Visual Arts Image Databases (BYU only)
Start here... Artstor has a huge collection of costume and clothing!
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ArtStor This link opens in a new window ARTstor is a digital image database of nearly 700,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods. It includes tools to manipulate the images for study and teaching. Collections include The Image Collection (key art works used in arts, humanities, social science studies); The Art History Survey collection (concordance of 13 standard art history survey texts); The Carnegie Arts of the United States (American visual arts and material culture); The Hartill Architectural Archive; The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Illustrated Bartsch (European prints from 15th-19th centuries); The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive of Chinese art; The MOMA Architecture and Design Archive; The Native American art and Culture from the Smithsonian Institute; and a large number of significant collections being added. For details and tutorials, consult the ARTstor research guide at: http://www.lib.byu.edu/subsutility/viewGuide.php?gid=432&nav=1
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Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window Bridgeman Education is a complete visual resource offering over 1,000,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilisations.
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Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window The Berg Fashion Library is the only resource to provide integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. It includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a vast image bank, extra reference resources and more.
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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window Comprehensive encyclopedia of art, with authoritative and comprehensive reference sources for all visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, design, and decorative arts. Includes links to images from libraries and museums. Contains: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford, and The Dictionary of Art Terms. We have 8 simultaneous users.
BYU Digital Image Collections
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BYU Historical Clothing CollectionThe Historical Clothing Collection of BYU’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts now resides in the Lee Library. The collection features artifacts from the late 18th century through the 1990s and is organized by period, type, and gender.
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BYU Digital Collections: Historical Photographs C. R. Savage Collection, Edith Irvine Collection, Walter Mason Camp Collection, George Edward Anderson Collection, Huntington Bagley Collection, William Henry Jackson Collection, World War II by J Malan Heslop, Paul R. Cheesman Collection, George Beard Collection.