LARC5053 History of Land Preservation: Rohwer Cemetery
This guide will assist students conduct background research for the HALS study of the cemetery located at the site of the Rohwer Japanese Internment camp.
This database administered by the Library of Congress provides access to a comprehensive and growing collection of Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) records that document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes.
The ASLA is the national professional association for Landscape architects. The website offers membership information, as well as resources for research and professional development.
A digital library of images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Users can search for or browse images by creator, time period, genre, type of work (e.g., sculpture, jewelry, architectural drawing), or by region where created. Artstor images are contributed by museums, libraries, and universities worldwide and are intended for educational use.
On first login from off-campus, you will be prompted to link or create an Artstor personal account. More info.
Covers: 1963-. A comprehensive source for U.S. and Canadian political, social, diplomatic, and economic history. Indexes and abstracts journal articles as well as books, book reviews, theses, and dissertations.
Covers: 1800s-. A collection of core journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics. Most journals are digitized back to the first date of issue. Note that most titles in these archival collections are only digitized after a three-to-five-year time lag so that recent issues are not always available through JSTOR.
JSTOR now includes ebooks, images, and primary sources as well as journals.
Guides from Other Universities
Here are some library and research guides from other universities that could be helpful for research in Landscape Architecture and related fields.