Graphic Arts : Online Resources

Prints | Stamp Collecting | Sports Cards

When in doubt, try http://www.google.com. Try key words like "prints," "stamp auctions," "stamp dealers," etc.

The listings below just scratch the surface of this exploding media universe.

Prints

Prints & Printmaking

Google Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Visual_Arts/Printmaking/

Annotated listing of sites from the "largest human-edited directory on the web."

Yahoo! Search Directory: Printmaking
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Printmaking/

Classified and annotated directory of websites, from the oldest and best-known online navigational guide to the Web.

Printmaking Links
http://www.mtsu.edu/~art/printmaking/

Compiled by Middle Tennessee State University.

General Printmaking
http://www.philaprintshop.com/library.html#General

From The Philadelphia Printshop, Ltd. Site includes

• Dictionary of printmaking terms,
• Glossary of printmaking nomenclature and abbreviations,
  and
• What is a Print? A discussion of prints and print processes.

"What is a Print?"
http://www.moma.org/whatisaprint/flash.html

Interactive presentation of printmaking techniques, from New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Prints Collections

Museums & Galleries
http://www.mtsu.edu/~art/printmaking/museums.html

Links compiled by Middle Tennessee State University.

Spencer Museum of Art Printroom, University of Kansas
http://www.ku.edu/~sma/prints.html

Included is information on Print Connoisseurship, with basic information about marks, inscriptions, and monograms on prints, and information about basic conservation issues.

University of Montana: Printmaking
http://www2.umt.edu/art/print.htm

Includes examples of students' work.

The Museum of the City of New York: Prints and Photographs Collection
http://www.mcny.org/Collections/photo/prints.htm

About the museum's collection.

Kupferstichkabinett
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/kk/e/s.html

Berlin's Museum of Prints and Drawings.

San Diego Museum of Arts Collections
http://www.sdmart.org/collections.html

Click on the "Prints & Drawings" link.

Philadelphia Museum of Art: Prints, Drawings and Photographs
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/prints_drawings_photo/

About the museum's collection.

Library of Congress : Prints & Photographs Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

Provides "access to about 60% of the still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division, as well as some images found in other units of the Library."

Stamp Collecting

AskPhil
http://www.askphil.org

Non-commercial, totally free; basic information and addresses, Web and non-Web.

American Philatelic Society
http://www.stamps.org

Web site of the American Philatelic Society and of the American Philatelic Research Library.

Linns.com
http://www.linns.com

Offered by the weekly standard journal in North America, Linn's Stamp News.

Stamp Domain
http://www.stampdomain.com

United Kingdom site for stamp facts by country, dealers, auction houses, commercial.

Sports Cards

American Memory: Basebal Cards, 1887-1914
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

Library of Congress baseball cards

Collect.com: Sports
http://www.collect.com/sports/default.asp

From Krause Publications, a publishing house for hobbies, including sports cards, paper money, and stamps. Some of the site services require free registration; others are available with paid subscription only.