LibGuides: Drama & Theater: Images

Image Resources -- Multiple Subjects

Image Quest This link opens in a new window
Over 2 million images, all rights cleared for use in class and assignments.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a non-profit online digital image library designed to serve educational and scholarly communities with more than one million images on subjects in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.

Creative Commons Search
Allows users to search for images on various sites while limiting results to items that have a Creative Commons copyright license.
Getty Open Content Gateway
Digitized content from the Getty Museum.
Graphics Fairy
Collected images for download from materials that are no longer in copyright. These are all historic images.
Library of Congress: Photos, Prints, Drawings
A set of the LOC collection that has been digitized.
New York Public Library Digital Image Collection
Images digitized from NY Public Library's extensive collection. To limit your search to copyright free images, choose the limiter, "Show Only Public Domain."
Smithsonian Image Gallery
Digitized images from the Smithsonian Museums’ collections.
Unsplash
Photos that have been donated for use by their creators.

The Black Crook Collection from The Harry Ransom Center
Digitized images of photographs and ephemera relating to the 1866 production of Black Crook, one of the first successful musicals in the U.S.
Federal Theatre Project Production Stills Collection
From the New York Public Library, this online collection of digital images documents WPA theater productions from the 1930's.
Library of Congress Performing Arts Poster Collection
The Library of Congress has digitized over 2,000 historical posters for performing arts events, including theater productions, magic shows, minstrel and burlesque shows.
Performing Arts Glass Plate Negatives from The Harry Ransom Center
Including digitized images of theater production from 1890-1920.
LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection
Mainly digitized images of important Shakespearean texts.
Vandamm Theatrical Photo Collection
Another digital image collection from NY Public Library, this one documents the theater world in NY York from between the years of 1900-1957.