Subject Guide - Art History and Visual Culture Studies: Find Media Collections

Digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations.

The world’s pre-eminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

Millions of digitized materials from archives, libraries, and museums across Europe

1.2 million photographic reproductions of works of art from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century by artists trained in the Western tradition.

A page specializing in the Graphic Art of the four decades spanning 1930 through 1969.

This site provides access to resources of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Getty Conservation Institute.

Materials from the Library of Congress, including photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings.

Programs, images, and information on MoMA exhibits from its founding in 1929 to present.

Database of prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more from the NYPL, including extensive oral histories and materials from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New Yorl Public Library for the Performing Arts, preeminent archives in their areas.

Thousands of freely licensed digital books, artworks, photos and images of historical library materials and museum objects.