Digital image gallery with millions of images of works of art from museums, galleries, and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Artstor also includes AIC Collections, images curated by the Flaxman Library specifically for use in teaching and research at SAIC. NOTE: you must register and login in the upper right corner of Artstor to download images.
The Art Institute's permanent collection. Includes images, basic information and often the publication history about works of art representing all areas of the collection.
Core images include works from over 100 museums, including the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Uffizi, the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, museums in Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Berlin, and major museums in the USA.
30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
Scholarly, primary source on adult comic books and graphic novels. Begins with the first underground comix (1960s) to the works of modern sequential artists, and contains more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, plus interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform.
Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names
Digital image gallery with millions of images of works of art from museums, galleries, and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Artstor also includes AIC Collections, images curated by the Flaxman Library specifically for use in teaching and research at SAIC. NOTE: you must register and login in the upper right corner of Artstor to download images.
Image-based similarity searches images identified from 2,311,060 digitized works of the Bavarian State Library, published between the 9th and the 20th century.
Bibliothèque nationale de France + a few related collections (e.g.; INHA (the national library for the history of art) includes some full text + images.
Curated selections of historic publications, archival materials, student theses, and artists’ works drawn from our library shelves or from other campus special collections.
40,000+ images in one of the world's largest archives specializing in historic and current images of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Free: registration required.
Drawings of furniture, interiors, jewelry, wallpaper, and more from the Cooper Hewitt, Freer Gallery, Hirshhorn, and other Smithsonian Museum collections.
Browse the finding aids to locate drawings at Ryerson that are not digitized.
choose "Burnham Library-University of Illinois Project to Microfilm..." from the menu, and then select the document with "Appendix" at the top of the page in order to view a list of architects and buildings included in this microfilm project of over 11,000 drawings
browse the finding aid list to find other architects and collections in addition to the microfilm project
Check architectural magazines. Search the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the Burnham Index (in Ryerson, call no. Z5944.U5 B87) to identify citations. Both libraries have many of these magazines. Inland Architect is particularly good for early Chicago building plans.
Check individual archival collections at Ryerson. Browse digitized items by collection here
The museum’s Architecture and Design Department collection of drawings is inventoried and accessible by librarians at Ryerson & Burnham libraries; checkcontact information & hours.
Search either Flaxman or Ryerson's catalog for books on specific architects or buildings; sometimes plans and drawings are included. Particularly useful are the Historic American Buildings Survey books, also digitized by the Library of Congress here.
Additionally, the Chicago History Museum has plans and drawings for Chicago-area buildings.
Burst is a free stock photo site that is powered by Shopify. Photos are offered under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, you can use the photos for any purpose.
Collection of free images includes more than 900 WPA posters, more than 3,000 American art illustrations, 400 snapshots taken by the song-collecting Lomax family, and hundreds of color photographs taken during a survey of the Russian Empire between 1905 and 1915.
A guide to Chicago's neighborhoods and 77 officially designated community areas through Chicago-area archival collections from Explore Chicago Collections.