Finding Audio, Images, and Video - ENG 301 - Troost - Fall 2023 - Clark Family Library at Washington & Jefferson College

Audio Resources

Looking for more help finding audio resources? Consider making an appointment with Beth Miller, the liaison librarian for Music.

Find Music - Music Research Guide
This page on the Music research guide has more audio resources.
Smithsonian Open Access
Smithsonian Open Access is a digital collection of items from across the Smithsonian's institutions that includes art, documents, objects, and more.
Smithsonian Folkways Records
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. It was founded to "[...]document "people's music," spoken word, instruction, and sounds from around the world" ("Mission and History").
Library of Congress. National Jukebox.
The Library of Congress offers historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. Some of these were 78 rpm disc recordings from the early 20th century that have been digitized.

Visual Resources

This curated list of resources to find images and other visual sources was curated by Cece and the College Archivist, Sinéad Bligh. Many of these resources will also include videos as well as images.

Looking for more help finding video resources? Consider making an appointment with Sam Martin, the liaison librarian for Communication Arts.

Film
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Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Covers fine and commercial art, sculpture, and additional emphasis on architecture. Offers over 63,000 art images, 600 full-text journals dating back to 1990 and more than 220 full-text books.

Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art is part of the Smithsonian Institute and is, according to their about statement on their homepage, "the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America."

Bloomberg Businessweek Archive This link opens in a new window
Full-text access beginning with the magazine’s first issue in 1929 through 2010.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Getty Research Portal
A collection of older works: over 30,000 art history publications, rare books, and related literature, from many publishers.
Google Arts and Culture
Google Arts and Culture is a portal to access digitized content from several thousand cultural heritage institutions from around the world.
Europeana
Europeana is a cultural heritage repository funded by the European Union. Many of the works available in the repository are open access or published with Creative Commons licenses, but double check a resource or dataset's copyright status before using it.

Flipster This link opens in a new window
Full-text digital access to current issues and some backfile of 23 popular magazines.
Forbes Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Forbes Magazine Archive, covering 1917-2000

Forbes Magazine Archive is the world’s only complete digital version of the Forbes backfile. With coverage starting at the magazine’s first issue in 1917, the archive offers 70 years’ worth of content not available on any other EBSCO full-text product.

Forbes has delivered key insight on the business and financial world for nearly a century. With EBSCO’s Forbes Magazine Archive, researchers have unrivaled electronic access to the world’s best business news. This fully searchable full-text archive provides analysis on business leaders, politics, entertainment, technology, communication, culture, and style.
Fortune Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Fortune Magazine Archive, covering 1930-2000

Fortune Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the long-running business magazine dating from its very first issue in February, 1930 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

Published monthly by Time Inc., the magazine sought to provide news and analysis of both American and, later, international business, economics, technology, and industry. Each issue featured vivid color illustrations and photographs, as well as high-quality feature articles, published at a time when most business magazines were merely black and white compendiums of statistics and figures.

Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified, ensuring researchers and readers can quickly and accurately locate the information they seek. Fortune Magazine Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-Century current events, politics and culture, as well as those interested in the history of business, advertising, and popular culture.

Library of Congress Arts & Culture Collections
View collections on Architecture & Design, Folk Art, Music, Movies & Television, and more.

Life Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Life Magazine Archive, covering 1936-2000

Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

Smithsonian Open Access
Smithsonian Open Access is a digital collection of items from across the Smithsonian's institutions that includes art, documents, objects, and more.

Time Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Time Magazine Archive, covering 1923-2000
Vanity Fair Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Vanity Fair magazine coverage from 1913 to 1936 and 1983 to 2015.