Library Guides: Historic Preservation Library Guide: Start here.

How to use this guide

Designed for students and faculty in the Historic Preservation program at the Tulane School of Architecture, this guide facilitates access and understanding of the major resources available to you through Tulane University Libraries.

Here, you will find information on identifying and using background sources, scholarly literature in books and articles, visual resources, archival and primary sources, and support citing your work.

Popular resources

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window Journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Also contains references to obituary citations.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window Full-text and indexing for art journals, magazines and books. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design. Also includes over 63,000 images.
Artstor This link opens in a new window A complete image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context beyond the confines of your discipline. All images are from reliable sources and rights-cleared for use in education and research. Personal registration is required to download images. Once registered, you can access core collections remotely. Artstor remote access usually last 120-days but, for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis, this feature is set to 365-days.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window Scholarship on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present day.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 This link opens in a new window Access large-scale maps of Louisiana towns and cities. Manipulate maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.
Louisiana Fire Insurance Maps Online This link opens in a new window Fire Insurance Maps online (FIMo), is Historical Information Gatherers' research portal to find and view high-definition, color Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps for Louisiana showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information.