Research Guide: Set Design

Here is a list of Websites which may be useful in set design:

Image Search Engines

• Search-22: Picture and Image Search Engines (www.search-22.com/downloads/images.php)
• Flickr photo archive (www.flickr.com)
• Getty Images keywords searchable (creative.gettyimages.com/source/frontdoor/DefaultImages.aspx)
• Google Images (images.google.com)
• PicSearch (www.picsearch.com)
• Yahoo! Image Search (search.yahoo.com/images)

Set Design & Props

• The Development of Scenic Spectacle by Frank Mohler (www1.appstate.edu/orgs/spectacle)
• Globe Theatre Props (www.globe-theatre.org.uk/globe-theatre-props.htm)
• PropPeople.com keyword searchable (www.proppeople.com)
• ScenoGraphics (www.scenographics.com/html/highlights.html)
• Theatre House: Accessories and Props (www.theatrehouse.net/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=THH&Category_Code=CostAcc)

Architecture History

• Architectural Styles Index by Ingolf Vogeler (www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w367/styles/styles.htm)
• Architectural Styles of America by Dr. Tom Paradis (jan.ucc.nau.edu/~twp/architecture)
• Architecture: Houses in the Google Directory (www.google.com/Top/Arts/Architecture/Building_Types/Houses)
• Bricks and Brass: Design by Style (www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/deshist/deshist.htm)

Interior Design & Decorative Arts

• American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/american_decorative_arts)
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (decorativearts.library.wisc.edu)
• Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York (www.cooperhewitt.org)
• Timeline of Art History (TOAH) Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm)
• Victoria & Albert Museum in London (www.vam.ac.uk)

Historic Houses in Connecticut & New York

• Bartow-Pell Mansion Greek Revival style mansion in the Bronx (www.historichousetrust.org/museum.php?msmid=1)
• Boscobel mansion and museum of the Federal period at Garrison NY(www.boscobel.org/main.html)
• Dyckman Farmhouse in Manhattan (www.dyckmanfarmhouse.org/My_Homepage_Files/Page12.html)
• Fraunces Tavern Museum in Lower Manhattan (www.frauncestavernmuseum.org)
• Harrison House Museum and Barn in Branford CT (www.branfordhistory.org/harrisonhouse.html)
• Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park NY (www.nps.gov/hofr/index.htm)
• Lefferts Historic House in Brooklyn (www.historichousetrust.org/museum.php?msmid=6)
• Lyndhurst Gothic Revival style mansion on Jay Gould estate (lyndhurst.wordpress.com)
• Mark Twain House and Museum Gilded Age mansion in Harford (www.marktwainhouse.org)
• Montgomery Place Classical revival mansion (www.hudsonvalley.org/montgomeryplace/index.htm)
• Morris-Jumel Mansion pre-revolutionary home in Harlem Heights (www.historichousetrust.org/museum.php?msmid=8)
• The Old Stone House colonial Dutch farmhouse in Brooklyn (www.theoldstonehouse.org)
• Philipsburg Manor Anglo-Dutch colonial manor in Sleepy Hollow, NY (www.hudsonvalley.org/philipsburg/index.htm)
• Roseland Cottage Gothic Revival home in Woodstock CT (www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/roseland.htm)
• Sunnyside Washington Irving's home in Tarrytown NY (www.hudsonvalley.org/sunnyside/index.htm)
• Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side (www.tenement.org)
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Manhattan brownstone at East 20th Street (www.nps.gov/thrb)
• Van Cortland Manor 18th-century manor house and ferry house in Tarrytown NY (www.hudsonvalley.org/vancortlandt/index.htm)
• Vanderbilt Mansion Gilded Age mansion and grounds in Hyde Park NY (www.nps.gov/vama)
• Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum 17th century Dutch farmhouse in Brooklyn (www.historichousetrust.org/museum.php?msmid=21)

For tips on citation format, please see Diana Hacker's Humanities: Documenting Sources (bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e) or MLA Formatting and Style courtesy of the OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab (owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01).

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Example: interior decoration--history--20th century (press RETURN or ENTER)

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Related headings:

Architecture (Subdivided geographically)

Architecture, Baroque

Architecture, Classical

Architecture, Colonial (Subdivided geographically)

Architecture, Domestic (Subdivided geographically)

Architecture, Georgian

Architecture, Gothic

Architecture, Medieval

Architecture, Modern (Subdivided by century: 17th to 20th)

Architecture, Renaissance

Architecture, Victorian

Castles (Subdivided geographically)

Gothic revival (Architecture)

Antiques in interior decoration (Subdivided geographically)

Chairs

Chandeliers

Collectibles (Subdivided geographically)

Color in interior decoration

Decoration and ornament (Subdivided geographically)

Doorways

Draperies in interior decoration

Fireplaces

Floor coverings

Flower arrangement in interior decoration

Furniture (Subdivided geographically)

Furniture--History (Subdivided by period)

Furniture styles

House furnishings (Subdivided geographically)

Kitchens

Lighting, Architectural and decorative

Rugs in interior decoration

Staircases

Tapestry

Upholstery

Wall covering

Wallpaper

Windows in interior decoration

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery

Projected scenery

Scene painters

Set designers

Stage lighting

Stage machinery

Stage props

Theaters--Models

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Academic Search Premier in EBSCOhost

Coverage: 1990 - present (earlier for many publications)

Location: Under Articles & Databases: Most Popular at the WCSU Libraries Homepage.

Scope: Indexes approximately 8,000 newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in most fields, including language and literature, with 4,000 available in full-text.

Bridgeman Art Library

Coverage: 360,000 high-quality images from galleries, museums, and private collections worldwide.

Location: Under Article & Databases: A-Z on the WCSU Libraries Homepage.

Scope: Keyword searching retrieves images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, decorative art, and more.

JSTOR

Coverage: Issue number one to within 2-5 years of present

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WorldCat via OCLC FirstSearch

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