Thursday 29 September 2011

John Johnson Collection digital projects

(c) Proquest
The website contains links to our digital projects:
The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera (free in UK to HE, FE, Schools and Public Libraries). Themes: Advertising; Crime, Murders and Executions; 19th Century Entertainment; Popular Prints; Booktrade

Oxford Digitial Library: 18th century Entertainment; Writing Blanks and Board Games

VADS: this site includes Political Cartoons and Trades and Professions Prints from the John Johnson Collection

Toyota Project: Motor Cars; and selected images of other forms of transport

Ballads (all Bodleian Ballads, including those from the John Johnson Collection)

Tuesday 27 September 2011

John Johnson Collection website

(c) Bodleian Libraries
It would seem strange not to include our own resources!
The John Johnson Collection website contains indexes to the original collection, arranged alphabetically and by main heading.  You can search our item-level catalogue and find links to our digital projects (to be outlined in my next post).