LibGuides: *Interior Design & Home Furnishings Subject Guide: Visual Resources

Visual Resources

Architecture and Interior Design for Twentieth Century America
The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. They are located primarily in the northeastern United States, mainly the New York City area, and Florida.

Artstor via JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital library of over one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences. From the linked JSTOR homepage, click the "Images" tab to search the visual materials collection.
BiblioBoard Anthologies This link opens in a new window
Contains anthologies, which are curated collections of books, images, documents, artifacts, sounds and video related to a specific theme. BiblioBoard's anthologies differ in size and scope, but generally you will find dozens of books and other pieces of media related to a topic.

Color Matters
a website dedicated to use of colors
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America contains over 5,612,233 digitized images, from collections and museums all over America.
Great Buildings Collection
This gateway to architecture around the world, and across history, documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, selected over ten years by the editors of Architecture Week, with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a collaborative of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of over 17 million titles digitized from libraries around the world.

NYPL Digital Library
An online repository of images from the New York Public Library. Images have been collected from primary sources.
Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Collections
The digital images available on this site represent a broad cross-section of the holdings of the Smithsonian Museum.

Copyright & Visual Resources

Copyright is important when considering what visual resources to use in your project. Please remember that citation and attribution rules still apply. For more information about copyright and where to find images for your projects, check out the Copyright: Visual and Digital Resources Guide listed above.

For quick reference of visual resources, check out some popular links and databases below. Not all of them are copyright free, so please remember to check the rights statements on each image.

Creative Commons (Images, video, music)
Search millions of items licensed under Creative Commons and available to share, use, and remix.
Wikimedia Commons
A database of millions of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute or download.