InfoGuides: ARTH 440: War, Trade, Colonialism: Find Objects & Images

Image Databases

These image databases cover a massive scope of artistic media and disciplines, geographies, and time periods.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Contains over a million images documenting artistic traditions across many cultures and time periods. Updated frequently, please check back often for updated searches & collections. Note: ARTstor users must create a free account to save and share images. Users must turn off the popup blocker.
Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion.

Smithsonian Image Gallery
The Image Gallery includes over 530,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.

The Metropolitan Museum - Digital Collections
Browse works from the Met's collections by year, topic, materials, artist, and more.
The British Museum Collections
Search over 4 million objects from the collections of the British Museum
Rijksmuseum Collections (Netherlands)
The Rijksmuseum Rijksstudio provides high-quality, high-resolution images of a majority of works in their collection,
V&A Collections (UK)
Search or browse 1 million+ objects from the V&A, including decorative arts, design, and fashion

China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window
Provides variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West, beginning with Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, and relating to the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China between 1793 and 1980, together with rare periodicals, color paintings, maps, photographs and drawings.
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange This link opens in a new window
Contains primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. It focuses on the history of 15 major commodities, and examines the ways that they have changed the world. In addition to historical documents, collection provides users with visual resources, such as thematic galleries, data and maps, and a searchable chronology.
Gale Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century This link opens in a new window
Provides historical and primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean. Access original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, and more. Some foreign language material.
Formerly World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean