Visual Resources
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowArtstor is a digital image library that provides over 1.6 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from around the globe and across time periods. Included are images from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
- Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new windowThe Berg Fashion Library provides access to the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, e-books, e-journals, a museum directory, reference works, images, foundational works on fashion across the globe, since 1600.
- THE BETTMANN ARCHIVEThe Bettmann Archive offers a wide range of imagery within world events, personalities, lifestyles, advertising art, art images.
- Brooklyn Academy of Music Digital ArchiveBeginning in 1860, roughly 40,000 artists are represented in the archive from all performing arts. The collection has been organized so that the 70,000 items are all linked to the names of the people involved. Researchers can create personalized collections based on specific artists, companies or eras.
- Flickr: Creative CommonsThese are works on Flickr with Creative Commons licenses, free to use with proper attribution.
- Harper's Bazaar ArchiveA comprehensive, searchable archive of every page, advertisement, and cover of every issue of Harper’s Bazaar from its first appearance in 1867 to the current month.
- Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design5000 high-quality scanned images of costume and set designs from the Motley Collection at University of Illinois. The Motley group designed sets and costumes from 1932 to 1976 for plays by Shakespeare and modern classics, opera, ballet, and motion pictures. Their designs were used in productions in the West End of London, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the English National Opera, and in the United States on Broadway.
- National Portrait GalleryEngland's National Portrait Gallery offers numerous digitized images of people.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform This link opens in a new windowContains a module with images on "Photography: The World Through the Lens."
- Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new windowThe first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels.Contains selected primary materials (the comics themselves), as well as interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism. Covers 1960's-present.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowVogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (U.S. edition), from 1892 to the current issue. All content, including covers, images, fold-outs, and advertisements, is fully searchable. It is updated monthly.
- Women's Wear Daily ArchiveA comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included, with searchable text and indexing.
- Yale Center for British ArtYale has made more than 69,000 images freely available online and in the public domain.
Video
- DIgital Theatre PlusOnline access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
- Opera in VideoContains five hundred hours of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
- Theatre in Video This link opens in a new windowContains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.
- Metropolitan Opera on DemandIncludes recent HD broadcasts, telecasts from the '70s, '80s and '90s.
