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• AP Newsroom 1826 - present AP Newsroom 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... Access Database AP Newsroom
• 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... Access Database Art Museum Image Gallery
• 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... Access Database ARTstor
• 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... Access Database Associated Press Collections Online (1848-2009)
• 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... Access Database Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
• Birds of the World Birds of the World (formerly known as Birds of North America) is a research database that brings together scholarly content from four major works of ornithology [Birds of North America, The Handboo... Access Database Birds of the World
• 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... Access Database Bridgeman Art Library Archive
• 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... Access Database Credo Reference
• Smithsonian Open Access Access to 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections, including images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the... Access Database Smithsonian Open Access
• WGSN: Fashion 1998 - present WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) is an online news, information and fashion images database for the fashion and style industries. Coverage includes fashion trends and forecasting, design, company ... Access Database WGSN: Fashion
• WGSN: Insight WGSN Insight provides coverage and analysis into the world of consumers and is the publisher's flagship trend product. Features original and thought-provoking content on consumer, marketing, retail... Access Database WGSN: Insight
• WGSN: Lifestyle & Interiors WGSN Lifestyles & Interiors provides in-depth reports and trends on marketing strategy and experience design. It includes colour forecasts, information on material research, coverage of over 200 tr... Access Database WGSN: Lifestyle & Interiors

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• 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... Access Database Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
• APS Image Database Searchable image database drawn from APS PRESS books including the Compendium of Plant Disease Series, covering diseases, pests, and disorders of numerous plant hosts. Images are tagged with descri... Access Database APS Image Database
• 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... Access Database ARS Image Gallery
• Art & Architecture ePortal This database provides access to art and architectural history scholarship by making key backlist and out-of-print titles on a wide variety of subjects more broadly available and more widely discov... Access Database Art & Architecture ePortal
• 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... Access Database Artists' Book Collection
• 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... Access Database Atlas of Human Anatomy
• 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... Access Database David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• 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... Access Database East Asian Collection, The
• 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... Access Database First World War
• John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera 1700s - 1900s Consisting of rare archival materials that document everyday life in eighteenth- to twentieth-century Britain with full color, high-resolution images, the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemer... Access Database John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera
• 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... Access Database JSTOR Global Plants
• London Low Life 19th Century 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... Access Database London Low Life
• Paris Musées: the museums of the city of Paris Prehistory - present Catalog and image collections from the fourteen museums administrated by Paris Musées: Catacombes de Paris; Crypte archéologique de l'Ile de la Cité; Maison de Balzac; Maison de Victor Hugo; Musée ... Access Database Paris Musées: the museums of the city of Paris
• 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... Access Database Picture Collection Online, The
• 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... Access Database Publishers' Bindings Online 1815-1930: The Art of Books
• 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... Access Database RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale)
• 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 ... Access Database SouthEast Asian images & Texts project (SEAiT)
• 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... Access Database Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
• 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... Access Database University of Wisconsin Collection, The