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Urban Studies: Images, Plans, & Drawings
Open access images, plans, & drawings
- Wikimedia Commons
Try searching "floor plans" or "architectural drawings." Images will have a license at the bottoms such as Public Domain or CC0 that dictate how you can use them. - Flickr: The Commons
Try searching for specific design or architectural features. The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives. - Internet Archive
Try searching for specific features, "design plans" or "floor plans." Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. - Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)Part of the American Memory Project, this collection contains more than 350,000 measured drawings, photographs, and written histories in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories.
Open access vectors & clip art
- Open Clip Art LibraryPublic domain contemporary graphics contributed by users.
- Open Icon LibraryOpen collection of icons.
- Wikimedia Commons - Crystal Clear IconsIcon collection in the Wikimedia Commons.
- Wikimedia Commons - Tango IconsIcon collection in the Wikimedia Commons.
Image databases
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowSearch over one million digital images in the fields of the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
As of August 1st, 2024, ARTstor is available exclusively at JSTOR. - Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIndex to publications in architecture, urban design, urban planning, interior design, and historic preservation from 1741 to present.
- Design & Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new windowArticles, news, and reviews covering design and applied arts, 1973-present.
- UW Special Collections - Architectural DrawingsThis database searches architectural drawings held by Special Collections focusing on the architecture and architectural firms of the Pacific Northwest.
Maps
- Digital Sandborn Fire Insurance MapsIncludes more than 660,000 Sanborn maps charting the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Requires Account with Seattle Public Library
- Fire Insurance Maps OnlineFiMo contains fire insurance and real estate maps from the States of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington. Limited to UW affiliates.
- Newberry Library Online Digital ResourcesChicago Non-Profit Library's Map Resources , Digital Map Collection, broken-up by topic with essays in cartographic movement and the ideas and information they present
- Rumsey Map CollectionLarge Digital Map Landscape Archive with over 100K items
- National Archives Resource PageOf note is the Cartographic and Architectural Records Collection
- University of Washington - Maps Collection & Cartographic Information ServicesCollection includes over 270,000 map sheets, 86,000 aerial photographs, and 2,000 atlases. Located in Suzzallo library