Journal articles, essays, papers, and some books on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Index with links to full text in many cases. Covers publications from 1949-present.
The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. Provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Vanderbilt University freely available, regularly updated visual image internet resource. Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes.There are currently 4207 images in the collection.
UC Berkeley image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. As a visual catalog, DS allows scholars to verify with their own eyes; special emphasis is placed on the touchstone materials: manuscripts signed and dated by their scribes.
The Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. You need to register (free for MHC community members) if you wish to download ArtStor images.
AP Newsroom contains breaking news, feature stories, photographs, graphics and audio clips produced by the AP’s network of award-winning journalists, who operate in more than 250 locations worldwide. Includes 170 years of news stories, 12 million historical and contemporary images and an extensive collection of audio clips.
The Archivision Digital Research Library is currently comprised of nearly 100,000 images of architecture, archaeological sites, gardens, parks and works of art with broad appeal in humanities teaching.
Provides images on architecture, gardens, parks, landscapes, public art and design for educational & commercial use.Where possible, drawings & models are photographed from original and copyright-free sources.
ArchiveGrid includes over four million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Searchable database of the art collections of the Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield, a consortium of museums in Western Massachusetts, which provides access to information and images of over 60,000 objects.
Museum websites are excellent sources for images. Search specific museum websites to locate collections for your project. You should also check Flickr and Artstor as many museums and cultural institutions are using these platforms to share images.
The photography collection includes more than 400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. The collection embraces numerous landmark processes, objects of great rarity, and monuments of art history that trace the evolution of the medium as a technology, as a means of scientific and historical documentation, and as one of the most potent and accessible means of personal expression of the modern era.
The Museum has implemented Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC). Through OASC, artworks in the Collection section of the website which the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions have been identified by an Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) Icon; images associated with these artworks can be downloaded for license- and cost-free scholarly and academic publication
The National Gallery houses the national collection of paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to the 19th centuries. View Images from the collection.
Search over 8.8 million catalog records of museum objects, and library & archives materials. More than 1,096,000 of these records contain online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.
partners with galleries and museums to create a freely available and searchable image database. Includes contemporary art images, historical art images available for download. Artsy does feature images of artwork that is available for sale.
Through University of Washington Collection of digitized images of cities and buildings throughout the world. Search by country, city, style, architect, or date of construction. Many images are copyright controlled.
allows users to search Getty repositories, including library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids. Provides out of copyright images for download through the Open Content Program.