The ACC Library & Archives Digital Collections detail the history of contemporary craft in America. The collections consist of images, newsletters, oral histories, conference proceedings, periodicals, and archival material.

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.

Artstor is JSTOR’s collection of millions of images from institutions around the world. The images can be searched alongside texual content in JSTOR, or can be browsed by collection. To view BGC and Bard College's institutional image collections, including images of the study collection, select "Your Institution's Collections" from the Browse menu in the upper righthand corner.

BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art) is a database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE, the period encompassing the advent of print culture in Europe and its neighboring regions.

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.

The Boston Furniture Archive provides images of and information about furniture produced between 1630 and 1930 in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Roxbury.

The British Museum's online collection allows access to millions of objects, ranging from some of the earliest objects created by humankind to works by contemporary artists.

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.

Collecteurs: The Museum of Private Collections is a social platform that allows users to discover and follow private collectors and the artwork that they own, as well as upload their own artwork or collections.

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.

Curationist brings together open-access images from museums and archives worldwide. For select objects, metadata has been added by the Curationist team to enhance the existing information or to provide a different perspective, which is often rooted in a concern for social justice. Users can search across all images, browse curated collections, and read essays about the relationships between objects, cultural themes, and critical perspectives.

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 Benin brings together objects, documentation, and historical photographs from collections worldwide to provide an overview of the royal artifacts from Benin Kingdom looted in the late 19th century.

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.

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) provides access to thousands of Caribbean and circum-Caribbean resources held in archives, libraries, museums, private collections, and other institutions across the Caribbean, US, Canada, and Europe, with particular strengths in newspaper and map collections.

Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) brings together digitized trans-related historical and born-digital materials from collections around the world. Users can search the database and browse by institution, collection, topic, genre, or geographically.

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

Early Modern Books provides access to digital facsimiles of material from the British Isles and Europe 1450-1700 through an integrated search across Early English Books Online and Early European Books.

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.

Fashion History Timeline explores the history of fashion by bringing together objects and artworks from museums and libraries worldwide, topical essays, an illustrated dictionary, and a searchable source database of relevant academic publications.

Feminae indexes a range of publications related to women, sexuality, and gender in the medieval period. In addition to searching the database, users can browse subject headings, image records, and other resources including websites and bibliographies.

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.

Fragmentarium serves as a digital laboratory specializing in medieval manuscript fragments, allowing users to describe, transcribe, assemble, and research fragments from institutions around the world.

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.

Graphikportal brings together digital content related to works on paper from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The database is searchable by artist, subject, medium, date and collection.

The Hagley Digital Archives provides online access to selected items from the Hagley Library's collection of images, documents, and publications related to the history of business, technology, and society.

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.

Documents of Latin American and Latino art is a project of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) that brings together thousands of primary source materials and critical texts related to 20th- and 21st-century Latin American and Latinx/e art.

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.

Letterform Archive offers virtual access to a collection of books, periodicals, posters, original art, and ephemera related to the history of written communication, from manuscripts to print to digital type.

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.

The London Museum's collections showcase the lives and stories of Londoners over 450,000 years. The collections include archaeological objects, artwork, dress and textiles, and everyday items.

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.

Mapping Philippine Material Culture is a visual inventory of Philippine objects dating to the mid-20th century held in museums and private collections outside of the Philippines.

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.

New York Heritage brings together digital collections from libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural institutions across New York State, including materials such as photographs, letters, diaries, maps, directories, artifacts, oral histories, and more.

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.

Old Maps Online provides access to maps from libraries, universities, archives, and other cultural insitutions from around the world. Users can view a variety of maps based on geographic location or time period to compare historical maps to current mapping data.

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

People's Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive of photographs, correspondence, oral histories, articles, essays, and more about graphic design history. Users can search the archive based on geographic scope, language, artists, material, themes, and associated insitutions.

The Quilt Index is an open-access, digital repository containing images, stories, and information about quilts and their makers drawn from various public and private collections around the world. Users can search individual quilts, artists, and related ephemera.

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.

Smithsonian Open Access allows users to access and download Smithsonian digital assests from a wide range of collections. These assests can include: text, still images, sound recordings, research datasets, 3D models, and collections data.

The Marks Project is a searchable database of the signatures, marks, and biographical information for mid-20th- and 21st-century American studio potters, ceramic artists, and artists working in clay. Users can search by mark, artist, studio, and/or collection, as well as browse an artist index.

The Plastics Collection is a digital resource created by the Syracuse University Libraries. The collection brings together an array of primary sources including archival materials, books, periodicals, media, and plastic artifacts produced from the mid-19th century to the present day.

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.

Umbra Search provides access to digitized materials focused on African American history and cultural life from libraries, archives, and museums across the US. These digitized materials include: photos, videos, audio recordings, printed material, and objects.

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 Wellcome Collections provides access to digital material related to health and medicine. Their collections include rare books, artworks, films and videos, personal archives, and objects from the 14th century to the present. Users can also access their public domain image collection that includes advertisements, artwork, prints, and photographs.

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 Cultural Heritage Project, hosted by the William King Museum of Art, documents and photographs objects made by hand in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Users can search this collection by object type, place of origin, material, and date.

The Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database documents a number of examples of Wisconsin's material heritage from the collections of various museums, historical societies, and private individuals across the state.

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.