Databases with Material Culture Artifacts
- Artstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor is a collection of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and social sciences for research and teaching purposes.
Costume and dress
- Bloomsbury Design Library This link opens in a new window
Coverage of global design and crafts from 1500 BCE to the present day with cross-searchable access to encyclopedias, reference works, e-books, images, and more.
- Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtSearch or browse the Collections Database for access to thousands of fashion and costume images.
- Fashion: The Victoria and Albert MuseumBrowse and search the fashion and costume collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume DesignMade available via the University of Illinois, The Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is a valuable source of documentation on the history of theatre. It is a rare collection of original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States.
