Research Guides: Citing Sources: Image Databases

Image Databases

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Transitioning to Artstor on JSTOR | JSTOR Images. This resource will migrate to a new platform on June 1, 2024. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
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New Artstor platform. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art.
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US Edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
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A trend forecasting company providing global trend insights, curated data, and industry expertise on consumer trends.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
A free-use image resource for the educational community arranged by art historical period and keyed to major art historical textbooks, i.e. Janson, Gardner, Hartt.
Flickr: The Commons
Photos, with no known or limited copyright restrictions, available from the Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, NYPL, Smithsonian Institution, Bibliothèque de Toulouse, Australian War Memorial Collection, George Eastman House, Imperial War Museum Collections, The Field Museum Library, National Galleries of Scotland Commons, Getty Research Institute and 20 other participating institutions.
Images from Creative Commons
Search sites such Fotopedia, You Tube, Europeana, Jamendo, Flickr and others for images, media and music for creative and commercial use.
Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project that showcases interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available online.
World Images
provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery
Public Domain Image Resource Links
A meta site with lists of sources of public domain images in the Web.