Research Guides: *Dance: Find Images

Find Images

Artstor is one of the few databases at FSU where you must create an account. This process is free, fast, and it gives you full access to all Artstor capabilities such as saving and downloading images.

Artstor will be retired on August 1, 2024 and all content, resources, and functionality will be moved to JSTOR. For more information, see the Artstor migration guide and Artstor on JSTOR videos collection.

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Artstor is a digital library more than 1.5 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Artstor will be retired on August 1, 2024—all content, resources, and functionality is moving to JSTOR. For more information, see the Artstor migration guide and Artstor on JSTOR videos.
The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.

Tutorials:
Using ARTstor
Training videos on YouTube

Abbreviation: artstor
Vendor: ARTstor
Subjects: Archaeology, Architecture, Art Education, Art History, Art Therapy, Classics, Cultural Heritage, Interior Design, Museum Studies, Studio Art
Type: Images

ARTstor Support
Artstor's website includes an excellent quick start guide, troubleshooting advice, as well as a section on what's new.
ARTstor Tutorials
ARTstor's official YouTube channel.

British Library Images Online
Images Online is the Picture library of the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom.
DigiNole @ FSU
Florida State University's Digital Library and Research Repository. Provides online access to thousands of unique manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, books and maps, and other materials from across the FSU campus libraries and beyond.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Europeana Collections
An open access conglomeration of libraries and archives across Europe.
Florida Memory
Florida Memory is a digital outreach program providing free online access to select archival resources from collections housed in the State Library and Archives of Florida.
Getty Images Archival Image Library
A global archival offering of defining cultural moments, places and iconic personalities from the historical to the present-day.
Library of Congress
Official Flickr photostream.
LIFE Archive
Hosted by Google.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore 678,922 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

Artcyclopedia
Browse entries by artist name, movement, medium, subject, or nationality.
Digital Scriptorium
Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. Our website unites scattered resources from many institutions into a national digital platform for teaching and scholarly research.
Duke University Ad*Access Advertising Collection
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

Europeana This link opens in a new window
Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more from European archives, libraries and museums with sophisticated search and filter tools.
Abbreviation: europeana
Vendor: European Union
Subjects: Archaeology, Art History, Cultural Heritage, Geography, History, Literature, Music
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Images, Maps, Music Scores, Newspapers and Newswires, Open Access, Streaming Audio, Streaming Video

The Index of Christian Art
Archive of medieval art, describing and presenting iconographic subjects and images, without geographical limitation, from early apostolic times to the early modern era.
Library of Congress Digital Library
Find collections of digitized photographs, books, sound recordings, and other archival documents here.
Perseus Digital Library
Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. We are applying what we have learned from Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond.
PHAROS: The International Consortium of Photo Archives
Using a group of 97,075 images of Italian works of art represented in 8 of the PHAROS photoarchives, this tool examines the potential of visual searching in the pursuit of research.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
This Gallery is meant to be a landing page for interested researchers to explore some of the many digitized collections held at the Smithsonian. You can explore by Arts & Design, History & Culture, or by individual Smithsonian repositories and museums.
Smithsonian Libraries Image Gallery
A selection of book illustrations, photos, drawings, and other images from across the Libraries.
University of Washington Digital Collections
This site features materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the University of Washington Libraries (including Special Collections), University of Washington Faculty and Departments, and organizations that have participated in partner projects with the UW Libraries. The collections emphasize rare and unique materials.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a searchable database of European fine arts and architecture (3rd-19th centuries), currently containing over 48.600 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.