Ad*Access is a project from Duke University Libraries that presents images and information for advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines in the first half of the 20th century.

Archnet is a collection of images, texts, and other media focused on the built environment of societies in which Muslims are or have been a significant cultural presence.

A&AePortal is an ebook resource featuring scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. Publishing partners include Yale University Press, Bard Graduate Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University Press, MIT Press, Princeton University Press, Yale University Art Gallery, Dallas Museum of Art, Paul Mellon Centre, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and more.

Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of resources, including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, ebooks, reference works, images, and more.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), along with the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA), index and abstract European and American visual arts material, including articles from over 1,200 journals. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

The Blue Mountain Project contains fully searchable issues of important art, music, and literary journals of the European avant-garde.

Of the British Museum’s more than 7 million objects, 2 million have been catalogued, and of those nearly 500,000 objects have at least one digital image available online. The museum’s collection covers the history of human activity, with objects representing ancient Europe, ancient Greece and Rome, and virtually all non-Western cultures from their pre-history to present. The museum makes all of its digital images freely available for educational use, including limited-run academic publishing, and although the readily available digital images are quite good, it also has a registration-based system wherein users can request that ultra-high quality renditions be sent to them by e-mail.

Calisphere is an online image resource made available by the University of California system. It offers access to digitized primary sources documenting the history of the state of California, from its origins through the 1970s. Materials are browsable by subject or by thematic collections, and are searchable by keyword.

The Classical Art Research Centre (CARC)'s antiquities databases allow users to search for pottery, gems, sculpture, architectural terracottas, and more from sources including the Beazley Archive and the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

The Cleveland Museum of Art makes available thousands of images representing objects from its encyclopedic collection.

Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA) is a collection of commercial sewing pattern data, including images, from several large commercial pattern collections in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online (CAMEO) is a database that compiles, defines, and disseminates technical information on the distinct collection of terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation.

Database Machine Drawings (DMD) was developed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and makes available more than 1,600 high-quality digital images of Medieval and Renaissance (1235–1650) mechanical drawings. Users can make use of either simple or advanced search parameters for finding images, and the metadata is extremely thorough from image to image.

The David Rumsey Map Collection offers users access to more than 130,000 digital images of rare maps and other cartographic material, focused on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The images are made available through a number of different platforms, including a georeferencer that allows users to overlay historic maps on modern maps.

Digital Bodleian contains over one million images of items from the University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries special collections, Oxford College libraries, and other Oxford institutions. Digitized material includes manuscripts, archives, printed books, maps, ephemera, photography, and more.

The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities.

Duke Digital Collections include digitized historic photographs, advertisements, texts, and more from Duke's library collections.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere, from 1473 to 1700.

Early European Books Online contains digital facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access sources printed in Europe from the origin of printing to the end of the 17th century.

Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) offers digital images of every page of significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, as well as thousands from the Americas. The Library subscribes to Parts I and II of the database.

Epact brings together images and information about medieval and Renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford; the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence; the British Museum, London; and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.

Europeana provides access to images, texts, audio and video recordings, and more from European museums, archives, and libraries.

Flickr Commons brings together selections of digitized collections from over a hundred cultural heritage institutions around the world. Users can keyword search across collections in The Commons or browse by participating institutions.

Gallica is a free digital library maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). It provides access to a wide range of art-historical resources, including books, manuscripts, newspapers and magazines, auction catalogs, maps, images, objects, audio and video recordings, and more.

The J. Paul Getty Museum offers a searchable and browsable image database of many items in its collections, including decorative arts objects.

Google Patents indexes patents and patent applications from around the world, including full-text documents from many patent offices.

Harvard Digital Collections provides access to over six million digital items from Harvard's collections, including manuscripts, archives, rare books, photographs, maps, audio-visual material, and more.

Images from the History of Medicine provides access to the digitized collections of the History of Medicine Division of the US National Library of Medicine. It includes portraits, photographs, posters, graphic arts, and more, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine from the 15th to the 21st century.

The IADDB brings together collections of posters, advertisements, commercials, tunes, books, magazines, journals, and more from a range of institutions, galleries, and private collectors around the world.

Internet Archive serves as a free digital library with access to millions of books, videos, audio, images, websites, software programs, and more. It also hosts the Wayback Machine, a digitial archive of web-based content.

The Library of Congress Digital Collections brings together a vast array of digitized materials that document U.S. history and culture, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints, posters, sound recordings, and more.

LIFE Magazine Digital Archive provides full-text, full-color access to the magazine's issues from 1936 to 1972. Users can browse or text-search within issues.

LIFE Magazine Photo Archive makes available millions of photographs, including unpublished ones, from the magazine's archives, spanning the 18th to the 21st centuries. Users can keyword search or browse images by decade and suggested subjects.

Luna Commons hosts a number of freely available collections (permissions-based collections require a subscription, which BGC does not have) from participating institutions. These include the Catena Collection, the Farber Gravestone Collection, and Cornell’s Political Americana Collection. The searching and viewing interface is elegant and the metadata and image quality is excellent across all collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's online database offers hundreds of thousands of images from their extensive collections, representing all periods, cultures, and manners of human creative production.

The Morgan Library & Museum offers images of many of its collection items, including manuscripts, early printed books and bindings, ancient Western Asian seals and tablets, photography, archives, and more.

The Museum of Modern Art provides a searchable and browsable image database of many items in its collections.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Collections makes available hundreds of thousands of items digitized from the NYPL's collections, including prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

The New York City Archaeological Repository houses hundreds of thousands of artifacts from sites throughout the city; many of the collections have been integrated into the database and can be searched and accessed digitally. Records include excavation site and project descriptions as well as images of each artifact.

Oxford Art Online provides access to several online art reference works: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

The Smithsonian Archives Image Gallery offers a searchable and browsable digital database of the vast holdings of the Smithsonian's sub-institutions, including the National Museum of the American Indian, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and National Anthropological Archives.

The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM) provides a substantial body of terms for the subject, genre and format indexing of pictorial materials. Developed to support the cataloging and retrieval needs of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, it is made publicly available in the hope that it will promote standardization in image cataloging. When searching TGM users can link to related images from the Library's Prints and Photographs catalog.

The Victoria and Albert Museum offers a searchable and browsable image database of many items in its collections dedicated to decorative arts and material culture.

The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) makes available thousands of images from hundreds of art and design collections across the UK. The images cover a broad range of the visual arts including applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media.

Vogue Archive offers a complete, searchable digital archive of Amerian Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color images.

The William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive documents the lives and works of 19th-century Texas artisans and artists through a range of primary and secondary source materials, such as census and city directory records, newspaper articles and advertisements, ephemera, and more.

The World Digital Library is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the Library of Congress that brings together historically significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including rare books, manuscripts, maps, prints, photographs, films, recordings, and more.

Yale Digital Collections provides access to millions of digitized materials, including archives, manuscripts, printed books, maps, ephemera, prints and drawings, and photographic material. The collecitons represented span Yale's various repositories, such as the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Yale Divinity Library, the Medical Historical Library, the Lillian Goldman Law Library, the Gilmore Music Library, and more.