Images: Digital Collections

Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

Links and tools to aid in finding medical images to print or download.

This collection contains over 8,800 maps and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.

These digitized exhibition catalogues are divided into two sections: the Detroit Museum of Art (1891-1919) and the Detroit Institute of Arts (1919-present).

Over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.

Explore artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

contains over 13,500 photographic images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800.

Users around the world share and organize images via Flickr. The website now hosts over three billion images.

The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Since 2000, documentation from the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) has been added to the holdings. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories.

This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web.

A comprehensive database from the French Ministry of Culture of objects in all French museums. The site is in French, but is easily searchable and provides basic catalog information for each object. It is a good place to find images of drawings and prints

About 6,500 objects, highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, can be accessed online through this site.

Over 330,000 of the 450,000 objects owned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts are available for viewing in the online collections database, many of which have images. Basic catalog information as well as provenance history is included.

The Middle East Department of the University of Chicago Library maintains an archive of early photographs of the Middle East. These photographs have been scanned and made available on the World Wide Web.

This collection contains over 100 rare maps and books from the University of California’s East Asian Library. Most noteworthy in the collection are a range of Japanese city maps which date back 300 years.

MoMA has more than 75,000 modern and contemporary artworks from their collections available online.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 376,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more

This is a collection of 30,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

This database includes contributions from the University of Cincinnati, Case Western University & the Akron Art Museum.

The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of archival visual records that are part of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's main catalog.

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide.

A carefully selected subset from an encyclopedia of US architecture, containing peer-reviewed essays, photos, and maps for more than 4500 structures in 1783 cities and all 50 states.

Open sources archives and image collections.

The online catalog & image database of the Architecture Visual Resources Library University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas Jefferson Architectural Drawings, [manuscript], circa 1772-1819
From the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

An educational archive for the documentation, preservation, and promotion of residential Modernist architecture. It is the largest open digital archive in America for 20th-century Modernist residential design.

You may search here for over 20,000 works and over 26,000 images from the V&A collections. The database covers a wide range of objects, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles.

This site has 505 files, one for each of the paintings exhibited in the actual Uffizi gallery in Florence, plus approximately 400 images of these files.

VADS is based at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design aims to provide collections of visual arts digital resources and advice for their creation and use.

VIA is a growing online union catalog documenting the arts, material culture, and social history.

A virtual museum & searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15,400 reproductions.

Yale has more than 250,000 images available through a collective catalog. The goal is to make high quality digital images of Yale's vast cultural heritage collections in the public domain openly and freely available.