Explore the Rockefeller Library Collections

Catalog Search

Through a partnership with William & Mary, searching our library catalog will retrieve books, audiovisual materials, rare books, & manuscripts at both Rockefeller Library and William & Mary Libraries. You'll also find eBooks and articles from many of our online databases.

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Online Resources

Our online resources include research databases, e-journals, and the library's digital library. The growing digital library includes numerous issues of the Virginia Gazette, hundreds of Colonial Williamsburg Research Reports, online library exhibitions, and more. Please note that some of the research databases and other subscription-based resources may only be accessed by onsite users.

• The Colonial Williamsburg Journal (Featured Articles)
• Colonial Williamsburg Foundation publications (Omeka)
• Colonial Williamsburg Research Reports
• Digital Exhibits
• Manuscripts, Finding Aids, and Special Collections
• Research Databases A_Z
• The Virginia Gazette
• Visual Resources Collections(Omeka)
• York County Project

Guides and Indexes

Guides and Indexes include topical bibliographies and searchable indexes to frequently used journals and Special Collections materials including microfilm.

• Collection Guides
• Manuscripts guide(pdf)
• Microfilm guide(pdf)
• Photo collection index
• Photocopied manuscripts guide(pdf)
• Transcripts guide(pdf)
• Periodical Indexes
• Colonial Homes (pdf)
• Country Life (database)
• CW Interpreter (pdf)
• Trades Index to Auction Catalogues (database)
• Trend & Tradition Magazine (database)
• CW Journal (database and featured articles)
• Virginia Cavalcade (database)
• Topical bibliographies
• Black Residents of Williamsburg
• Citizenship
• Genealogical Research
• African American Virginians
• Revolutionary War Virginians
• Seventeenth-century Virginians
• Williamsburg-area Virginians
• Military in the American Revolution
• Religious Freedom
• Spies & Spycraft in the American Revolution
• Women in the Evolution of America