Ad*Access — image database of thousands of U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories – Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda – dated between 1911 and 1955
Advertising Archives — over 1 million images in advertising. Search or browse by decade (pre-1900 to present) or category (TV adverts, celebrities, posters and more)
American Memory — a digital library of primary source materials from the history and culture of the United States: documents, photos, sound files and film footage. By the Library of Congress
Amon Carter Museum of American Art — thousands of images from the Amon Carter’s Artist Archives tell the social, historical, and economic stories of twentieth-century America
The Commons — pilot project in partnership with the Library of Congress. Increasing access to publicly held photography collections
deviantART — the world’s largest online art community, featuring hundreds of millions of pieces of art from tens of millions of artists and art appreciators
Life Picture Collection — visual chronicle of the 20th century spanning 1936 to 2000, produced and compiled by LIFE magazine. Not all collections are available free of charge
NYPL Digital Collections — explore hundreds of thousands of items digitized from the New York Public Library’s collections: prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video and more
Photobucket — video and image sharing service. Search by keyword or browse by category
Sharedshelf Commons — a free, open-access library of images. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images. By the makers of ARTStor (UTD-only database)
Symbols.com — online encyclopedia that contains everything about symbols, signs, flags and glyphs arranged by categories such as culture, country, religion, and more
Trove — hundreds of thousands of online sources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more. By the National Library of Australia