Image Resources
This guide contains image resources available through IU Libraries (both campus specific and university-wide) as well as information about open access images.
Photographs from IUB Libraries Databases
Citations for Images (from left to right)
Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864 - 1946. (1894). The Net Mender. [Photographs, Carbon print, Photographic Process, Photography, pigment process]. Retrieved from https://library-artstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/asset/AMICO_CHICAGO_1031150514
Cindy Sherman. (1982). Untitled, #112. [Photography]. Retrieved from https://library-artstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/asset/AGUGGENHEIMIG_10313464219
Vivian Maier, American, 1926 - 2009. (no date, printed 2011, Image: 2015). Untitled, Overall view of image. [Photographs]. Retrieved from https://library-artstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/asset/AWSS35953_35953_41339655
Photograph Databases
- Archives Online at Indiana UniversityThis site is a portal for accessing descriptions of Special Collections and Archives - ones chiefly containing materials other than books - from libraries, archives, and other units at Indiana University, Bloomington, and from other institutions around the state of Indiana.
- ARTstor ImagesA digital image library of over 1,000,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
- Current Biography Illustrated (H.W. Wilson)Full text biographies, images, and obituaries from the entire run of Current Biography
- Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection15,000 Kodachrome slides by amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman (1896-1972) about his travels in the United States and abroad.
- DIDO Image BankContains approximately 30,000 images from the I.U. Fine Arts Slide Library collection encompassing the full breadth of art historical periods and media.
- Frank M. Hobenberger CollectionThe collection, dating from 1917-1960 and housed in the Lilly Library, consists primarily of photographs by Frank Michael Hohenberger, 1876-1963, Brown County photographer and newspaperman
- Image Collection (EBSCO)A searchable collection of images ranging from photographs and maps to illustrations and etchings.
- Image Collections OnlineImage Collections Online showcases image collections curated by libraries, archives, and other cultural-heritage institutions of Indiana University.
- Library of CongressSearchable catalog of items in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
- Marchand Archive (UC Davis)The Marchand Archive is a collection of more than 15,000 images and a growing number of document-based lesson plans.
- MAS Ultra-School EditionFor high school audiences. Over 500 popular interest and current events publications from 1975 to date. Includes 100,000 biographies, and 116,000 photos, maps, and flags.
- National Museum of American History-Smithsonian"The Museum has preserved advertising campaigns for several familiar companies, such as Marlboro, Alka-Seltzer, Federal Express, Cover Girl, and Nike." And More.
- National Portrait Gallery (US)"It’s always face time at the National Portrait Gallery. We tell the diverse story of America through leaders, rebels, artists, entrepreneurs, and other prominent personalities who shaped our culture."
- National Portrait Gallery (UK)"The Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women. Explore 200,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day."
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsThis site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
- Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957Popular British photojournalism magazine, full text and images
- U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971Collection of photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana.