A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.

This index has been compiled as a quick reference guide to biographies of 9,052 professional and amateur artists active in Canada from the seventeenth century to the present. The artists represent 42 professional categories, from animation to topography. In addition to 8,261 Canadian artists, the Index has 391 British, 300 American, and 100 European artists, all of whom spent part of their careers in Canada. Each entry provides the artist's name, date and place of birth and death (or years the artist flourished, if birth and death dates are not available), the nationality (if not Canadian), type of artist (major medium media used), and sources in which biographical information may be found. Several hundred cross-references link the various names used by some artists during the course of their careers.

Over 9000 entries. Pt. 1 covers from earliest times through the 18th century; includes all known Jewish physicians. Pt. 2 covers the 19th and 20th centuries; includes Jewish physicians prominent as teachers, clinicians, practitioners, and advancers of medical science. Entries include name, dates, short annotations, and coded references to sources (listed separately at end).

An index to those masters, mates, surgeons and pursers of the East India Company's Maritime service 1600-1834 giving their names, some dates of birth and parent's names, ships served on and the season of the voyage, rank or position, and for some the date of death is included.

Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.

A massive work--forty years in the making--there's never been a reference book like this for the state of New Jersey. The 100,000 biographies recorded by Mr. Sinclair, were extracted from no fewer than 2,000 volumes scattered among collective sources, not single-volume biographies. This fact alone establishes this book as the key reference work for New Jersey biography. It hardly needs to be said that Mr. Sinclair's book will prove to be an invaluable tool for genealogists given the obvious connection between biography and family history, as well as the fact that a number of the compiler's 237 sources contain not only biographies but genealogical sketches.

An important reference source for scholars and students of modern Chinese art, collectors, museums and libraries, dealers and auction houses. It includes biographical entries for approximately 800 Chinese artists who grew up or were trained in China and who are likely to be represented in collections, exhibitions, and auctions within and outside China.