Images
ARTstor
The Bridgeman Art Library Archive
Image Resources
Course Study Images
ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Over 250,000 images are architecture. When entering the website, click on the red “go” button to begin searching.
The Bridgeman Art Library Archive
The Bridgeman Art Library Archive, available through Credo Reference, is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Search the collection by keyword or browse images by title.
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955. The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida.
Flickr: The Commons
Flicker Commons is a collection of images placed online by the worlds leading archives and museums. Although the images can be random, you may find some interesting views of architecture and history here.
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) collections website
The CCA holds one of the world’s foremost international research collections of publications, conceptual studies, drawings, plans, models, prints, photographs, related artefacts and ephemera, archives and oral histories of individual architects. The Collection now comprises over half a million examples that testify to the diverse ways in which architecture has been imagined, conceived, observed, and transformed for the past six centuries. Search either the Library Catalogue (books and periodicals, vertical files, audiovisual items, artefacts , printed ephemera, archives and collections and their finding aids) or the Collection Online (prints and drawings, photographs, models, artefacts, archives and collections and their finding aids)
Royal Institute of British Architects Library Catalogue online
The online catalogue provides details of material held in the collections of the RIBA Library. It is fully searchable by keyword, author, title, subject, and series, and results can be printed or emailed. The catalogue is an index to articles in over 300 of the world’s most respected architectural periodicals, details of books and audio visual materials acquired by the RIBA Library.
It also indexes the holdings of the RIBA Library Photographs Collection, the RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collections and a biographical database of architects.
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project (PAB) is a regional initiative that dramatically expands free public access to information on the built environment of the five-county Philadelphia area and beyond, by providing a user-friendly, web-based, image rich resource. In an ambitious example of private, academic, and public cooperation, the PAB project brings together the collections, data, images and professional expertise of The Athenæum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and many other local cultural institutions.
Domestic Interiors Database
The Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK) created this database to document “the changing appearance and layout of rooms in a range of domestic buildings; the objects that furnished those rooms and the ways rooms and objects were represented; how people used rooms and furnishings; and how they thought about them” in Western Europe & the US since the Renaissance.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Historical images organized by decade from the 1860s through the 1970s.
American Landscape and Architectural Design 1850-1920 – (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
A collection of lantern slides of American buildings and landscapes built between 1850-1920 representing Harvard faculty work, (Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray) as well as other prominent landscape architects. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including private estates and Boston’s Park System as well as plans, maps & models.
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HABS/HAER) (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
This online presentation of the HABS/HAER collections includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials.
NYPL Digital Gallery
Images digitized from The New York Public Library’s collections.
Course Study Images
Images for design history courses can be found in ARTstor. View the following video for instructions on how to find the image groups for your course.
How to Access Course Study Images
