Image Collectons
- Design Library Image Collection
Almost 250,000 images covering the history of architecture, garden design, sculpture, painting, drawing and graphic design.
- Digital Public Library of America
All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions. - The Textiles Collection, University for the Creative Arts at Farnham
A teaching collection with over 3,000 artifacts demonstrating a wide range of textile techniques and processes. Samples include Coptic textiles from 800-1000 AD through to British woollen cloths, Kashmir shawls, African strip weaving and Scandinavian furnishing fabrics from 1950 to 1990. - Victoria & Albert Museum: Collections
The V&A is the leading museum of art and design in the West, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity with particular strengths in architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewelry, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. [From the website]
Tiimelines
- Fashion History Timeline
Fashion history featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe dating from ancient to modern times. The Timeline website offers well-researched, accessibly written entries on specific artworks, garments and films for those interested in fashion and dress history.
The Story of Costume by Call Number: Art Library, GT511 .P425 2006ISBN: 9780500513095A broad survey of Western costume from ancient times to 2000 arranged in a timeline. Detailed drawings of men, women, and children span a broad array of groups, from servants and laborers to nobility and royalty, and every aspect of fashion, including shoes, hats, and other accessories, plus jewelry and hairstyles.
- Tiki-Toki: Fashion Timeline
Two centuries (1750s - 1950s) of fashion from Kent State University's Fashion Museum. Changes in fashion are aligned with political and cultural events as well as technological innovations.