These websites organize online images for scholarly use with many archival and art images.
See the page for Dickinson's Visual Resources Center.
These are image databases that you have access to as a Dickinson College student. ARTstor is the largest and premier database for art and architecture images online.
Explore quality images covering the visual arts, architecture, archaeology, fashion, geography, the performing arts, science, and technology. Collections feature visual media from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists, which have been rights-cleared for educational use. ***It is necessary to turn off your browser's pop-up blocker for ARTstor to work properly.*** Recommended instructions for using ARTstor on JSTOR are available. A video on how to refine image searches in JSTOR is also available. Coverage: all eras, contains primary sources. Full text.
Access eBooks, museum exhibitions, images, lesson plans and bibliographic guides on fashion and related fields, including the full text of the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and an extensive color image bank through Bloomsbury Fashion Central. Coverage: varies, contains primary sources. Full text.
Access photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography, from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. This collection is part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO). Coverage: 1840s to 1910s, contains primary sources. Full text.
Many museums are now offering high quality scans of their collections online for use by students and scholars.