Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. The site concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II which are preserved in one advertising collection available at Duke University.
American Memory from the Library of Congress: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
This site offers over seven million images. The images are on a variety of topics and subject matter including Daguerreotype photographs, maps, historical documents, Farm Security Administration photographs, sheet music, etc.
ARTstor (UC access only)
300,000 images of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts, and design. Included in the image database is an Art History Survey Collection consisting of 4000 images and 20,000 architecture images from antiquity to the present. ARTstor allows users to create presentations and insert annotations; it can be used either on or offline. for a quick guide to using the database try More about ARTstor. Or download the ARTstor Software Manual (PDF format) which contains detailed instructions.
Bayou Bend Collection
Images of American Decorative Arts.
Chipstone Collection Images
Images of Early American furniture and 17th and 18th century ceramics.
The DAAP Digital Image Teaching Collection (UC access only)
represents core images required to support the DAAP curriculum. These images span a broad spectrum of the visual arts including contemporary performance artists to urban landscapes.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
9,000 advertising images from Duke University.
Graphic Design in Travel Ephemera
An online gallery of a large personal collection of illustrated ephemera from European, Asian, and American “travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels,advertising, and graphic design publications.”
Posters American Style (Smithsonian)
This collection of posters, gathered from both private and public collections, ranges from early to modern examples, emphasizing the importance of graphic design, powerful slogans, and the diversity of the American audience. Subjects include political movements, concerts, sporting events, and more.
Swiss Poster Collection
An online collection of over 300 posters from Carnegie Mellon University’s Swiss Poster Collection, representing the Swiss Posters of the Year competition and other Swiss posters from 1971 to the present. The site features a search engine, tours by topic, designer, or keyword, information about the collection, and related links.