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Find Textiles & Apparel Images

Ad*Access This link opens in a new window
Most current file. Unlimited users.
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund.
Concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
Updated regularly. Comprised of over 2.5 million digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. Focuses on, but is not limited to, the arts. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images as well as by art historians.
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DASE (Digital Archive Services) Collection This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
DASE is a web-based repository for digital images, sound, video and documents. Material on this site may be used for educational purposes by current faculty, students, and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. Use of these materials and resources is restricted by applicable license agreements and copyright law.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) contains metadata records —information describing an item —for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Each record links to the original object on the content provider’s website. The DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Most current edition. 8 users.
Updated daily. Provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
Covers the artistic traditions of the world's leading cultures, countries, cities, towns, and regions as well as important archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings. Includes over 45,000 signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present as well as over 40,000 web links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world. Both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more) are included.
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Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
1892 - present. Unlimited users.
The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
The Vogue Archive also features specialist indexing of full-page images from photo features. This has been newly created by Condé Nast, with expert indexers using controlled lists to apply keywords to each separate image within a document. There are separate designated fields for Fashion Item (e.g. kimono, Breton jacket, scoop neckline), Person Pictured, Company/brand, Designer Name and Material (e.g. chiffon, wool).

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General Image Websites

ALA Digital Images Collections Guide American Library Association's own guide to good sources for images across an amazing number of fields in the Sciences and Humanities. Some links may periodically change. If so, search the web for the site.
Condé Nast Vintage Fashion Photographs
Flickr The Commons Not just personal collections of pictures on this site. Has expanded after a joint venture between Flickr and the Library of Congress. Purpose is to increase access to publicly held image collections. Includes images with no known copyright restrictions which you can find by using Advance Search. Growing number of collections like the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Briitsh Library, etc. are placing their material on this site. You can also help tag these images.
Google Images Can search by keyword. If go to Advance Search can filter by usage rights and bring up images that are free to use. Also works when you have an unknown image. Do a reverse images search by taking a URL for an image or the image itself image from your computer and then go to Google Images and drop it into the Image Search Bar and find out what it is. Method works best if that image already exists somewhere on the web
Library of Congress Prints and Photgraphs Online Catalog Huge collection of images, both national and international in scope. When copyright is an issue, only thumbnails are provided. When images are in the public domain, images are available for download, although resolutions vary. Includes the American Memory Project of digitized American history material.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery (NYPL) Free and open access to over 800,000 images that are digitized from the Library’s Collections. Of note in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery Arts & Literature Collections: Africana & Black History, Dance in Photographs and Prints, and the Vandamm archive featuring "theatrical personalities and production" from the 1920s-1957.
TinEye TinEye is a reverse search engine that searches billions of images. When you upload an image TinEye will provide information on other versions of that image that are available and the source of the image.
Wikimedia Commons All media repository. Unlike its partner, Wikipedia, images included here are in the public domain and freely licensed for educational use. Museums such as the Walters Art Museum, the British Museum and other museums are placing their copyright –free images on this site also.
Vivian Maier Street Photography