Style Guide: Modernism and the International Style

The Met collection includes more than 490,000 objects spanning over 5,000 years of art from around the world. You can limit your search results to Artworks With Images. Check Open Access to limit search results to images free of copyright restrictions.

Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian museum devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design, has more than 215,000 objects spanning over 3,000 years of design around the world. You can limit your search to items with images and images with no known copyright restrictions.

More than 16 million photographs, historical prints, posters, cartoons, drawings, fine prints, and architectural and engineering designs. 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.

Over 900,000 items, from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more. Check Show Only Public Domain to limit search results to images free of copyright restrictions.

More than 3 million items from the collections of the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. Check Open Access Media to limit search results to images free of copyright restrictions.

Descriptions of government buildings built between 1790 and 1979, organized by architectural style. Additional photographs of most buildings are available through the Historic Building Photographs link below.

Copyright-free images of government buildings across the United States, organized by location

An openly-licensed library of images of significant 20th-century housing projects from 50 countries around the world, free of copyright restrictions