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If you use web images in your project, you must ensure good quality
reproductions and give appropriate credit. See Citing
Your Sources.
Databases Containing Images
Drama Research Guide > Image Research > Databases with Images
The UConn Libraries subscribe to several databases that contain reproductions of photographs, drawings, paintings, and other visual art. These databases may be helpful for primary visual research, including period costume. Note: off-campus users must use their UConn NetIDs to access the databases.
- American
Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
- Contains images of more than 1,100 American magazines and journals from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. It includes popular magazines like Vanity Fair, Ladies' Home Journal, and Godey's Lady's Book (helpful for identifying illustrations of costume items). To find articles containing images, select one or more image types in the Illustrations search box. (Note to drama students: this database may not be as image-rich as others. The same applies to a similar database, Early American Newspapers (1690-1876).)
- Art
Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
- Indexes 450 art and art history publications from 1929 to the present.
- ARTstor
- Contains approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology and descriptive information, as well as software tools to enable active use of the collections. Search Tips: (1) Select the “Artist” field to find citations of reproductions of works by that artist. (2) For articles about the artist and his/her work, search for the artist’s name in the "Subject" field. (3) To find articles that contain illustrations, select "Illustration" under the Physical Description menu.
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Associated Press Multimedia Archive
- Photos from AP's
50 million image print and negative library. Covers
most major news events photographed from the
1840s to within minutes of an event today.
Designers: you can do concept or color searching, but
this is no longer explained in AP's Help.
- For a concept search, type term:concept, e.g., pensive:concept
- For a color search, type term:hue,
e.g., purple:hue
Sample concept terms: adulation, aggression, amusement, anger, bizarre, boredom, burden, celebration, cold, comic, concentration, concern, confinement, confrontation, content, contrast, curious, cute, defeat, deserted, despair, destruction, determined, devout, diligence, dry, enjoyment, excitement, family, fear, freedom, friendship, grief, happy, hot, humor, isolation, lonely, love, mature, meditative, pain, passion, peaceful, pensive, poor, power, pride, reverence, searching, serene, hock, solemn, spacious, speed, stark, strong, suffer, surprise, tension, thin, tired, tranquil, vanity, violent, weak, wealth, wet, wonder and youth.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- Will contain "digital facsimile page images
of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland,
Scotland, Wales and British North America and works
in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700." Search
by author, title, printer, publication date, type of
illustration, and Library of Congress subject
heading. Publications are also listed in HOMER, with
links to the full text.
- Images
from the History of Medicine
- From the U.S. National Library of Medicine
(NLM). Includes portraits, pictures of institutions,
caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a
variety of media, illustrating the social and
historical aspects of medicine.
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JSTOR
- Contains digitized copies of complete runs of
hundreds of scholarly journals, many of which contain
illustrations and art reproductions. To search image
captions, select JSTOR's Advanced Search, type the
search term(s), then use the adjacent drop-down menu
to select the "caption" field. In the list of
journals, you can also select "Art" to limit your
results to art journals (though many non-art journal
also have images).
- New York
Times Historical
- A full-image archive of the entire historical
run of The New York Times; complete coverage from
1851-2000. Includes display and classified ads,
comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc.
- Oxford
Art Online
- Contains Grove Arts Online, a major art encyclopedia. Search by artist's name (e.g., Picasso), title of work (e.g., Venus AND Adonis), date (e.g., BC or 1935), location of work (e.g., London or Tate Gallery), or style (e.g., Expressionism). Has browsable sections by themes and art forms, and includes links to images at external sites.
- Rhizome
- Includes ArtBase, which contains over 1,800 digital art works, and TextBase which holds over 2,500 new media art-related articles.
- Women and
Social Movements in the United States
- More than 1,000 documents and 400 images on movements ranging from the Women's Suffrage Movement to the Guerrilla Girls.
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