Library Guides: History of Architecture: Images

Images, Plans and Illustrations

Below is a very selective listing. For more detailed listings, consult the Environmental Design Library guides such as Image Sources for the Built Environment. For more image resource see the list of Image Databases.

AP Newsroom This link opens in a new window
Historical Associated Press photos. Also includes tens of thousands of graphics, audio files, and news stories and headlines. (Associated Press Photo Archive - AccuNet - AP Multimedia Archive - AP Photo Archive) [1826 - present]
4.6 million photographs from the Associated Press dating back to 1826 to the present. Historical photos date from 1996 to 1826. Also includes tens of thousands of graphics, over 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920s, and news stories and headlines dating from 1997. Search by keyword to search all the images in the photo collection or do an advanced search to limit results.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
A repository of more than 1 million high resolution art, architecture, and design images with associated catalog data.
A repository of more than 1 million digital images and associated catalog data. The collection is designed to be used by students and faculty for teaching and research in art history, as well as many other disciplines. Includes several collections such as: The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; Native American Art and Culture from the Smithsonian; the Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts, etc. Short instructional videos are available online. See: Intro to the new ARTstor, Downloading images to PowerPoint, Batch download tool, and Making an image group.

California Heritage Collection
An online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library.

Cities and Buildings Database This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 12,000 digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world.
A collection of over 5000 digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages to the Parc de la Villette. Users can now search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields. Images have all been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. Freely available to anyone with access to the Web for use in the classroom, student study, or for individual research purposes.

Exhibition Catalogs

Museum and gallery exhibition catalogs are good sources of information. While many are cataloged as books and can be found in library catalogs, it is also a good idea to check the following resources. See also the section on Organizations, Associations, Museums.

Art exhibition catalogs [microform] : [indexes]
[indexes]. Cambridge, England; Teaneck, N.J. Chadwyck-Healy, 1982.
Society of architectural historians
Maintains a list of current architecture exhibitions on their website
Worldwide Books
Search the online database of Worldwide Books, which specializes in exhibition catalogs.
The Worldwide bibliography of art exhibition catalogues, 1963-1987.
Millwood, NY.: Kraus International Publications; Ithaca, N.Y.: Worldwide Books, 1992. 3 vols.
Print edition of Worldwide Books database.

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