The site uses museum collections, scholarly databases, preservation guidance, archives, legal resources, and marketplace categories to explain research methods and historical context.
American decorative arts and material culture
- Winterthur Museum Collection — furniture, ceramics, glass, metals, textiles, tools, paintings, prints, clocks, toys, and other American material culture.
- Winterthur Museum Collections — overview of American decorative and fine arts made or used in America.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Furniture, 1730–1790 — Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture and related construction and style context.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Nineteenth-Century American Silver.
- National Museum of American History: Home and Community Life Collections — ceramics, glass, household and community material culture.
- Winterthur e-resources — links to maker, regional, decorative-arts, and material-culture databases.
Legal and ethical research
- National Park Service NAGPRA program — federal framework for Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and cultural patrimony in institutional collections.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service import/export information — wildlife material and regulated species considerations.
Marketplace categories
Source policy: Museum and archive records establish context for documented objects. They do not automatically authenticate or value a privately listed object that merely looks similar.