Week 5: Visual Sources
General
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moving Archives at Modern Records Centre, Warwick
Maps at Cambridge University Library
British Museum Collection of Prints and Drawings
History of Work Information System
Early Modern
Waddesdon Manor Trade Card Collection
Modern Britain and Europe
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Women, War and Society 1914-1918
Sources Portal for the Weimar Republic
German History in Documents and Images
Images of the French Revolution
Wider World
China : Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
Royal Commonwealth Society Collections
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Going to the Show: Mapping Moviegoing in North Carolina
Further Reading
Armstrong, Catherine, Using Non-Textual Sources: A Historian’s Guide (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Auslander, Leora, “Beyond Words”, American Historical Review 110 (2005): 1015-45.
Barber, Sarah, and Corinna Peniston-Bird, eds, History Beyond the Text: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (Routledge, 2009)
Berger, John, Ways of Seeing (Viking, 1973)
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction (New York: Knopf, 1979)
Burke, Peter, Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence (London, 2001)
Clark, Stuart, Vanities of the Eye. Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford, 2007)
De Jongh, Eddy, 'Realism and Seeming-Realism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting', in: Wayne E. Franits (ed.), Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Cambridge: University Press, 1997)
Gaskell, Ivan, “Visual History”, in Peter Burke (ed.), New Perspectives on Historical Writing (Cambridge, 1991)
Harley, J.B. et al, eds, The History of Cartography (1987 - ), 6 vols.
Harley, J.B., “Deconstructing the Map,” Cartographica 26 (1989)
Harley, J.B., The New Nature of Maps (Johns Hopkins, 2001)
Haskell, Francis, History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past (London, 1995)
Hunter, Michael, Printed Images in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Interpretation (Routledge, 2016)
Jordanova, Ludmilla, “Approaching Visual Materials”, in Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire, eds, Research Methods for History (Edinburgh, 2011)
Jordanova, Ludmilla, The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice (Cambridge, 2012)
Rose, Gillian, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials (Sage, 2016)
Rosenstone, Robert, “History in Images/History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film”, American Historical Review 93 (1988)
Rosenstone, Robert, History on Film/Film on History (Routledge, 2006)
Sangha, Laura and Jonathan Willis, Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2016), chapter 7 ‘Visual and material sources’.
Slide, Antonthy, Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States (Jefferson, MacFarland and Co, 1992)
Sontag, Susan, On Photography (Penguin, 1979)
White, Hayden, “Historiography and Historiophoty”, American Historical Review 93 (1988)