NINES Discussion: New Smithsonian Collections Search Center http://www.nines.org/forum/view_thread?thread=18 nineteenth-century studies online en-us NINES http://www.nines.org/images/nines/sm_site_image.gif http://www.nines.org 83 83 The Smithsonian has launched a ... http://www.nines.org/forum/object?comment=36 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; ">The Smithsonian has launched a new Collections Search Center on their website. You can search "over 2 million records with 265,900 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives &amp; libraries":<br><br><span><a class="ext_link" href="http://collections.si.edu/search/" target="_blank" style="background-image: url(http://www.nines.org/images/external_link.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; color: #a60000; text-decoration: none; background-position: 100% 50%; ">http://collections.si.edu/search/</a></span><br><br>A date slider in the faceted browser allows you to limit searches to the 1800s or to any other decade-by-decade range. Putting in "victorian" as a search term, though, I turned up some marvelous stuff, including a series of Pythonesque Victorian collages.</span>