English & American Literature : 19th Century

An online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums worldwide.
Search by keyword, artist, medium, country/place, art movements, historical events, historical figures.

This internationally recognized image database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains @100,000 images, is global in coverage, and includes all areas of visual imagery.

An all-digital library that aggregates information and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums in the United States.

Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries, covering the time period 8000 BCE-2000 CE.

Explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. Holdings date back to @the 12th century. Co-funded by the European Union.

Virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts (e.g., painting, sculpture, etc.) from the 8th to mid-19th centuries.

Search for images and other Internet content from other established web sites (such as Google Images or YouTube) that the content producers stated could be used commercially and/or with modification. For example, when you use Creative Commons to search Google Images, it will return only those images that are labeled for commercial reuse with modification. (read more about Creative Commons).

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.

Brings together the Bodleian Libraries' (Oxford University) discrete digital collections under a single user interface. Includes, but is not restricted to: manuscripts, incunabula, maps, periodicals, printed and manuscript music collections.

Rich collection of primary materials. Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.

Search 400,000+ objects held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Search 2 million+ collection objects held by the British Museum.

Provides free access to 900,000+ images (some in public domain) digitized from the The NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs, streaming video, and more. Search by keyword or Browse Collections. Encompasses the Berg Collection of English and American Literature, including: printed volumes; pamphlets; broadsides; literary archives and manuscripts, representing the work of 400+ authors. Printed books in English date from William Caxton to the present day.

Over 100,000 freely available digitized images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute to search and download.

Cartoon archive for Punch, a magazine of humour and satire, which ran from 1841-2002. Its influential political and social cartoons captured life in detail from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Search across the Yale Center for British Art’s online catalogue, currently representing 100,000+ records from the Center’s collections.

The Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. It includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University.

Search millions of records of museum objects, archives and library materials including online images, audio & videos and blog posts.

An educational resource designed for teachers and students featuring primary sources from the Newberry Library's (Chicago) holdings, contextual essays, and discussion questions. See also Digital Newberry.