Use UP Library Search to find books, streaming videos, online resources, journal articles, and much more (Search Tips). See our Finding Books on the Shelf handout for help locating books in the building, and our requesting Clark Library / Summit Items online handout for help requesting to have items brought to the service desk for you to pick up.
When searching for synonyms, OR must be capitalized:
example: England OR English
Search by century: use numbers (19th century) instead of words: (nineteenth century)
Search by the name for your time period (Elizabethan, Victorian, Restoration, etc)
1. Use the search box in the "Books for Visual Inspiration" box to search for: Pittsburgh pictorial.
2. Find a book that looks relevant, go to the lower floor of the library to find it and bring it back to the Classroom.
3. Be prepared to show several images from the book and how you found this book.
Try adding the following words to your search to find books that include images:
The * will help you to find variations of those words (illustr* will find: illustration, illustrations, illustrated)
Books in these locations in the library are likely to contain many images:
Everyday Fashions (1909-1940s), as pictured in Sears catalogs
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