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Department of Research Collections

BGC Affiliates

The library is open to BGC students, faculty, and staff during these summer hours:

Monday–Thursday: 8 am–9 pm 

Outside Visitors

Outside visitors to the library must have a confirmed appointment during staffed hours. Appointments will resume on August 20.

The BGC Department of Research Collections comprises the Library, Study Collection, and Archive, representing a comprehensive range of diverse research resources across a range of media in support of the advanced scholarly study of material culture. Bringing these three entities together aligns the institution’s collection with its approach to research, which challenges traditional boundaries, centers the object, and emphasizes interdisciplinarity. To learn more about each facet of the DRC, click on the links below.


Svenskt Silver, 1500-1850 (Swedish Silver, 1500-1850)
Lisa Skogh (BGC MA ‘05) and Sofia Rudling Silverstolpe
Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 2009
BGC Monograph Stacks NK 7161 .A1 N37 2009



Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors, 1970-2010
Judith Gura (BGC MA ‘99)
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2012
BGC Monograph Stacks NK 1390 .G87 2012




Wild: Fashion Untamed
Andrew Bolton with contributions by Shannon Bell-Price (BGC PhD candidate) and Elyssa Da Cruz
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004
BGC Monograph Stacks TT 502 .B55 2004




MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan: Typographic Tastemakers of the Late Nineteenth Century
Doug Clouse (BGC MA ‘07)
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008
BGC Monograph Stacks Z 250 .A2 C58 2008



Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film
Michelle Tolini Finamore (BGC PhD ‘10)
Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
BGC Monograph Stacks PN 1995.9 .C56 F58 2013




Building Bartlesville, 1945-2000
Scott W. Perkins (BGC MA ‘02, BGC PhD candidate)
Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2008
BGC Monograph Stacks NA 735 .B37 P47 2008




Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era
Ezra Shales (BGC PhD ‘06)
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rivergate Books, 2010
BGC Monograph Stacks Z 733 .N414 S53 2010



Pioneers of Contemporary Glass: Highlights from the Barbara and Dennis DuBois Collection
Cindi Strauss with Rebecca Elliot and Susie J. Silbert (BGC MA ‘11)
Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009
BGC Monograph Stacks NK 5103 .D83 S77 2009



Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875-1900
Amelia Peck and Carol Irish (BGC MA ‘99)
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001
BGC Monograph Stacks NK8898.W48 A4 2001




For Kith and Kin: Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski (BGC MA ‘06)
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012
BGC Monograph Stacks NK 805 .A78 2012






We Work in a Fragile Material at Skoklosters Slott
Johan Berggren et al.; forward by Maria Perers (BGC MA ‘03, BGC PhD candidate)
Bålsta: Skoklosters Slott, 2004
BGC Monograph Stacks N 7088.6 W4 2004






Dish: 813 Colorful, Wonderful Dinner Plates
Shax Riegler (BGC MA ’07, BGC PhD candidate)
New York: Artisan, 2011
BGC Monograph Stacks NK 4695 .P55 R54 2011




Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting
David Revere McFadden with Jennifer Scanlan (BGC MA ‘04) and Jennifer Steifle Edwards
Woodbridge: ACC Editions; New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2008
BGC Monograph Stacks NK 9401 .N4 M34 2008