Core Databases

• AP Images 1826 - present AP Images includes Associated Press primary source material comprised of captioned photographs, maps, charts, logos, illustrations, news stories, audio clips, etc. from the 1800 s to 48 hours ago. ... View AP Images Online
• Art Museum Image Gallery The Art Museum Image Gallery features over 150,000 high-quality images and related multimedia from distinguished museums around the world. The images have a full description and span artistic creat... View Art Museum Image Gallery Online
• ARTstor ARTstor provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, along with a suite of software tools for teaching and research. Collections include image contr... View ARTstor Online
• Associated Press Collections Online (1848-2009) 1848-2009 The Associated Press Online Archive is a collection of news stories, in various stage of production, covering major local, regional, and national stories from 1848 to 2009. This fully-searchable da... View Associated Press Collections Online (1848-2009) Online
• Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur Current Database of about 2 million images of art and architecture from 13 countries in Europe. Images are from about 80 partners, including museums and cultural heritage agencies, research institutions an... View Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur Online
• Birds of North America Online, The The Birds of North America Online (BNA Online) is a comprehensive and current reference work detailing the life histories of North American birds. The series provides detailed scientific informatio... View Birds of North America Online, The Online
• Bridgeman Art Library Archive With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman represents international museums, galleries and artists by providing a central source of fine art for image users. Ev... View Bridgeman Art Library Archive Online
• Credo Reference Dates Vary This "Premium" edition of Credo Reference is a collection of more than 600 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, stati... View Credo Reference Online

Also Helpful Databases

• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent This online collection is maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. It contains digitized images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of... View Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent Online
• ARS Image Gallery The ARS Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. Select a category from the left t... View ARS Image Gallery Online
• Artists' Book Collection This database is an illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists’ Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, the Artists’ Book Collection conta... View Artists' Book Collection Online
• Atlas of Human Anatomy Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy includes an image bank of some of Netter's classic anatomy and pathology illustrations along with many diagnostic imaging examples that capture anatomy the way it is... View Atlas of Human Anatomy Online
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection 1800's and 1900's The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also... View David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Online
• East Asian Collection, The The East Asian Collection includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Currently, the collection consists of images that document early 20t... View East Asian Collection, The Online
• First World War 1910-1925 The First World War Portal consists of three modules each representing different presentations of the First World War, using a vast array of primary source materials drawn from several archives and... View First World War Online
• JSTOR Global Plants Current JSTOR Global Plants is a community-contributed database where hundreds of herbaria worldwide share more than two million high-resolution images of plant type specimens and related information. Part... View JSTOR Global Plants Online
• London Low Life Taking as its subject Victorian London, the content ranges from salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thor... View London Low Life Online
• Picture Collection Online, The images created before 1923 Picture Collection Online is a collection of "30,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created befor... View Picture Collection Online, The Online
• Publishers' Bindings Online 1815-1930: The Art of Books PBO is a searchable database of decorative trade bindings produced by American publishers in the 19th and early twentieth centuries, with accompanying explanation, teaching materials, and other res... View Publishers' Bindings Online 1815-1930: The Art of Books Online
• RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale) The only international, cross-genre index of visual sources of music, dance, and theatre, designed to assist performers, historians, librarians, instrument makers, record manufacturers, and book pu... View RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale) Online
• SouthEast Asian images & Texts project (SEAiT) Dates Vary SouthEast Asian images & Texts brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and ... View SouthEast Asian images & Texts project (SEAiT) Online
• Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels 1950s - Present Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels. Here are the works of artists alo... View Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels Online
• University of Wisconsin Collection, The Dates vary. (Updates vary) When does an aggregation of "stories" become a "history"? The history of the University of Wisconsin is far too colorful and texture-rich to be told in a single document. Within these collections y... View University of Wisconsin Collection, The Online