How to use the finding aids
Not all Johnson material has finding aids, so do not assume that because you do not find material relevant to your research, none exists. Please contact the Librarian of the John Johnson Collection.
There are four main finding aids:
1. Indexes
There are around 680 subject headings in the Collection. The indexes are linked from two lists: a) alphabetic b) by broad theme (e.g. all the Advertisement sections grouped together). Of course, many further virtual subjects are available by the cross-referencing tools in our online catalogues. For example, you can search by artist (e.g. Dudley Hardy) or subject (e.g. cats) or product (e.g. pounce or writing desks) or place (e.g. Exeter or Vauxhall Gardens).
2. The Johnson online catalogue
This contains item-level records for those sections catalogued and digitised so far. Images are linked from the shelfmarks where available, except for the project The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera (ProQuest) where images are only available via the ProQuest site.
3. The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera (ProQuest)
This major project, funded by JISC and partnered by ProQuest gives access to 65,000 items in the John Johnson Collection from the following areas: Advertising: 19th century Entertainment; Booktrade; Popular Prints, and Crime, Murders and Executions. While the records are also on our online catalogue, the accompanying images are under licence to the ProQuest site.
4. Other Projects
There are two stand-alone projects (Toyota and Ballads). Records for other projects are also available through the Johnson website, but there are often advantages in using the external sites (image manipulations, cross-searchability, etc.)
More information about the project links to the Johnson subject headings is available on the Digitised Sections of the Collection page.
