Recommended Internet Sources: Arts-Images-Film-Performing Arts

Primary Sources Digital covers and sheet music for more than 4500 titles. Early musicals, ethnic songs, presidential ballads, war songs, parlor songs, and popular sheets.

Illustrated books from the 16th century to the early 20th depicting the fish, birds, and animals of the world.

Primary Sources Hundreds of black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) from her Changing New York Works Progress Administration/ Federal Art Project.

Primary Sources More than 500 silver gelatin photographic prints depicting American social conditions and labor, including immigrants at Ellis Island and construction of the Empire State Building.

Thousands of art and scientific prints, illustrating medicinal plants, spectacular garden flowers, exotic tropical blooms, trees and ferns. Includes many different printmaking techniques, from woodcuts to stipple engravings to color-printed lithographs.

Primary Sources Hundreds of photographs, prints, drawings, and other images documenting the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congresses (IWSA) at Copenhagen, 1906; Amsterdam, 1908; Budapest, 1913; and other conferences. Featured are Rosika Schwimmer, Jane Addams, Anita Augspurg, Carrie Chapman Catt, Vilma Glucklich, Lida Gustava Heymann, and other notable women.

Over 1,000 American and European posters printed from 1893 through the first years of the 20th-century. The collection represents the inception and heyday of magazine, book, and newspaper posters of the last decade of the 19th-century, and well into the 20th-century.

This collection contains actual plots, focus charts, cue sheets and more from productions digitized from the collections of the New York Public Library. This is a new project that will expand to include further productions, to develop new research tools, and to gradually build the Database into the premiere online resource for the study of lighting design.

Hundreds of images from the thirteenth through the early twentieth century, in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics, as represented by manuscript illuminations, engravings, lithographs, and photographs.

Primary Sources Tens of thousands of photographs of actors and actresses, in character and as themselves, from the 19th century to recent years.

Portraits of American subjects or by American artists, generally limited to one-of-a-kind likenesses such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, miniatures, and silhouettes. Includes a special browsing collection of Hispanic portraits supported by Federal funds for Latino programming.

Primary Sources Search for images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

Architecture, cartoons and comics, folk art, movies and television, music, photographs & prints, poetry & literature and theatre & dance.

Digitized collections of Ancient and European art.

Official database for Broadway theatre provided by The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. A comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. Also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway.

Huge, fully-searchable database of film information, including credits, plot summaries, character names, movie ratings, year of release, running times, soundtracks, country of production, genres, production companies, distributors, special effects companies, reference literature, filming locations and movie trivia.

World Maps, Timelines, Essays, Works of Art. Browse works of art by subject, artist or work. Browse timeline periods from 20,000 BC – present. Browse Essays by subject. Select maps by time period and world region. Keyword search option that brings up hits in all categories.

Search the collections by artist, culture, technique, materials, geographic origin, time period, installation, gallery or museum department. Browse highlights and see the artwork of the day.

Digital archive of texts, images, video, and audio files relating to musical theater. This is a new project it will be expanded in the future.

Primary Sources digital images and descriptive information about 22,000 photographs of New York City and its environs taken by the Byron Company between 1890 and 1942. Browse through selected topic or search the collection by word.

Online source of images found in books that pertain to US History. Each image has the original documentation attached.

Objects and images from one of the premier art collections