Arkyves is a database, treasure trove and toolbox for those interested in the History of Culture. It is a single access point for thematic searches across a wide variety of cultural heritage collections, contributed by partners like the Dutch Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Herzog August Bibliothek, and the university libraries of Milan, Utrecht, Glasgow, and the University of Illinois.

Features varied treasures of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive available to libraries worldwide. Exploring the history and back story of the venerable Associated Press—decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more

Includes the ARTstor Digital Library-a nonprofit resource that provides over 3 digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Its community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Explore a stunning collection of rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that reveals the socio-cultural history of these times. Filter to drawing, illustration, painting, etc, in the "document type" menu for images.

Provides access to print and manuscript materials documenting the history of Illinois as well as Abraham Lincoln's life and legacy. The collection includes Approximately 35,000 printed volumes and 1,000 manuscript collections as well as numerous maps, photographs, ephemera, and other materials.

Now in its 11th year, the Image of Research has a graduate and undergraduate competition every year. Entries are hosted in IDEALS.

Krannert Art Museum's permanent collection includes more than 11,000 works of art.

Located on the fourth floor of the Main Library, the Map Library includes maps, atlases, and Illinois aerial photography flown between 1935 and 2005. The collection includes more than 630,000 items.

The collections include nearly 500,000 volumes and just over two linear miles of manuscript material, and encompass the broad areas of literature, history, art, theology, philosophy, technology, and the natural sciences.

The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures includes cultural and archaeological collections from throughout history and across the globe.

Collections are diverse in scope and include topics such as American music, student life and culture, University history, faculty papers, and professional associations.

Hosted by Flickr, The Commons is a public photo collection that began in 2008 as a collaboration between Flickr and the Library of Congress. It has since expanded to include the collections of over 45 institutions including NASA, the Imperial War Museum, and the New York Public Library.

Here you will find records representing a sampling of collections created by the libraries and cultural heritage organizations using CONTENTdm today. Some records represent individual collections; some connect you to entire digital libraries. Each record attempts to describe the breadth and depth of the resources you will find when you access the site using the URL listed in each record. Sample collections include images of of actors, aerial views, posters, and woodblock prints.

Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.

A free tool that makes millions of digital images of art and artifacts from around the world easy to access. Users can search across collections, or view curated collections and editorial features.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.

Europeana provides access to over six million digital items, including images, texts, sounds, and videos. It is funded by the European Commission and its member states, and includes content from museum, galleries, libraries, archives, and audio-visual collections. The extensive list of organizations that Europeana pulls its content from includes notable institutions such as the Rijksmuseum, the British Library, and the Louvre.

Serving as a gateway to archival resources about Chicago, Explore Chicago contains over 100,000 digitized images covering the city's architecture, people, politics, history, culture and more.

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application that currently contains over 6 billion photos and video. Amateur and professional photographers alike share their content via Creative Commons licenses, and join communities centered around themes such as architecture and urban design or dance. The Flickr Commons provides access to public domain images sourced from photography archives from over 100 institutions.

Graphics Atlas presents an object-based approach for the identification and characterization of prints and photographs and their processes.

The Harry Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum. Its extensive holdings provide a unique record of the creative process of writers and artists, deepening our understanding of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. The Center maintains a Guide to Collections to help users identify relevant materials.

HEIR contains digitised historic photographic images from all over the world dating from the late nineteenth century onwards. HEIR’s core images come from lantern slide and glass plate negatives held in college, library, museum and departmental collections within the University of Oxford. New resources are being added all the time, including collections from outside the University.

Includes numerous collections that are openly available to the public, as well as some that are subscription based. Content covers topics ranging from science to poetry. This site is easy to navigate and contains high quality images and video. Users may browse by format.

Contains 252 digital collections, and thousands of individual items including maps, photographs, letters, diaries, newspapers, oral histories, sound recordings,historic films, and images.

As described, "The LUNA Commons is where public collections are aggregated and viewed in our powerful LUNA browser. While most other collection building tools create isolated collections we’ve built a system that allows institutions to easily share and promote their public collections. The LUNA Commons provides free access to hundreds of thousands of images from reputable sources for educational and public use" The Commons includes collections such as the Catena Historic Gardens and Landscapes, the Cornell Political Americana Collection, the Hoover Institution's Collection of Russian posters, the Online Archive of California, the John Carter Brown Library's Early American Images, and historical maps from the David Rumsey Collection, Japanese Historical Maps, and Maps of Africa.

The archives of mission 21 / Basel Mission contain historical photographs, written records, printed and hand-drawn maps, and building plans about the "intersection of African, European, and Asian cultures from 1850-1950." The images were taken in the historic Basel Mission fields in Africa and Asia, with a principal focus on Ghana, Cameroon, South India (mainly Karnataka and Kerala), South China (mainly Hakka-speaking parts of the Guangdong province and Hong Kong), and Kalimantan. Users can search by keyword, or browse by theme, geographic location, named individuals, institutions, photographers, or original series grouping.

New York Public Library's Digital Gallery provides free access to 550,000 images from rare primary sources in the NYPL's collection, including including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. Although one won't find well known artworks here, the variety of resources found provides extraordinary supplemental information.

A meta-site featuring collections with no restrictions. Users can search for collections, or browse by tag or location.

An online journal with a focus on public domain material, specifically "curiosities and wonders" from a wide range of archives. While there is a search feature, content is broken up into themed essays and is best used for browsing.

Search over 6.4 million records with 536,000 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

The SIRIS image gallery contains over 266,000 images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian Institution. The content of the images is wide ranging, including categories such as aircraft, Latino culture, and American gardens. Images are organized by medium, culture, and archive. In addition, the collection offers extensive search capabilities. The Smithsonian welcomes you to make fair use of the content as defined by copyright law.

More than 5.1 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian Collections across 21 museums and 9 research centers.

The digital collections of the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are built from the rich special collections of its Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Illinois History and Lincoln Collection, University Archives; Map Library; and Sousa Archives & Center for American Music, among other units. The collections include historic photographs; maps; prints and watercolors; bookplates; architectural drawings and blueprints; letters and other archival materials; videos; political cartoons; and advertisements. They cover a wide range of subject areas including Illinois and American history, music, theater history, and the history of the University of Illinois, among others. The Library’s digital collections provide access to some of its most unique holdings for teaching, learning, and research for students, scholars and the general public.

From Merriam-Webster, the Visual Dictionary includes more than 6,000 images indexed by theme, such as food and kitchen.

Developed by the Wellcome Library, one of the world's major resources for medical history, Wellcome Images mainly focuses on images related to medicine and biomedical science. However, there are numerous disciplinary images and galleries, and the over 100,000 freely available high resolution images makes this collection worth looking at.

The WikiMedia Commons makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media. Maintained by volunteers, users can upload their own images, request images, identify images, and subscribe to syndicated feeds.

The mission of the WDL is to "make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." There is a wide variety of content from numerous institutions.

WorldImages Kiosk provides access to California State University's IMAGE project, providing access to over over 50,000 images. The database includes portfolios organized into topics such as daily life, philosophy, and revolution, which are then further subdivided. While this enables browsing, it can be difficult to navigate. One can view all of the portfolios by clicking on the "portfolios list" in the menu. The images found in these collections are large and good quality, and can even be zoomed in on with software called 'zoomify.'