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Subject suggestions for scenic design

Try searching in the library catalog for books using the subject headings below. Set the dropdown menu in the catalog to Subject (Library of Congress) and then type these phrases.

Structural design.

Theaters -- Design and construction

Theaters -- Designs and plans.

Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.

Theater architecture.

Furniture. and derivatives like Furniture design -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Interior architecture

Helpful library databases

Architecture, Interiors and Furniture (Webster-Eden use only)
Access to 1,900 images of architecture and interior decoration covering 2800 B.C. to late twentieth century from the eight volume slide collection Architecture, Interiors and Furniture by Stephen Sbarge. Textual description for images of each period is included as a PDF.

Artstor (now a part of JSTOR image collections)
Great collections of the arts, architecture and photographs with strong coverage of world cultures throughout history.
Theatre in Video (part of AVON videos)
Online streaming video of performances of over 250 important plays together with more than 100 documentaries. Definitive works by leading actors & directors cover a wide range of 20th century theatre from live television broadcasts of New York productions from the 50s, revivals of classic works & experimental performances from the 60s and 70s to important contemporary performances. The BBC Shakespeare series is also included.

Helpful websites

Europeana - search engine for European culture
This site is gives you access to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe.
Life Photo Archive
Photographs from Life magazine's photo archive hosted on Google. Browse photos arranged by decade or search by keywords.
Picture Collection (New York Public Library)
Over 30,000 digitized images from the New York Public Library Picture Collection. Most of the images were created before 1923. Many costume categories are covered (clothing & dress, fashion drawings, fur fashions, gloves, hats, hairdressing, hosiery, shoes) but additional categories cover American life and history.
Theatrecrafts: Entertainment Technology Resources
Links, resources and information about many areas of technical theatre.
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is the world's leading museum of art and design. Our aim is to enrich people’s lives by promoting knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the designed world. Search the Collections is a working database providing online access to over 1.1 million catalogue records and over 293,000 images of objects in our collection. Records vary in quality and reliability and we are continually enriching and updating the database. New text and images are added each month.