LibGuides: ARCH 3901: Architecture’s Global Territories: Images

Large Image Repositories

ARTstor
Artstor is a searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data from museum, archives, galleries and libraries from around the globe. ARTstor documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.

Creative Commons Search
The newly designed Creative Commons’ “CC Search” project is a still developing open online search and re-use tool that allows high-quality content from the commons to surface in a more seamless and accessible way. You can find collections from a variety of openGLAM institutions (open content from galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sources in one place.
Digital Public Library of America
A portal to the digitized collections of various institutions across the nation, including millions of photographs, documents, books, audio materials, and moving images.
Flickr
Flickr is a photo management and sharing site, which offers users the ability to search by licensing types. In advanced search by licensing information.
Google Advanced Image Search
Using Google Image Search's "Tools" menu, you can search images based on their usage rights.
Library of Congress, Digital Collections
The Library of Congress Digital Collections database offers a wide variety of public domain media materials created on behalf of, or collected by, the federal government. Items include historic maps, photographs, musical scores, oral histories, full text documents, and much more.
Museum of Modern Art
The catalog contains over 76,000 works of modern and contemporary art from the MoMA's collection of nearly 200,000 works. This database includes exhibition history, links to the Getty ULAN, and details on individual works of art.
Museum of the City of New York
This database contains over 185,000 images (including photographs, maps, archival materials and multimedia) related to the history of New York City.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
This site is a living database of the New York Public Library's digital collections with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. It includes the digital collections for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. You can search public domain works by clicking on public domain below the search box.
Wikimedia Commons
I large repository of images that are free to use.

Image Databases in Architecture

Archnet
Archnet is an open access, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.

ARTstor
Artstor is a searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data from museum, archives, galleries and libraries from around the globe. ARTstor documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.

Europeana
Europeana brings together the digital collections from cultural and scientific institutions across Europe. Explore 58,245,986 artworks, artifacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
RIBApix
RIBApix is a visual archive of over 95,000 digital images brought to you from the magnificent collections of the British Architectural Library
Society of Architectural Historians (SAHARA)
SAHARA is a digital image archive developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with Artstor. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SAHARA contains over 155,000 images of architecture and landscapes contributed by SAH members—architects, scholars, photographers, graduate students, preservationists, and others who share an interest in the built environment.