This is a list of image database related to art and design, BUT if you need other types of images there are many more on the Image Databases page.
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian magazine and newspaper advertisements in five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda. 1911-1955.
Current and historical photographs, audio clips, & news from the Associated Press. Licensed for educational use. 1826 - present
High-quality image and media from some of the world's top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else.
Over 600 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries (English and foreign language), thesauri, books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific reference books.
Full text articles, books, texts, audio files, videos, images, and datasets stored in over 1,100 open access repositories all over the world.
Primary source material on the cultural change between 1950-1975. Rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest, fashion, civil rights, Vietnam, student activism, and underground publications.
Exhibition, creation, and preservation of of digital contemporary art. 1996 to present.
Search millions of items from the Smithsonian's museum, archives, library, research holdings and collections.
Large, global collection of images free for non-profit, educational purposes. Includes all areas of visual imagery.
Please see the Finding Images Research Guide for more complete information on finding images, copyright, and presentation tools & techniques.