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Image Databases

Artstor
A digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Includes a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching.
[WSU libraries purchased access for you from ITHAKA.]

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met collection represents more than 5000 years of art.
MoMA
the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art. Nearly half are currently available online.
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art has more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Limited Use: 5 users at a time.
Includes the Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001) and newly contributed articles. Includes art image thumbnails, line drawings, and links to external images.

Rijksstudio
The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands. The collection tells the story of 800 years of Dutch history, from 1200 to present.

American decades
Call Number: ebook series
ISBN: 0810357232
Once you've tried a search or browsed, you may need to look for a decade drop-down box to change volumes.
American decades primary sources
Call Number: ebook series
ISBN: 0787665894

The following resources contain scans of historical news sources which may include images.

Historical New York Times This link opens in a new window
The Historical NYT is an online digital reproduction of the New York Times, including photographs and advertisements.
HarpWeek (1857-1871) This link opens in a new window
Read the full-text of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), the leading American illustrated magazine of the period. Covers political, military, social and cultural issues. Search by section: subjects, illustrations, literature, and advertising.

Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
University of Illinois' rare collection of original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States. These materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric.
Fashion Plate Collection
University of Washington's online fashion plate collection. Many of these plates are from some of the leading French, British, American, and other continental fashion journals of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Stage Costumes (Withing the Victorica and Albert Museum Collecitons)
Victoria and Albert Museum's searchable collection catalog contains references to stage costume designers, costume makers, and the costumes themselves.