Academy of Art University Collection
The Academy of Art University digital image collection includes images from the Saskia Gardner's Art through the Ages art history set, selected images from our 35mm slide library, and images digitized locally at the request of faculty. There are currently over 5,520 images.
Terms of use: Restricted to Academy of Art University
Image credit: The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli,  ca.1444-1510

The AMICA Library Collection
The AMICA Library contains works of art from the collections of prominent museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. Types of works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs, as well as textiles, costumes, jewelry, decorative art, books and manuscripts. This is a subscription based collection. There are currently over 108,000 images.
Terms of use: Restricted to Academy of Art University
Image credit: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849

The School of Illustration Collection
The School of Illustration Collection is a virtual collection supported by the Academy of Art University Library digital image collection. It includes images selected from the School of Illustration’s 35mm slide library, images digitized locally at the request of faculty, and student work.
Terms of use: Restricted to Academy of Art University
Image credit: General Motors, "Body by Fisher", Barclay, McClelland, 1930

Claire Holt Indonesian Art Images Collection (Cornell University)
The Claire Holt Papers contains slides which were created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project to document Indonesian art, architecture, ceremonies, landscapes, painting, people, sculpture, textiles, and theater. Claire Holt traveled to Indonesia in 1930 where she studied dance, worked with anthropologist Willem Stutterheim, and then assisted Swedish dance archivist and patron Rolf de Mare with his photo and film record of Indonesian dance. She came to Cornell University where, in 1962, she helped found the Modern Indonesia Project. There are currently 1,780 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access
Image credit: Classical Batik Patterns: Pringgadani, Unknown creator, unknown date

Samek Art Gallery Collection (Bucknell University)
Selected images from the permanent collection of Bucknell University's Samek Art Gallery. The collection includes works of art from Europe, North and South America, Africa, China, Japan, and the Pacific Islands. There are currently over 1200 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access
Image credit: Untitled, Kunisada, 1798–1861

National Palace Images Collection
The curators of the National Palace Museum in Taipei have carefully selected thousands of works from their permanent collection to be included in a new digitized collection. The scope of these works spans seven millennia of Chinese history and pre-history. There are more than 5,000 images in this collection.
Terms of use: Free, educational use only
Image credit: Bronze Su Dun, Unknown creator, 570-400BC

Academy Student Collection
The Academy Student Collection contains color and black & white photographs There are currently 184 images.
Terms of use: Restricted to Academy of Art University
Image credit: Untitled, Unknown author, unknown date

The David Rumsey Collection (Cartography Associates)
The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online selection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. The digital images and associated descriptive data are © Cartography Associates. There are currently over 13,600 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: World Globular Projection, Thomas T. Smiley, 1842

The Japanese Historical Map Collection
The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library contains early maps of Japan and the World. Represented in this online collection are a selection of maps and books from the collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library at U.C. Berkeley, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. Most noteworthy in the collection are a range of Japanese city maps dating back 300 years. This collection contains over 1,500 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: Sekaizu narabini Nihonzu byobu, Unknown, 1640

Andrew Dickson White Collection (Cornell University)
Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918), the first president of Cornell University, established the Architectural Photographs Collection by donating images of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture, decorative arts and sculpture from his personal architectural library. There are currently 1,230 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: New Louvre, Pavillion Turgot, Hector Martin Lefuel, ca. 1865-1895 (Photograph date)

Catena Historic Gardens & Landscapes Archive Collection (The Bard Graduate Center)
Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, is a collection of historic and contemporary images, including plans, engravings, and photographs, intended to support research and teaching in the fields of garden history and landscape studies. Created through the collaborative efforts of landscape historians and institutions, the initial offering of images is focused on the Villas as a Landscape Type. There are currently 1,111 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: Villa Belvedere, Unknown Author, 1598-1603

Pratt Institute Fashion Plate Collection (Pratt Institute Libraries)
The Fashion Plate Collection consists of hand-colored fashion plates from the French periodical La Gazette du Bon Ton (considered the most influential fashion magazine during its existence from 1912 to 1925) and its American edition, La Gazette du Bon Genre, distributed by Condé Nast. The plates in Pratt's collection date from 1922, were created by such prominent French artists as George Barbier, Pierre Brissaud, and Georges Lepape, and anticipate the Art Deco movement of the mid-1920s. There are currently 129 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: Ah! Le Bel Oiseau! | Robe d'interieur de Doucet, Dammy, H. Robert, 1913

Fashion Design History Collection
The Fashion Design History Collection contains 3,077 fashion design sketches held by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives Center of Parsons The New School for Design. Represented in the collection is the work of the innovative ready-to-wear designer Claire McCardell (1905-58), the pioneer American couturier Norman Norell (1900-72), and the mulitfaceted sportswear designer Mildred Orrick(1906-94).
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: Designs for evening dresses and a coat, Claire McCardell, ca. 1960s

Hoover Institution Poster Collection (Stanford University)
The Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection includes political posters from around the world. Many thousands of posters date from World War I and World War II, though the posters cover the entire twentieth century. Posters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and France are well represented, but also included are posters from more than eighty countries. The online collection consists of selected Russian posters. Additional images from other countries will be added. There are currently 53 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: Sviashchennaia voina. Moguchaia Rus'..., Izd. litografii M. A. Strel'tsova (Publisher), 1914-1918

Rylands Collection (The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester)
The Rylands Collection holds outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives. Spanning five millennia, the manuscript collections include literary, historical, antiquarian, genealogical, biblical, devotional, ritualistic, medical, scientific, legal and administrative texts. The printed book collections encompass almost all the landmarks of printing through five centuries, including magnificent illustrated books, examples of fine printing, landmark works in typography, key historical texts and exquisite bookbindings. There are currently 3,623 images.
Terms of use: Free, unlimited access.
Image credit: Gutenberg Bible, Johann Gutenberg, 1455