

Victorian Passage , articles on life in the Victorian home, some info on early American included. A nice site, much interesting information.

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