Digital Collections - ART 333 - Art, Design and Popular Culture - LibGuides at Central Washington University

Databases

Artstor
Artstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Registered users can save and organize Artstor images into groups, export image groups as a PowerPoint 2007 file for classroom presentations or share with other users at CWU through a stable URL link. For detailed instructions for registering, see Artstor's online help.

Note: Artstor is moving to JSTOR. The Artstor website will be retired next year on Aug. 1, 2024, but you can get started with using Artstor resources on JSTOR now. Link to the Artstor experience on JSTOR. Your existing Artstor user account will work on JSTOR.
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part 1 & 2
Archives of Sexuality & Gender program modules one and two includes historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals, publications by and for lesbians and gays, extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis, personal correspondence and interviews with LGBTQ individuals, international gay/lesbian newspapers. Documents span from 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950-1990.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Gale Ebooks is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Formerly known as GVRL - Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
This collection includes photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Some 600,000+ digital images from within the NYPL's collections. Browse by subjects alphabetically listed or by suggested disciplines. Look at this website if you need images of postcards, posters, photographs, etc. of technological changes, specific people and historic events throughout America...not just New York.
University of Washington Digital Collections
Materials from the University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Faculty and Departments, and organizations that have participated in partner projects with the UW. Collections are primarily pictorial, although some have accompanying essays and text. Other media are presented, such as newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters and maps. The emphasis of these collections is on rare and unique materials and it is a great resource for Pacific Northwest history topics.

CWU Student Newspapers
Living History Project / Oral histories
This collection contains transcripts of interviews conducted with former faculty, staff, and alumni of Central Washington University.
Central Washington University Archives and Special Collections
The Archives at Central Washington University was established as the repository for official and unofficial records that document the history of the university. It therefore serves as a regional repository to house, preserve, and promote the unique cultural history of central Washington.