This audio archive has 57,000 tracks of songs by and about, miners, immigrants, slaves, American Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. The Civil Rights movement, political campaigns, anti-war protests, and other events are included. Also here is a vast collection of African-American Songs from blues, jazz, gospel, ragtime, and other traditions.
Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Global Sound is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
This is a searchable audio library of more than 36,000 discs with 514,000 tracks. Classical music is the largest part, but Naxos also has music from shows, films, and some examples of world music.
Provides indexing and abstracts for all areas of fine art, architectural history, fashion, textiles and related fields in art-related periodicals for the years 1929 to 1984. It also indexes reproductions of art works.
The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial. Over 50,000 images are available for download, and they continue to add more images for free access as more works are photographed and as works of art enter the public domain.
The Smithsonian provides access to more than 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
Streaming video collection including films from BroadwayHD, Filmakers Library, Milestone Films, and Sony Pictures Classics. Interactive transcripts and closed captions are available. Note: Firefox is recommended for viewing.
FILM PLATFORM is designed to bring leading documentary films to the academic world. Their catalogue gathers together the finest contemporary documentaries fresh off the international festival circuit. Their films are curated by an academic advisory board to ensure that the highest educational standards are upheld. Available to stream online.
The EFG Portal gives you quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.