The Metropolitan Museum of Art relaunched their website recently, and for a history nerd like me it’s like getting a new toy. The Met has one of the best collections in the world and has done an impressive job of digitizing it. You can search the collection here, and find high-quality images of everything from shoes to swords to snuffboxes. So far I’ve just been using it to do a little 18th century outfit planning (see, I even picked out a coat for my date), but I’m sure I’ll actually start doing more serious research soon. After I’m done looking at shoes. Blue ones, obviously.
Hammond-Harwood House
The mission of the Hammond-Harwood House Association is to preserve and to interpret the architecturally significant Hammond-Harwood House Museum and its collection of fine and decorative arts, and to explore the diverse social history associated with its occupants, both free and enslaved, for the purposes of education and appreciation.