Art History Research Guide

3 full text collections--ReVIEW, arts & architecture journals; Arts + Architecture ProFILES, biographical data on artists, architects, & designers; Research Source on The Poster--plus Design Abstracts Retrospective, indexing applied arts and design journals from 1900-1986.

NYARC and the Internet Archive's collaborative project aimed at capturing and preserving at-risk web-based art materials, primarily collections of archived web-based content related to art history and contemporary art practice.

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) gathers information about archival collections held by member organizations that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago. The searchable database includes records about collections that were processed or surveyed through the BMRC's Survey Initiative and Color Curtain Processing Project programs, as well as finding aids contributed from our members about relevant materials in their repositories.

Searchable archives of digitized newspapers including the Village Voice.

Collection of primary-source materials on the Indigenous people of Canada and the United States, including artwork, manuscripts, monographs, motion pictures, newspapers, and photographs from a wide variety of archival sources.

Many digitized items can be checked out for a limited period. Continually growing collection offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Visual, contextual, and non-spatial documentation of African heritage sites. These materials serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning. More downloadable datasets and spatial documentation for the Zamani Project can be found here.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the United State's record keeper, including government documents, historic documentation of American life, and robust digital collections.

Collection of photographs, albums, illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography, containing images from Africa, Asian, Europe, and the Americas.

A crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history, including everything from finished projects to process, photos, correspondence, oral histories, anecdotes, articles, essays, and other materials.

Online institutional repository created and managed by the John M. Flaxman Library. Presents curated selections of historic publications, archival materials, student theses, and artists’ works drawn from our library shelves or from other campus special collections. They are offered here for educational and research purposes. Not all content available to be read online.

SAOA is a rich and growing collection of historical and contemporary sources in the arts, humanities and social sciences from and about South Asia available through JSTOR.

Collection of primary-source documents about significant expositions from 1840 to 1923 from the Smithsonian.