Books that are composed primarily of illustrations are identified by one or more subject headings. The sub-heading Pictorial Works is used for these titles.

For example, the keyword search "afro-americans and pictorial works" will retrieve the following book (among others).

Books which are not primarily pictorial can also provide useful illustrations. Start with a subject or keyword search describing what you want. In the Description section (Descript) of an online catalog entry you will find the following terms:

ill. or illus.    =   Books which contain a few or more pictures.
col ill or ill (some col.)    =  Color pictures.
ports   =  Pictures of people.

A Title Search under "Dover Pictorial Archive Series" will collect the numerous titles owned by the Western Libraries.  All of these titles have copyright free illustrations.  Some examples are:
    The American West in the Thirties:  122 Photographs by Arthur Rothstein  F 595 .R83  (Haggard 3)
    Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts     NE 962 .A5 C8 1971  (Wilson 6th Floor West)
    An Old-fashioned Christmas in Illustration and Decoration   GT 4985 .H594  (Haggard 3)
    Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazaar 1867-1898   GT 595 .B56 1974
    Women:  A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth Century Sources     N 7632 .W599  (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)

• Bibliography of the History of Art
  • Dates covered: 1973-current
  The Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present, indexing and abstracting art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Updated quarterly.   In the Physical Details field of a Bibliography of the History of Art record, illustration notes are listed.  For example:

  Author: Haveman, Mariette, ed., contrib
  Title:     Monet
  Physical Details:  79 ill. (64 col.)                     Indicates 79 illustrations with 64 color illustrations
  In:  Kunstschirift 2001, v. 45, no. 5, Sept-Oct, p. 2-46. ISSN 0166-7297

• Art Index
  • Location: N1 .A59 (Wilson 1 East - Periodicals)
  • Dates covered: 1984-current
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  This international index covers contemporary art, art history, architecture, archaeology, computers in art, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, photography, textiles, and related fields. Reproductions of works of art appearing in periodicals are also indexed. The print version of Art Index provides coverage back to 1929. 12 Simultaneous Users.

• American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
  • Dates covered: 1760-1900
  American Broadsides is a searchable full text database of 30,000 posters, proclamations, menus, advertisements, invitations, fliers, stock certificates, clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, and theater and music programs that document political and cultural events, both private and civic from 1760-1900. Some of the documents are available in color. This database was created from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.

• The Clip art book : a compilation of more than 5,000 illustrations and designs
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference NC1002.C55 C55 1994
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• Design on file
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference NK1570 .D46 1984
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  This book contains reproducible, black and white deisgns arranged by: Geometry, Patterns, Porjections, Diagrams, Scales, Maps, Planning, Lettering, and Human Faces.

• The encyclopedia Americana
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AE5 .E333 1999
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  Entries are illustrated with color pictures and photos, drawings, diagrams, graphs, maps, and charts.

• The Macmillan visual dictionary
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PE1629 .C64 1992
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• The Stoddart English/French visual dictionary : look up the word from the picture, find the picture from the word / Corbeil, Jean Claude.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PC2640 .C67 1987
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• What's what, a visual glossary of the physical world / Bragonier, Reginald.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AG250 .B7 1990
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  Pitures of common objects and their parts, each identified indiviually by name, are classes under such general categoreis as: living things, transportation, personal items . . .

• Portrait index of North American Indians in published collections / Frazier, Patrick.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E89 .F725 1996
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• Current biography yearbook
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference CT100 .C8
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  This is a good source for black and white photographs of "living leaders from all fields of human accomplishment the world over."

• Encyclopedia of world biography
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference CT103 .E56 1997
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• Animal anatomy on file
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QL812.5 .A55 1990
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• Index to illustrations of animals and plants / Clewis, Beth.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QH46.5 .C54 1991
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• Index to illustrations of living things outside North America : where to find pictures of flora and fauna / Munz, Lucile Thompson.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QL46 .M85
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• Index to illustrations of the natural world : where to find pictures of the living things of North America / Thompson, John W., 1891-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QL46 .T4
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• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online digital media library (Copyright Free)
  Current , the library system contains the National Image Library, the Service's collection of public domain still photos. Searchable by keyword and browseable list.

• Dictionary of symbolism / Biedermann, Hans, 1930-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AZ108 .B5313 1992
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• Handbook of pictorial symbols : 3,250 examples from international sources / Modley, Rudolf.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AZ108 .M63 1976
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• Illustrated dictionary of symbols in Eastern and Western art / Hall, James, 1917-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference N7560 .H342 1994
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• Symbol sourcebook;;an authoritative guide to international graphic symbols / Dreyfuss, Henry, 1904-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AZ108 .D74
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• Dover Publications
  

  Allover Patterns for Designers and Craftsmen    NK 1530 .H66 1975  (Wilson 6th Floor West)
  American Indian Design & Decoration   E 59 .A7 1971   (Haggard 3, Oversize)
  Art Deco Designs & Motifs    NK 1570.L56 1972  (Wilson 6th Floor West)
  Authentic Indian Designs (Bureau of American Ethnology)   E 98 .A7 A97  (Haggard 3)
  Designs and Patterns from Historic Ornament    NK 1530 .A8 1968  (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)
  The Grammar of Ornament (Victorian)    NK 1510 .J7 1987  (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)
  Japanese Stencil Designs  NK 8650 .T8  (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)
  Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period   NK 1580 .K7 1978   (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)

• Dover Publications
  

  Art Nouveau & Early Art Deco Type & Design from the Roman Scherer Catalogue Z 250.3 .R64  (Wilson 1 West)
  A Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Initials, Monograms, and Other Designs   NK 1530 .G52 (Wilson 6th Floor West)
  Calligraphy    Z 43 .B17  (Wilson 1 West)
  Handbook of Early Advertising Art, Mainly from American Sources   NC 997 .H58 1956  (Wilson 6th Floor West)
  Historic Alphabets & Initials, Woodcut & Ornamental   NK 3630 .H5   (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)
  Monograms and Alphabetic Devices   NK 3640 .C48 1970 (Wilson 6th Floor West)
  New Art Deco Alphabets  NK 3625 .A7 .L63 1975   (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)
  Pictorial Calligraphy and Ornamentation   NK 3630 .G5 1972  (Wilson 6th Floor West, Oversize)
  Victorian Display Alphabets  Z 250 .V53 (Wilson 1 West)

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.

• Art Imagebase
  The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).
  
  

• Photography books index : a subject guide to photo anthologies / Kreisel, Martha, 1948-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference TR199 .M67
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• Print index : a guide to reproductions / Parry, Pamela Jeffcott.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference NE90 .P17 1983
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• Sculpture index / Clapp, Jane.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference NB36 .C55
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  Indexes illustrations of sculpture produced from pre-history to 1970.

• SPIRO, Architecture Slide and Photograph Retrieval Online
  The online catalog & image database of the Architecture Visual Resources Liberary, University of California, Berkeley.

• A visual dictionary of architecture / Ching, Frank, 1943-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference NA31 .C44 1995
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• Web Gallery of Art
  The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15.400 reproductions.

• World architecture index : a guide to illustrations / Teague, Edward H., 1952-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference NA202 .T4 1991
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• Search Engines
  Google and many other search engines like Alta Vista, Lycos, and Yahoo have a image search option.

• Ad*Access
  Ad*Access is a collection of "images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.  Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas:  Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University."

• Ditto.com
  Ditto.com provides a visual mechnism to search the web using pictures instead of text.  Users are directed to the originating web site on which the picturees are located.  Should you wish to use any picture, photo or artwork you see during the search process, you must obtain the appropriate permission from the owner of the material.

• GettyImages
  The leading supplier of stock images for business and consumers has an archive of 70 million still images and illustrations and more than 30,000 hours of stock film footage.  A image search can be limited to those images that are royalty-free.

• Image Finder
  Searchable database for images. Allows searching of the Digital Library SunSITE Image Database, the image database of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Images 1: National Library of Australia, Library of Congress Image Databases, the Library of Virginia, Northern Arizona University, Smithsonian Institution Photographs, and WebSeek: A Content-Based Image and Video Catalog and Search Tool for the Web.

• NYPL Digital Gallery (New York Public Library)
  NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 450,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

• Public Health Image Library (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  Much of the information critical to the communication of public health messages is pictorial rather than text-based. Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.