Viewbooks
Subtitle: window into America
Contributors: Columbia University. Libraries
Publisher: Columbia University Libraries
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Pictorial works; Exhibitions; Cities and towns; Avery Library
Description: With generous support from the CLIR Hidden Collections grant project, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library was able to catalog its long-held, but long-hidden, collection of American viewbooks. This multi-year project revealed the depth of Avery's extensive viewbook collection -- more than 4,000 items representing big cities and small towns, famous landmarks and ones long since forgotten - a unique historic catalog of our nation's changing landscape. This online exhibit showcases a selection of 50 viewbooks from Avery's collection.