Descriptive standards:

 

Graphics records in WolfPAC follow descriptive standards set forth in the second edition of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2, 2002 rev.) informed by Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections (GIHC), except for records migrated from our old card catalog as part of retrospective conversion. Subject and name headings are assigned using the Library of Congress’s name and subject authority files with additional subject and genre headings for graphics selected from Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Subject Terms and Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Genre and Physical Characteristics Terms.

 

Bibliographies cited in graphics records:

 

British Museum. Dept. of Prints & Drawings. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. (London Trustees of the British Museum, 1870-1954).

 

Cresswell, Donald. The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints: A Checklist of 1765-1790 Graphics in the Library of Congress. (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1975).

 

Cresswell, Donald H. and Christopher Lane. Prints of Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Print Shop featuring the Wohl Collection. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Print Shop, 1990).

 

Deak, Gilda Gloria. Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States. (Princeton: Princeton University, 1988).

 

Fowble, E. McSherry. Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880: A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection. (Charlottesville: Published for the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum by the University Press of Virginia, 1987).

 

Lane, Christopher. A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views (Pittsburgh: Frick Art & Historical Center, 2008).

 

Murrell, William. A History of American Graphic Humor. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933). 2 vols.

 

Nevins, Allan and Frank Weitenkampf. A Century of Political Cartoons: Caricature in the United States from 1800 to 1900. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944).

 

Phillips, P. Lee. A Descriptive List of Maps and Views of Philadelphia in the Library of Congress 1683-1865. (Philadelphia, 1926).

 

Reilly, Bernard. American Political Prints, 1766-1876: A Catalog of the Collections in the Library of Congress. (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1991).

 

Reps, John W. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America : Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of their Work, 1825-1925. (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1984).

 

Snyder, Martin P. City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia before 1800. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975).

 

Snyder, Martin P. Mirror of America: The Developing Life of Philadelphia Seen in Engravings 1801-1876. (Gladwyne, Pa.: M.P. Snyder, 1996).

 

Wainwright, Nicholas B. Philadelphia in the Romantic Age of Lithography: An Illustrated history of early lithography in Philadelphia with a descriptive list of Philadelphia scenes made by Philadelphia lithographers before 1860. (Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958).

 

Weitenkampf, Frank . Political Caricature in the United States in Separately Published Cartoons. (New York: The New York Public Library, 1953).

 

Wheat, James Clement and Brun, Christian F . Maps and Charts Published in America Before 1800: A Bibliography. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969).