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Finding and Using Images

Links to online image databases and websites; suggestions on searching for images in print publications; tools for presenting images; information on citing images; and guides to copyright information

Graphic Design

Ad*Access (Duke University)
U.S. and Canadian advertisements dated between 1911 and 1955
AdFlip
Searchable online database of print advertisements from the 1940s to the 2000s.
Art Crimes: the Writing on the Wall
Graffiti photos and images from around the world

ARTstor (available from JSTOR) This link opens in a new window
As of August 2024, Artstor content and key functionality are now accessed from JSTOR.

Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin)
Emergence of Advertising Art in America: 1850-1920 (Duke University)
Graphic Design in Travel Ephemera
Symbols.com
Contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
VADS: Visual Arts Data Service
Material culture, design, fashion, crafts, and political posters and prints.

ARTstor

For descriptions of the numerous collections within ARTstor, follow this link.

ARTstor Collections