Art and Architecture 

Primary Sources are original materials that have not been edited, evaluated, or altered by a second party.

Examples include letters, diaries, interviews, speeches, audio and video recordings, statistics, legal or organizational records, and arifacts (including works of art).

• Architecture and Design Collection (University Art Museum)
  • Repository of architectural records
• Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection
  • Archival images in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA)
• UCSB Department of Special Collections

• American Memory Project
  • Free resource- search/browse the collections from the Library of Congress
• Archives of American Art oral history interviews
• Beazley Archive
  • Collection of casts and photographs of Classical Greek and Roman Art from the University of Oxford
• Bücher zur Architektur und Gartenkunst
  • Free resource- from the University of Heidelberg
  • Over 80 rare books, among them, Palladio, Vitruvius, Vignola, Serlio, Blondel, and Fischer von Erlach-- from the 15th to the 19th century covering architecture and landscape architecture
• Calisphere
  • More than 150,000 items- including photographs, documents from libraries and museums in the UC and other institutions in California
• Chicago Architects Oral History Project
  • Free resource from the Art Institute of Chicago Ryerson & Burnham Archives
• Digital Archive of Architecture
  • Photographs and illustrations of European and American architecture from Professor Jerry Howe of Boston College
• European Archive
  • Digital library of cultural artifacts
• OAIster
  • Free resource. Included are archival resources, digitized books and articles, born digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and data sets
• Online Archive of California
  • Free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections by more than 150 institutions
  • Includes libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California
  • Maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses
• Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  • Search the archival, manuscript, and photographic collections
  • Provides access to the Smithsonian American Art Museum inventories and pre-1877 art exhibition catalogues index
• Western History Photography Collection
  • Contains images and catalog records of Native Americans, pioneers, early railroads, mining, Denver and the surrounding areas