Finding and Using Images: Image Resources

Find books available in Pfau Library.

Find books available in the Visual Resource Center's collection.

Cultural heritage, art, and architecture

About 100,000 free high resolution art images from the Getty's collections.

Access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items from the collections of the Smithsonian's museums, libraries, and archives.

Emphasis on design and craft.

Collates a wide variety of art images, mostly from museums.

Wikimedia Commons is a "good faith" free image repository, with items contributed by volunteers. Most images may be reused (see the license details for each) but the quality and resolution varies wildly.

Many amazing art images, but they cannot be downloaded.

University of California's cultural history image database.

Public domain works from various institutions

The Getty's collection contains numerous historical photographs, including views of Los Angeles.

Open access archive from the Magazine, hosted by Google

Local history images

NYPL collections include art images, historical photographs, and other historical graphics.

Searchable database of images and background information, primarily focused on 20th century architecture.

Daily features of architectural projects.

A free online tool that hosts images, descriptions, timelines and image collections of Islamic architecture from around the world.

Free non-commercial use stock images

Freely available stock photographs.