Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web

"Adventures deep inside the comic book.'

One of the first comic books printed in the U.S., published ca. 1840. From Dartmouth Library Collection.

Association of American Editorial Cartoonists cartoons dating from 1782 to 1980, the majority from the 1960s and '70s. From University of Southern Mississippi.

A collection of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings from Southern Methodist University Libraries Digital Collections.

John Jacob Omenhausser, was a Confederate soldier imprisoned at the Union camp at Pt. Lookout, Maryland from June 1864 to July 1865. Here in this sketchbook, he documents prison life in vibrant watercolor drawings. Available through JSTOR.

Collection of over 700 pieces of paper money from 1709 to 1878. From Harvard Digital Collections.

"A consortium of non-profit printmakers' councils in the United States and Canada."

Library of Congress collection.

Early works of the American Impressionist artist. University of Tennessee -- Knoxville Libraries.

"A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives."

The double elephant folio from the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library.

From Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library.

University of Florida collection of over 6000 digitized books.

2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. From the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of the Library of Congress.

Blog about comics with lots of links to other resources.

"Unique collection of printed ephemera contains over 1,300 items with architectural imagery spanning the dates 1850 to 1920." From Columbia University Libraries.

Searchable collections from Ohio State University.

Wide variety of bookplates.

Includes links to many online zine resources.

Includes many public domain images in subject based albums.

Finding aid from the Online Archive of California.

Blog about comic books.

Non-profit dedicated to the art of the print.

From UC Berkeley Library.

More than 2,000 playbills and programs dating from 1848 to 1922. From Chicago Public Library.
Note: May contain offensive materials.

Drawings made by child evacuees. From Columbia University Libraries.

From Columbia University Libraries.

19th century prints from exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum.

Menus dating from the 1930s to today. From Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library.

Prints from a variety of late 19th century and early 20th century publications. From the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library.

List of links maintained by Collageart.org

Site for public domain comic books and related materials.

Plates from Klinger, Julius. Das Weib im modernen Ornament [Woman in Modern Ornament]: ein Vorlagenwerk fur alle Gebriete des Kunstgewerbes Teil I. Berlin: Albert Brinitzer, Verlag fur Freie und Angewandte Kunst, [1902]. From Minneapolis College of Art and Design via JSTOR.

Public domain comics from the Golden Age.

Contains materials dating between 1910 and 1932, and consists of published advertising and marketing brochures, maps, guides and general information about automobiles. From Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.

Cartoons that appeared in "The Sunday School Times" in the first half of the 20th century. From Biola University.

From the University of Connecticut.

The collection covers a period between the late 19th century and the 1980s. From Pepperdine University via JSTOR.

Collection of portrait prints and illustrations relating to 17th century British history. From the University of Leicester via JSTOR.

One of the first comic books written in the U.S., published in the 1850s. From Dartmouth Library Collection.

Old website with biographical information and examples of works.

Images related to theater, especially Shakespeare. From UPenn via JSTOR.

Blog entry about the American Antiquarian Society's historical game collections with information about researching the catalog. Many entries have links to images.

Old site from Worcester College at Oxford. Searchable but does not include images.

Biographical and bibliographical information.

"Exhibitions, acquisitions, and other highlights from the Graphic Arts Collection, Princeton University Library."

From Texas State University Libraries.

Helpful site for identifying characteristics of different printmaking and photography techniques.

Scientific and medical illustrations from historical books from Stockholm library.

Bookplates from college and university libraries across the country as well as personal collections. From Muhlenberg College via JSTOR.

Exhibition about the political cartoonist, from the Library of Congress.

Digitized illustrations from editions of El Quijote held at the John Hay Library.

Work by Genevieve Estelle Jones. From the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library.

Features photography and published media used by the British to document mainly Indian sites and people. From Wofford College via JSTOR.

"The not for profit foundation the International Advertising & Design DataBase was founded in the Netherlands in 2014."

Illustrations from public domain books. On Flickr.

Huge collection of digitized commercial catalogs. May be searched for subtopics.

Site compiling the work of the French printmaker and his family, along with biographical and other information.

"Examples from 1940-1975, mostly published in the Nashville Banner newspaper, concerning World War II, Vietnam, local and presidential politics." From Nashville Public Library.

Consists primarily of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Selected for their illustrations of buildings in lower Manhattan, these pieces of stationery include rare images of the city's commercial architecture. From Columbia University Libraries.

Audubon Society site offering free high resolution images of the prints from this work.

British history through graphic arts, strongest in 18th-20th century materials. Reproduction in academic journals is free but permission must be obtained first.

Consists of 415 educational public health campaign slides from mainland China. Available through JSTOR.

Primarily 19th century works from Great Britain and the US. From Dartmouth Library Collections.
Note: Contains offensive material.

Full scans of the German art magazine from 1896-1940, Good source for German Art Nouveau.

Anatomical book by Johann Remmelin, published in 1661. Features movable flaps that can be raised to show various anatomical features. From the Internet Archive.

Plates from the satirical French weekly. From Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.

Plates from the satirical French weekly. From Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.

"To document and celebrate the artistic and cultural heritage of working people and the labor movement, and encourage understanding of their often overlooked contributions to our society."

"Illustrated compendium of over 14,000 comic artists from around the world.?

Collections of the Media History Digital Library, an open access database of media periodicals in the public domain. Includes film, broadcasting, and recorded sound/music magazines.

This collection contains lavishly illustrated early U.S. bicycle and bicycle parts manufacturers’ catalogs covering the period from 1890 through 1932, with the great majority published between 1890 and 1902. From Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.

Anatomical drawings from 1750 until 1900.

18th to 19th century popular prints from the Netherlands and Belgium.

"Consists of around 12,000 drawings of mostly Dutch origin, dating from 1500 until now."

Early 18th century botanical drawings of medicinal plants from Ceylon.

The Seikei Zusetsu agricultural encyclopedia on Japanese agriculture (1793-ca. 1804). Woodblock prints.

More than 100,000 European prints from 1500 until the present time.

Online archive of non-profit center with collections in lettering, calligraphy, typography, and graphic design.

Searchable in its entirety or by specific collections. Public domain images may be freely downloaded, though resolution may be limited.

Illustrated envelopes with themes relating to Lincoln.

Includes photographs, engravings, and popular prints.

Lithographic portraits of locomotive trains. From Boston Athenaeum.

Over 1,400 bookplates.

Representation of culinary history of California.

Online exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art on 21st century art magazines.

Collection of Napoleonic satirical prints produced between 1792 and 1829 from Germany, Britain, France, Holland, Russia, by such noted artists as James Gillray and George Cruikshank. Most have also been archived in Luna Insight.

Website for the museum located in Newport, R.I.

Stamps! A division of the Smithsonian Institution.

Digitized newsletters, event posters, flyers and other printed materials from Michigan's indigenous tribes and community organizations. From Grand Valley State University via JSTOR.

Hundreds of thousands of items, on topics ranging from menus to LGBTQ+ history to dance, science, and much more.

Digitized dime novels from the Albert Johannsen and Edward T. LeBlanc Collections at Northern Illinois University. Includes illustrated novels.

Museum site for the American illustrator.

About 2000 images of stamps from 1963 to 2017. From University of Chicago.

Complete set of images from the 1883 publication. From Dartmouth via JSTOR.

Library of Congress collection.

Blog about the golden age of comic books.

Older website with images of covers.

Tthis collection contains fine examples of printed and hand-colored taufscheins (birth and baptismal certificates), vorshrifts (writing examples), haus segens (house blessings), bucherzeichen (book plates), and drawings created by Pennsylvania Germans. From Franklin & Marshall College via JSTOR.

A digital collection prepared by Susan Smulyan and her students to interpret a Japanese scroll found in the Library's collections that documents the visit of Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan in 1854.

Works of 20th century American cartoonist. From Biola University.

Collection of nearly 400 buttons, many of them displaying a political message. From UConn.

Over 1500 buttons from the 20th and 21st centuries representing U.S. campaigns. From Harvard Digital Collections.

Gallery offering original cartoons but images may also be browsed online.

From Indiana University Libraries.

"An online edition of The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists by Timothy A. Riggs...The database now contains entries for European and American prints, print publishers, drawings, and photographs; and Japanese prints and photographs."

Vast digital collection of military artwork from the 16th through 20th centuries. From Brown Digital Repository.

"The print collection documents the work of New England printmakers and contains a wide array of printmaking techniques, including engravings, etchings, aquatints, lithographs, wood cuts, and silk-screens."

The collection is made up of engravings, lithographs, woodcuts and illustrated book material ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. From University of Divinity via JSTOR.

"These works were generally, though not always, produced by corporations and other business entities for the purposes of advertising a product, managing a company's public image, or providing consumer education." From Hagley Museum & Library.

Blog featuring classic pulp novel covers.

Resource for collectors of comic books.

Works dating from 1891 to 1912 from Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.

500 images from the Morgan Library's collection of Rembrandt etchings. or high resolution images, patrons must contact the Library.

Historical Rhode Island election tickets (ballots), digitized and sourced from several archival collections around the state. From URI via JSTOR.

French weekly magazine founded in Paris in 1863 and was published without interruption until 1970. Available through JSTOR.

Compiled by Rhode Island watercolor artist, Abigail Whipple Cooke. The prints were collected from various turn-of-the century magazines such as Harper's, Collier's, Scribner's and McClure's, and compiled in a scrapbook. Available through JSTOR.

Pulp fiction paperback covers from the 1930s to 1960s, available through JSTOR.

RISD Library Picture Collection vintage advertisement clippings from Ladies Home Journal, Life Magazine and more, 1930-1950's. Predominately vintage cereal and Coca-Cola advertisements. Available through JSTOR.

Magazine Covers from the RISD Picture Collection, available through JSTOR.

Magazine Covers from the RISD Picture Collection, available through JSTOR.

"Includes 146 images of buildings, streetscapes, events, and scenes of daily life of Richmond, Virginia." From Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.

From UC Berkeley Library.

Political cartoons about Senator from West Virginia. From West Virginia University.

110 titles in 378 issues, primarily journals but also includes newspapers, broadsides, and illustrated periodicals. From University of Chicago.

Scrapbook maintained by 19th century British woman. From Birkbeck, University of London via JSTOR.

Blog about classic cartoonists.

Two portfolios published in the 1920s using the pochoir technique. From NC State.

Over 300 bookplates designed by Smith (1845-1929). From Boston Athenaeum.

Full scans of the German satirical magazine from 1896-1944 with biographical information on contributors.

Features examples from over forty countries with the earliest U.S. stickers from the Industrial Workers of the World dating to the 1910s. From St. Lawrence University via JSTOR.

Cartoons from the late 1930s and early 1940s. From Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.

"A broad sampling of cover images from popular literature, including dime novels, pulp magazines, books in series for juveniles, fashion and homemaking magazines, comics, science fiction and adventure stories"

Created by and for Professor Evelyn Lincoln and her students, this site contains images from printed books and other material published in the 16th through the 18th centuries about the city of Rome.

Library of Congress site.

Collection of 184 British satirical prints dating from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries in collections of Trinity College, Hartford. Available via JSTOR.

"The first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels."

Over 1500 drawings by the cartoonist. Available through JSTOR.

"The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase A. Lapham's most important published work, was the result of his interest in the Indian effigy mounds found on Wisconsin's Landscape...ncludes 92 pages of text, illustrated with 61 wood engravings, and 55 lithographed plates."

"This collection of books represents the earliest depictions of the Ainu by the Japanese... [They] are either hand-written, with illustrations hand-drawn, or are wood block prints."

"This online collection, originally published in venues as disparate as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th centuries."

"This online collection focuses on early modern Jesuit iconography pertaining to scholarship and travel."

"Fifteen titles of Edo-period (1600-1868) Japanese woodblock-printed books are included in this online collection. The books are predominantly pictorial, with illustrations designed by artists such as Nishikawa Sukenobu, Katsushika Hokusai, Kono Bairei and Ando Hiroshige."

Providence Public Library site featuring historical portrait prints of printers and booksellers.

British prints: "spans the years 1508 to 1939, with some ephemera of the 1940s and 1950s and a separate collection of post-1960 additions. The collection is strongest in 19th and early 20th century ephemera, with significant holdings in the 18th century."

Mostly British ephemera. "The collection is retrospective and spans the years 1508 to 1939, with some ephemera of the 1940s and 1950s and a separate collection of post-1960 additions. The collection is strongest in 19th and early 20th century ephemera, with significant holdings in the 18th century."

"Consists of over 40,000 Programmes, from the very first Programme of the Opening ceremony in front of Queen Victoria in March 1871 to last night's event!"

"Digitized from the classic works of the German veterinary anatomists, Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum, and medical illustrator, Hermann Dittrich." Published in 1898 and 1911 through 1925, all entitled Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler. Public domain images from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"American born Jewish cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. The collection includes book covers, magazine and newspaper illustrations, cartoons, manuscript materials, and images of printed and original art." From Syracuse University Libraries.

From Columbia University Libraries.

Preserves the research library of its creator, author of The Illustrator in America and monographs on several leading 20th century illustrators. From Washington University in St Louis via JSTOR.

84 watercolor drawings by 19th century railroad enthusiast William Halsey. From Southern Methodist University Libraries Digital Collections.

Includes coins and stamps collected by Xavier faculty, staff, and Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Available via JSTOR.