Research Guides: English 384: American Studies: Collections & Background Information

Library of Congress Collections

Prints and Photographs
Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images.
American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Documenting America
Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives

Oxford Art Online
Grove Art Online covers both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewelry, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more). Also includes 30,000+ links to color images from and other art sites, and 100,000+ images from the Bridgeman Art Library, as well as biographies of artists of all types (architects, patrons, collectors, dealers theorists, writers, and scholars).