Audio, Images, and Video

The Beinecke Library at Yale University has digitized more than a million images of collections material.

Try searching images with a Creative Commons License.

The Getty provides many free resources to researchers. Including: The Open Content Program (images of art objects). The Research Portal (Access to complete digital copies of art history texts, rare books, and related literature). And many more!

MoMA's collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art. More than 94,000 works are currently available online.

Digital Collections provides online access to UC Berkeley Library’s rare and unique digitized special collections, books, manuscripts, images, photographs, newspapers, and more.

This site features materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the University of Washington Libraries (including Special Collections), University of Washington Faculty and Departments, and organizations that have participated in partner projects with the UW Libraries.

The Wisconsin Historical Society's Archives has approximately 3 million images in more than 6,000 collections. Materials include photographs, negatives, films, architectural drawings, cartoons, lithographs, posters, and ephemeral materials from private, business, and governmental sources. Collections have a national focus in the areas of 19th century expeditionary photography, Native American images, mass communications, and social action movements including labor and civil rights.

Emerson College Archives' collections come in many forms and cover a variety of topics, with a focus on the history of the College and subjects that complement the College curriculum, such as theater, journalism, comedy, and communication disorders. Whether you are writing an essay for a class, creating promotional materials for your department, or publishing a book on a historical topic, our collections can provide valuable information.

Selected posters and fliers from 1978-2004 documenting events and activities sponsored by Emerson College student organizations, Amigos, Asian Students for Intercultural Awareness (ASIA), and Emerson's Black Organization With Natural Interests (EBONI).

Selected photographs, posters, programs, and playbills from theater productions held by Emerson College students, faculty, and staff from the 1900s and onward. These records were digitized by the Digital Commonwealth, Massachusetts' aggregated digital library portal.

Emerson College yearbooks, the Emersonian, have been digitized by the Digital Commonwealth, Massachusetts' aggregated digital library portal. Yearbooks range from 1908 to present day and are full-text searchable and downloadable.

Photographs highlighting life at Emerson College over the years. Offering a glimpse into the people, places and events that make Emerson the vibrant community it is, Archives and Special Collections has made these photos available.

Curated views that provide specialized search options and unique content from Harvard University Library. Includes collections related to women's rights, Black history, crime, illness, immigration, and non-US works, among others.

This site is dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Images and transcripts related to the radical origins of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Over 1,000 images of labor and American radical left movements.

Hundreds of images and photographs of the American labor movement and its cultural artifacts.

Ulmann's photographs represent important primary source material for historical and ethnographic studies of Appalachian and Gullah culture as well the subject of folk arts and craft traditions.

Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

This website includes over 3,300 Chinese propaganda posters, with information about their history, background and design.

Cornell University Library has collected political campaign memorabilia and documentation since the 1950s, including thousands of items that show how American political parties and groups have promoted their candidates and platforms from the end of the 1700s to the present.

Images of 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920.

This site features Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban posters from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

Seven collections including postcards, pathology illustrations. paintings, and portrait engravings.

Over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.

Over 600 advertisements and historical documents dated between 1911 and 1958, relating to the creation and influence of health-related advertising.

The American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection contains over 14000 maps, ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of American cities, states, and national parks.

Thousands of maps and atlases from around the world are available online in high reolution from the Harvard Map Collection.

Mapping Inequality brings the Home Owners' Loan Corporation archives to the public. HOLC's documents contain a wealth of information about how government officials, lenders, and real estate interests surveyed and ensured the economic health of American cities and encouraged policies contributing to inequality.

Nearly 10,000 objects, primarily flat maps but also including some bound atlases, ephemera, and series, are available online. The Digital Collections portal features an advanced search for filtering material by date and theme, as well as many maps that have been georeferenced for display on top of a modern map layer.

This collection from Cornell University Library contains “persuasive cartography,” maps intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs - to send or reinforce messages - rather than to communicate objective geographic information (Tyner 2015, 1087). Maps of this sort have also been described as “suggestive cartography,” “rhetorical cartography” and “propaganda maps”.

Includes Sanborn insurance, historic, geoscientific, topographic, and bathymetric maps and charts, as well as raster and vector data.

The UT Libraries' Map Collection comprises more than 350,000 items representing all areas of the world, including maps of early settlements, military history, and geospatial data.

Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. Openverse is the successor of CC Search.

Public Collections have been made available by the institutions that manage them in order to allow broader access. All of the images can be viewed and downloaded without restrictions, but you should consult the rights data in each record to see if and how an image can be reused.

A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. These images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

Beautiful, high-resolution photos of Black and Brown people. All photos posted on Nappy are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license and are dedicated to the public domain.

Provides high quality and completely free stock photos. No attribution required.

A co-op of stock image photography featuring images of people of color. Picnoi photos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.

Provides royalty free photos and videos. Pixabay grants an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty free right to use, download, copy, modify or adapt the Content for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

Millions of free high-resolution images created by the world’s most generous community of photographers. Unsplash grants an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash.

Free photos of women of color working in technology. WOCinTech photos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.