Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications from the collections of the Museum Libraries and Museum Archives.
This collection contains rare, valuable, and important works held in the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Included in this collection is the 19th century British serial The Chromolithograph, a journal of “art, literature, decoration and the accomplishments.” It lives up to this broad self-description by …
On January 19, 1946, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a luncheon to commemorate its 75th anniversary. The speakers touched upon the history of the Museum, its place in New York, America and the world, and the development of future plans for the Museum.
This collection includes photographs of the luncheon and sound recordings …
Digital and digitized auction sales catalogs. Please note that access to some catalogs may be restricted to computers within The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Transcriptions of selected Metropolitan Museum of Art/Antenna Audio guided tours. This is a pilot project published for testing purposes.
Items from the Museum Libraries about bookbinding and book collecting. Photographs of our fine bindings were taken by The Photo Studio at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Images from selected photographic albums and finding aids to various archival collections in the Cloisters Library & Archives.
Texts and images from the collections of the Costume Institute and the Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Access to some materials in this collection is restricted to computers within The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fashion plates, 1790-1929 is a collection of the contents of eighty-five binders …
Eighteenth century European pamphlets on dandyism, fashion and textiles from the Irene Lewisohn Costume Library in the Costume Institute.
Forty-two 18th century French auction catalogs published in the 1770s and 1780s, totaling 2,850 pages. Among the oldest sale catalogs in the Watson Library collection, they are bound together in four volumes and many are heavily hand-annotated.
Digitizing these catalogs not only vastly increases access to the content, but helps …
Texts and images from the collections of the Costume Institute and the Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Access to some materials in this collection is restricted to computers within The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fashion plates, 1790-1929 is a collection of the contents of eighty-five binders …
This collection contains finding aids for archival collections and indexes held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives and Libraries.
898 catalogs and checklists published by Knoedler bewteen 1869 and 1946 have been scanned, comprising almost 14,000 pages of content.
Knoedler & Company, established in 1857, was among the most important art dealers in New York City. Representing artists with an international scope, Knoedler’s strength was in exhibiting and …
Kōgei is a Japanese periodical devoted to decorative arts, published in 120 issues between 1931 and 1951.
A collaborative project to digitize the exhibition checklists and pamphlets of the Macbeth Gallery, held by the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Art Reference Library. The combined collection numbers over 450 unique items published between 1895 and 1953.
The Macbeth Gallery was the first New …
Manuscripts from the Thomas J. Watson Library and Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives.
The Frank Edwin Elwell Papers are comprised of two sets of documents assembled by Elwell and described below. Frank Edwin Elwell (1858-1922) was an American sculptor whose work was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition (1893) and the Pan American …
Catalogs of Pictorialist photography exhibitions held between 1888 and 1914. These catalogs were donated to The Metropolitan Museum by Alfred Stieglitz and are housed in the collections of the Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library, Department of Photographs.
These works from the Thomas J. Watson Library represent a wide range of themes and formats, including Soviet caricature, arms and armor, 19th-century photograph albums, collection and exhibition catalogs.
The Thomas J. Watson Library is a world-renowned research collection with over 675,000 volumes. It is The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s central research library, and its mission is to support the research activities of the Museum staff; in addition, it serves an international community of scholars. Holdings reflect the Museum’s encyclopedic collections, with emphasis on European and American art, architecture, and decorative arts, ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Asian, and Islamic art, as well as an extensive collection of clippings and other ephemera relating to the Museum’s history.
The primary mission of the Watson Library Digitization Initiative is to expand access to the Library’s rare and unique materials by developing, supporting, and promoting a distinctive digital collection of these items.
The initiative will target materials that fall outside the parameters of other major digitization efforts, such as Google Books or the Internet Archive, and make them accessible to support the scholarly endeavors of Metropolitan Museum of Art staff and an international community of researchers.
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