The Social Security Death Index is a freely available resource that provides death dates for Americans who had social security numbers. Another source is Ancestry.com, which the Ryerson librarians can search for you.

The Social Security Death Index is a freely available resource that provides death dates for Americans who had social security numbers. Another source is Ancestry.com, which the Ryerson librarians can search for you.
Provides coverage of more than 100 design and design-related journals most of which have ceased publication, but which are distinctly important to the development of design concepts in the early 20th century. DAR provides broad, international coverage on a wide range of subjects in the fields of industrial and product design, architecture, interior design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, jewelry, metalsmithing, fashion and textile design, graphic design, and others.
Covers more than 100 journals and yearbooks, including important titles that have not been indexed or abstracted before. It provides information about more than 8,000 designers and design-related organizations that were influential in the 20th century world of design, including over 1,000 female designers.
Contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals on industrial and product design, architecture, interior design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, jewellery, metalsmithing, fashion and textile design, graphic design, etc.
Includes digitized nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century decorative and fine arts journals. Also includes a bibliography of useful web sites in international design and art.
Provides access to citations and abstracts from all titles in the Digital Dissertations database. Titles published since 1997 have 24 page previews available. No full-text dissertations available.