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- Abiti Antichi
— In Italian. Lots of beautiful pictures of someone's collection of extant clothing from the 18th century through the 1930s. Easy to navigate, even if you can't read Italian. There is one page in English that explains the site. - Art History Resources on the Web — This site, maintained by an art history professor, has links to art websites categorized by date and geographic location.
- Art History Resources on the Web: Middle Ages
- Art History Resources on the Web: Renaissance Art in Italy
- Art History Resources on the Web: Renaissance Art outside Italy
- Art Resource — Fine art stock photo archive.
- Artcyclopedia — Art can be searched by medium, location (i.e. museum), title, subject, and of course artist.
- Bavarian National Museum
- Becker Collection, The — Collection of drawings from the American Civil War.
- Bildindex zur Kunst und Architektur — In German, but has thousands of images of paintings, sculpture, etc.
Bildindex Tutorial — A tutorial on how to search the Bildindex, by Marion McNealy. Especially helpful if you don't speak German (like me!). - Blaffer Collection — A collection of Renaissance and Baroque art, located in Texas.
- Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c. 1500 — Fabulous resource with images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.
- British Museum
- Centre National du Costume de scene (France)
- CGFA — Fine art images by artist.
- Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers — From the Library of Congress, an online collection of newspapers from 1880-1922.
- Corinium Museum — "Home to one of the largest collections of Romano-British antiquities in the country. Corinium, Roman Cirencester, was the second largest town in Roman Britain."
- Cornell Costume Collection - Highlights — Highlights of several of Cornell Universities clothing & textile collections.
- Costume Institute - Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Danish Royal Library: Medieval Manuscripts — Manuscripts from the 9th thru 15th century.
- De Young Museum — American, Pacific Island and African art.
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University — "Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals." FABULOUS!!
- Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection — Located at North Dakota State University.
- FIDM Museum & Gallery — Fashion & theater/film costume related exhibitions.
- FIDM Museum Blog — Blog about items in the FIDM Museum
- Gallica - Bibliotheque nationale de France — The French national library, has lots of medieval manuscripts.
- Images of Fashion at the Court of Louis XIV — Collection of 16th-18th century clothing & fashion plates.
- Lace Museum, The
- Legion of Honor — European paintings and decorative arts, ancient art, etc.
- Les archives de L'Officiel de la Mode — (France) A collection of the covers of L'Officiel de la Mode magazine, from 1920 through current time. The website & magazine are mostly in French, but the page transcriptions are in English, French and Spanish. Lots of great period images.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) — Lots of paintings & clothing online. Check out the online collection Costumes & Textiles.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
— The Met has a fabulous collection of clothing, The Costume Institute, as well as lots of beautiful paintings. Lots of images online — check out the Timeline of Art or just Search the Collection. - Museo del Traje (Costume Museum) — Madrid, Spain.
- Museum of Costume at Bath — If I ever get to England, this and the V&A are my two "must sees." Not a lot of images on the website, but definitely worth checking out.
- Museum of the City of New York — Images of New York and a Costume & Textile collection.
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich — Online collection of maritime related paintings.
- New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library: Picture Collection Online — Seems to be a separate database from the one listed above. Has sections on gloves, hairdressing, clothing, shoes, textiles, etc.
- New York Public Library: Digital Gallery — Lots of costume related images.
- Northampton Museum Boot and Shoe Collection
- Platt Hall Gallery of Costume — In Manchester, UK.
- Réunion des Musées Nationaux — (France) Centralized search for French museums, with over 400,00 images of art from the Louvre, Orsay, Georges Pompidou, etc. Portraits, manuscripts and more.
- The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art — From the National Gallery of Australia
- Tidens Tøj — Danish National Museum's clothing collection, sorted by time period. Lots of gorgeous stuff. Too bad I don't read Danish!
- Turning the Pages — Virtual books from the British Library.
- Victoria & Albert Museum — V&A - Search the Collections. Lots of spectacular stuff at this museum. Another "some day" place to visit!
- Women Working: 1800-1930 — From Harvard University Library, a digital collection of manuscripts, trade magazines, catalogues, etc, portraying working women.
