Digital Image Collections

Columbia University Digital Collections

• Bunraku Collection (Japanese Puppet Theater)
  Over 12,500 digitized slides and 7,000 photographs from the Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection, C.V. Starr East Asian Library.
  
  
• Chinese Paper Gods
  Woodblock prints of Chinese household gods from the Anne S. Goodrich collection, C.V. Starr East Asian Library.
  
  
• Digital Scriptorium
  Image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions.
  
  
• Imperial Corps of Pages
  Photographs and other materials once belonging to the Russian Imperial family and the Imperial Corps of Pages, from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Bakhmeteff Archive.
  
  
• Joseph Urban Papers: New York Series
  Sketches, drawings and set models of New York theater and opera productions created from 1914 to 1933, from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
  
  
• New York Real Estate Brochure Collection
  Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library's collection documenting residential and commercial real estate development in the five boroughs of New York and outlying vicinities from the 1920s to the 1970s.
  
  
• Columbia University Libraries' Digital Collections
  
  

External Image Databases

• American Memory
  A rich collection of images and full-text documents relating to U.S. history and culture from the Library of Congress.
  
  
• ARTstor
  Over one million digital images covering the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, and other forms of visual culture.
  
  
• CAMIO
  Catalog of Art Museum Image Online is a growing collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums.
  
  
• Catena: the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes
  Historic and contemporary images focusing on the villa, an important landscape type in garden history
  
  
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: An Illustrated Catalog
  Catalog of ancient Greek and Roman vases coordinated by the Beazley Archive
  
  
• Oxford Art Online
  Gateway through which users can access Grove Art Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, and other resources. Includes image partnerships with international museums and artists. .
  
  
• NYPL Digital Gallery
  Images from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library
  
  
• Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s
  Archival photos from the collections of New York Public Library.
  
  
• More Image Databases
  
  
• More Databases of Maps and Atlases