About the Project

• IMLS Reports
• Outcomes-Based Evaluation
• Press Coverage
• Project Credits
• Project Narrative
• Publicity & Outreach

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Galleries

• Abraham Lincoln, Civil War President
• The Artistic Collaboration between Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) & Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904)
• Black and White: Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Race in Post-Civil War Literature
• Booker T. Washington: Author, Educator, Advocate
• Confederate Imprints: Publishing in the Civil War South
• From Domestic Goddesses to Suffragists: The Story of Women Told on Bookbindings, 1820-1920
• Founded in Handcraft: The Roots of Publishers' Bindings
• Gallery of Book-Cloth Grain Patterns
• Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century Part I: Thomas Nelson Page's Literature of the Lost Cause
• Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part II: Ellen Glasgow' s Feminist Approach to the "Old South"
• Heroes of the Lost Cause
• Indians, the Frontier, and the West in American Bookbindings
• Lafcadio Hearn: 19th-Century World Citizen
• Louisa May Alcott: Little Woman, Big Pen
• "Moonlight and Magnolias": History and Literature in the Big Easy
• "The Most Written About War in History": The Civil War in Fact and Fiction
• Black and White: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Race in Post-Civil War Literature
• Progress & Invention: Representations of the Industrial Revolution in America as Reflected in Bookbindings
• Publishers’ Bindings & Their Designers: Making Their Mark
• Publishers' Bindings by Decade: Galleries and Essays
• Publishers' Bindings from the Max Kade Institute
• Publishers' Bindings from the Wade Hall Collection
• Silver & Gold: The Art of Metal Stamping
• Son of a Comet, Star of the West: The Life and Literature of “Mark Twain”
• Southern Writers and Local Color: A Regional Twist on a National Trend
• True Tales of Bondage and Freedom: Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives
• Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Ninteenth Century Bestseller
• Understanding Visual Literacy through Publishers' Bindings Online

Galleries of Artistic Styles and Movements

• Art Deco
• Art Nouveau
• Arts and Crafts
• Eastlake
• Egyptian Revival
• Gothic Revival
• Japonisme
• Neoclassicism
• Orientalism
• Poster Style
• Rococo Revival

Help

• Tutorial: Keyword Searching and Emailing a Record

Home Page

• Lower-resolution Home Page

Publicity & Outreach

• PBO Bookmark
• PBO Calendar

Research Tools

• Bibliography of Online Resources
• Bibliography of Print Resources
• Bindings Designers in PBO: Biographies and Examples
• Binding Designers in PBO: Prominent Designers
• Armstrong, Margaret Neilson
• Bradley, Will
• Cleland, Thomas Maitland
• Decorative Designers
• Feely, John
• Hapgood Jr., Theodore Brown
• Hazenplug, Frank
• Jordan, William James
• Sacker, Amy M.
• Whitman, Sarah de St. Prix Wyman
• Binding Designers in PBO: Unidentified Designers, Illustrators, Die stamp cutters, etc.
• Gallery of Book-Cloth Grain Patterns
• Controlled Vocabulary for Subject Headings
• Glossary
• Other Online Resources
• Publishers Across the Land
• Publishers' Bindings by Decade
• Publishers' Bindings Galleries
• UW-Madison's Scandinavian-American Publisher Holdings, 1840-1920

Search the Collection

• Search Using Keywords
• Search Using Subject Headings

Teaching Tools

• Controlled Vocabulary for Subject Headings
• Tutorials
• Essays and Galleries by Subject
• Sample Lesson Plans and Teachers' Resources by Subject

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