Historic Preservation

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Content includes: Archaeology, Architecture, Architectural design, City planning, Furniture and decoration, Historic preservation, History of architecture, Interior design, Landscape architecture

Contents include: Advertising, packaging and product design, Architecture, Crafts, Ceramics, glass and jewelry, Industrial design, Graphic design, Fashion and textiles, Sustainable design, Furniture and interior design, Fiber arts

Core scholarly journals, books: humanities, social sciences, sciences

Searches the following ProQuest databases: ABI/Inform Collection, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Design & Applied Arts Index, eBook Central, Historical New York Times newspaper, Global Newsstream, ProQuest Research Library and the Vogue Archive.

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