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JSTOR ImagesSearch over 3.7 million images from museums, archives, and other similar, identified collections of photos and artwork. Use filters to specify date ranges, source type ("classification"), country, and collection.
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Digital Public Library of AmericaOver 13 million digitized images, documents, recordings and more from libraries, museums, and archives. Among its various specific pages that may be useful is this list of primary source sets.
Online Magazine Archives
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Life Magazine and Time Magazine Archivescombined EBSCOhost access to archives of Life and Time magazines and the prominent photojournalism therein, from their first issues up through 2000. National and international current events, politics, sports, and entertainment, and just about any aspect of 20th-Century history and life.
Includes option to limit to those articles with illustrations.
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Newsweek Archive This link opens in a new window
Digital access to the full run of the US edition of Newsweek, from its launch in 1933* to 2012 (when the print edition originally ceased). With an international circulation that peaked at more than 3 million, it was one of the largest and most influential weekly magazines, encompassing breaking news, analysis, reviews, and commentary. Its investigative reporting included extensive coverage of issues relating to racism and civil rights from the 1960s forward.
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National Geographic magazine archive This link opens in a new window
Full-color images of every issue of this image-rich resource from its beginnings in 1888 through December of 2020. Browse full issues or use the advanced search to find specifically relevant articles, ads, or map supplements.
General web collections
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online CatalogAbout 1.2 million searchable images from the Library of Congress's pictorial holdings. Also consider the LOC's Digital Collections, which include collections from the Prints and Photographs Division.
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Harper's Bazaar 1867-1900Archive available through Cornell.
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VADS, the Visual Arts Data ServiceBased at the Farnham Campus of the University College for the Creative Arts in Great Britain, this site offers over freely available 100,000 images in many specific organized and searchable collections.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art CollectionsOver 260,000 images of art works, including costumes and clothing from a wide range of eras. Lots of convenient ways to narrow and focus search. Over 16,000 images of costume items since 1900, nearly 8,000 from between 1800 and 1900, about 2500 from the years between 1600 & 1800, and hundreds more from earlier centuries.
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Siam Costumes Cutters Guide Image LibraryLarge collection of rare 19th and 20th century costumes
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We Wear Culture from Google Arts & CultureProduced in collaboration with over 180 partner institutions. Visual and narrative presentations of themed explorations of fashion in culture. Searchable.
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Fashion History Timeline"an open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe."
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Important Limiters for searching Google Images
You can limit your results in Google to pages from specific sites or kinds of sites by including along with your search terms text such as site:wtamu.edu or, for all colleges and universities but only colleges and universities, site:.edu.
This way, even when searching Google Images, you're more likely to get archival content from university collections.
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