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.
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 information on finding images and copyright information on using them.
Check for available dates for when the Finding Images Workshop will be offered if you would like to attend.
You can see a list of all the library's image databases from the "By Type" drop down menu on the Research Databases page. Or use the list to the left here.
You can also check the library catalog for art books with images. Just use the keyword for the type of image you want and an abbreviation like ill or illus for illustration. Example: birds and ill or type in birds and illus. Other words for finding images that you can use in catalog searches are pictoral works, illustration, or "___ in art", for example "flowers in art".
We do own the Illustration Index, Sculpture Index, and Havlice's World Painting Index (tells you what book has a reproduction or illustration of known works by known artists) and Martha Moss's Photography Books Index, volumes I and II, a subject guide to photo anthologies. If you do a keyword search under “catalogue raisonne” you will get all the books of the complete works (catalogue raisonne) of particular artists.