This list of online resources is intended as a useful reference for Architecture faculty and students who are undertaking image research. Although it reflects several years' compilation, it [necessarily] remains a work in progress and will be updated periodically as new resources are brought to the Curator's attention. Useful additions are welcomed. Please fill out the Comments and Suggestions Form.
Note: The Department of Art and Archaeology's Visual Resources Collection also has an online resource list.
Princeton University Image Resources
Archivision Digital Research Library: Digital images from Archivision available through Almagest and ARTstor.
Art and Archaeology Visual Resources Collection: Digital images from the Visual Resources Collection in the Department of Art & Archaeology available through Almagest and ARTstor.
ARTstor Digital Library: Digital image database with over 1.2 million images. Keyword searchable, this ever-expanding resource features many architectural collections in addition to canonical images used for teaching in the humanities. Includes hosted Princeton University collections. See the ARTstor blog for details about new Architecture collections. See ARTstor's Subject Guides. If you are new to ARTstor please contact Daniel Claro for a quick demo.
CAMIO:Catalog of Art Museum Images Online from the Research Libraries Group. Princeton only.
Historic Maps Collection from Princeton University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. New: 19th and 20th c. Sanborn Maps of New Jersey.
History of Princeton University's Architecture: Collections from the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery: Provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.
Princeton University Library Digital Collections: Various library collections including the Digital Maps and Geographic Data Collection from the Geosciences and Map Library.
PUL QuickSearch: Allows you to search across multiple image databases simultaneously. Includes the School of Architecture collection in Almagest as well as AccuNet, ArtStor, CAMIO, New York Public Library Digital Gallery, and RLG Cultural Materials.
School of Architecture Digital Collection: Digital images from the Visual Resources Collection available through Almagest, the University image database.
Image Databases
Ad*Access Project : Online image database containing over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Archinform: One of the largest online databases for international architecture. Includes images of over 18,000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners.
Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
Art Images for College Teaching: AICT is a free-use image resource for the educational community.
ArtServe: Database from the Australian National University featuring art & architecture from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan and India
David Rumsey Visual Collections: Over 300,000 images from a wide variety of Museums, Universities and private collections. Includes the Catena Digital Archive of Historic Gardens + Landscapes.
Decorative Arts & Design of the 20th Century: An online database of 20th Century design.
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Online image database from Boston College. Contains 1400 images of American architecture.
Digital Archive of European Architecture
Digital Collections at Columbia: Includes an online collection guide and image database of architectural designs and drawings by Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, architects of the American Arts and Crafts Movement.
Digital Images of Architecture: Compiled by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920: A collection of over 9,000 advertising images from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Great Buildings Collection: A large online database of designers and structures of all kinds. Includes 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, and web links.
Library of Congress American Memory Project: Primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Earthquake Engineering Online Archive: Includes the William Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library, the Karl Steinbrugge Image Collection and the Jan Kozak Collection of Historical Earthquakes from the Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California Berkely.
NYPL Digital Gallery: Access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library. Includes coverage of architecture, cityscapes, infrastructure, monuments, and town life.
SAHARA (formerly Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange): A collection of digitized slides of buildings contributed by (and available to) SAH members for non-profit educational use. Collection includes a world survey set and an American survey set.
SPIRO: Image database of the Architecture Visual Resources Library
University of California, Berkeley. COPYRIGHT INFO
Structurae: An online database offering images and information on works of structural engineering around the world. All periods of history are covered.
University of Washington Libraries Cities and Buildings Database: A collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from multiple periods and locations.
Project Sites
Amiens Cathedral Project: Multimedia guide to the cathedral, Columbia U.
Architecture of the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Couvent Dominicain Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Farnsworth House: Project by the Columbia Architecture School's Building Technologies Group.
Historic Buildings In The World Trade Center Vicinity: Images, history and information about their current status from preserve.org.
PatCenter by Richard Rogers / Ove Arup and Partners: Project by the Columbia Architecture School's Building Technologies Group.
Vézelay: Benedictine abby church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine
Maps
Images of Early Maps on the Web
National Atlas of the United States
National Geophysical Data Center
New Jersey Department of Transportation Maps
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Region / Period Specific
Archined: Contemporary Architecture in the Netherlands.
Art Nouveau World Wide: A web site dedicated to the Art Nouveau period, includes material on Berlage, Galle, Gaudi, Guimard, Hoffman, Mackintosh, and Sauvage.
California Heritage Collection: An online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Chicago Architects Oral History Project: From the Art Institute's Department of Architecture; transcripts from interviews, some images.
Chicago Landmarks: Representative work of well known Chicago Architects.
Chicago Imagebase: An online database containing a wide variety of images and other data.
Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed: Digital image collection from the Getty Research Institute on the theme of ruins.
Mexico: From Empire to Revolution: Digital Image resource from Getty Research Institute; includes cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, albums, postcards and other forms of photography. Images reproduced are from the exhibition Mexico: From Empire to Revolution.
Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky: Digital image collection from the Getty Research Institute. Images reproduced are from the exhibition Monuments of the Future:Designs by El Lissitzky.
Early Photography in Greece and the Mediterranean: Digital image collection from the Getty Research Institute. Over 560 nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of ancient Greek and Roman architecture are presented in this collection.
Nineteenth Century Views of Manhattan: New York Public Library online exhibition.
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture / Architectural History 102: A collection of images scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture at the University of Virginia
Museums and Archives
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Museum of the City of New York
Netherlands Architecture Institute
Portals
