Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Mon - Fri 8:30-4:30

• Cate Cooney, printed and rare books, ccooney@winterthur.org
• E. Richard McKinstry, manuscripts and printed ephemera, ermckinstry@winterthur.org
• Bert Denker, Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, bdenker@winterthur.org
• Heather Clewell, Winterthur Archives, hclewell@winterthur.org

General reference, Reference@winterthur.org

The Winterthur Library is a research center for the study of American art and material culture whose resources for advanced study include more than 70,000 volumes and approximately 500,000 manuscripts and visual images. The holdings in the rare book collection are particularly strong for architecture and design pattern books, American and British manufacturers' and retailers' trade catalogues, descriptions of craft techniques, advice literature, periodicals that promote or describe lifestyles, and city directories and design. Notable collections include the Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., Research Library of American Painting, whose manuscripts holdings sketchbooks, drawings, journals and letters of Thomas Sully, Albert Bierstadt, and Joseph Pennell, among others; the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts & Printed Ephemera relating to American craftsmen and artists, architecture and decorative arts made or used in America; and the Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection. The Winterthur Archives include the papers of Henry Francis du Pont and his father, Colonel Henry Algernon du Pont, Winterthur Farm records, and the early administrative records of the museum. The Decorative Arts Photographic Collection contains more than 150,000 photographs of decorative art objects made or used in America prior to 1914 and located in both public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.