Library & Learning Commons: Finding Images: Image Databases

Online Image Databases

Ad* Access This link opens in a new window
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
Explore nearly 17 million digital items such as maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, and museum objects from libraries, archives, and museums across the US.
Europeana This link opens in a new window
Over 50 million artworks, artifacts, books, videos, and sounds from across Europe. Major topics include art, fashion, maps, music, and natural history.
Google Arts and Culture This link opens in a new window
Explore art, architecture, fashion, decor, photographs, and historical sites. Filter by keyword, historic event, artist, location, or time period. Take virtual tours of global sites (including theatres and performance venues).

Smithsonian Open Access
155 million artifacts, works of art, and specimens in the Smithsonian's collections. Most items are fully open access -- Which means that you can download and use the files in whatever way you wish without requesting express permission from the organization.
RIBApix from Royal Institute of British Architects
World architecture images.