DACC Library: Architecture: Find Images

Images

Most Library Databases contain Images, however, JSTOR is the most useful for finding images in the Arts and Humanities, including architecture.

JSTOR
Content: Provides access to peer-reviewed scholarly journals, literary journals, academic monographs, research reports, millions of primary sources, and art images, supporting a wide range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Purpose: Enhances research and teaching by offering comprehensive, high-quality academic resources and primary sources, along with advanced search and browsing capabilities for in-depth exploration.

Additionally, the websites below provide images and information on historic buildings in the US and the world.

Cities and Buildings Database
Maintained be the University of Washington Libraries. Includes contributions from a wide range of scholars, and contains images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages, to the Parc de la Villette, and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project. These have all been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. They are freely available to anyone with access to the Web for use in the classroom, student study, or for individual research purposes. Searchable by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, and Historic American Landscapes Survey
From the U.S. Library of Congress. Measured drawings, photographs, and written histories for thousands of historic structures and sites.