Visual Sources

Related Research Guide

Most of the information on this page about finding images came from the LibGuide, Art, Art History, and Design; see it for more information on image searching.

Artstor
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year.
The Costume Institute Online
Search more than 31,000 costumes and accessories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
Fashion Museum Bath
Explore their Video Gallery for past clothing exhibitions.
Fashioning a Nation
A brief survey of American fashions from 1740 through 1895 from the Index of American Design collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing
An online exhibition from Colonial Williamsburg's Museum Collection.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Clothing and Textile Collection
Search the Clothing and Textile Collection.
Smithsonian Collections Search Center (online catalog)
Search over 14 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than three million online images, audio and video files, and blog posts.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Search the textile collections.