THEA 281: Visual Elements - Research Using Online Resources

Click through for a list of Image Databases provided by the Hunter College Libraries. You can access any of these by logging in with your NetID/password when prompted: https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases/type/8

Below are a few highlights, from Hunter as well as free, publicly accessible online resourc

ARTstor <click here to access the database - log in with your Net ID and password when prompted

ARTstor is a digital library of more than two million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. 

ARTstor's YouTube videos

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

• Be sure to explore Open Access at The Met - a collection of public domain images from the museum: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Collections: https://www.moma.org/collection/

New York Public Library Online Collections (a selection): 

• NYPL Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
  • Browse and search these collections in number of ways, including by Division (Billy Rose Theatre Division, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, etc.)
• NYPL Public Domain Search By Color: http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/
• NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection Online: http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
• Digital Schomburg (from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture): https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg

Creative Commons Search: https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/

• CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. 

Digital Public Library of America: https://dp.la/

• Portal to digital content held at the nations' archives, libraries, museums and other cultural heritage organizations.

Europeana: https://www.europeana.eu/en

• Portal to digital content held in Europe’s archives, libraries, museums and other cultural heritage organizations.

Google Arts & Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/