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Gender and Sexuality in U.S. History

Image Libraries

Artstor
A digital image library of over 2 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Registering for a personal account will allow you to download images, save images into groups, share your groups with other Artstor users, view groups created by other users (such as collections set up by course instructors), add notes to individual images, set personal display options, and export citations. Rutgers-restricted Access
AMICA Library
Over 100,000 digital images of works of art held in museums. Rutgers-restricted Access
Flickr Commons
A large collection of historical photographs contributed by over 100 cultural institutions in 24 countries around the world. Images have no known copyright restrictions.
IADDB: International Advertising & Design Database
Includes posters, packaging designs, cover designs and television commercials, as well as promotional songs and sound bites.
Ad*Access
Search or browse over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covers five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. A project of the Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
Over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the U.S. From collections in the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University.
AdViews
Thousands of television commercials from the 1950s to the 1980s.
The Advertising Archives
Database of over 100,000 searchable images. You can also browse by category
Women's History Resources in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Suggested searched by topic areas.

You can also use Google Image Search to look for images of particular people or subjects.

Sound Collections

Smithsonian Global Sound. Over 2900 online audio recordings (over 42,000 tracks) of American folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word, and world music. Rutgers-restricted Access

DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music. CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. Over 1,200 complete CDs (7,500 compositions). Rutgers-restricted Access