Caribbean Art and Visual Culture
Resources for Caribbean Art and Visual Culture.
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Art Source with Art Index RetrospectiveA comprehensive resource for art information featuring full text of over 750 periodicals and indexing back to 1929.
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U-M Library Articles SearchUse Articles Search to locate scholarly and popular articles, as well as reference works and materials from open access archives.
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ARTstorNow part of JStor, provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
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Artstor Across DisciplinesNow part of JStor, a Research Guide developed by Artstor with helpful suggestions for finding and using images across disciplines.
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Fine Arts LibraryProvided is basic information about the library such as current hours, staffing, maps, and accessibility.
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International Bibliography of ArtIndex to scholarly literature on Western art, incorporating journal articles, monographs, essay collections, and conference proceedings.
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U-M Library Catalog SearchCatalog Search results will include everything in our physical collection (books, audio, video, maps, musical scores, archival materials, and more), as well as materials available online such as electronic books, streaming audio and video, and online journals.
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U-M Library SearchUse Library Search to see results from the catalog, articles, databases, online journals and library website pages.
Caribbean Art Image Resources
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Caribbean Art and Visual Culture: As Far as the Eye/ I Can SeeAs far as the eye/I can see is a project that shares artist's visions, voices and vantage points, a space where critics offer perspectives on current exhibits and critical debates in contemporary visual art and culture.
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Cuban Photograph Collections (University of Miami: Cuban Heritage Collection)The Cuban Photograph Collections include over 5,000 photographs which span a wide range of historical topics related to Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora.
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Cuban Postcard Collection (University of Miami: Cuban Heritage Collection)The Cuban Postcard Collection is a continuously growing collection of postcards of Cuba and the Cuban experience outside of Cuba produced from the turn of the 20th century to the present.
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Deena Stryker Photographs, Cuba 1963-1964 and undated (Duke University)Approximately 1,850 photographs shot in Cuba between 1963 and 1964 and processed by Alberto Korda on the island.
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Leonard Carpenter Panama Canal CollectionPrimarily consists of photographs of Panama and the Panama Canal Zone during construction, beginning in 1914
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Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs (NYPL)Hundreds of photographs and prints, in albums and rare published volumes, present the territories and countries associated with Portugal and Spain in the New World, from Mexico to Argentina, and parts of the Caribbean.
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Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection (University of Miami: Cuban Heritage Collection)The Manuel R. Bustamente Photograph Collection consists primarily of over 600 black and white photographs of Cuba from the early 1900s to the 1930s.
General Image Resources
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AlukaIncludes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.
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AP ImagesOnline access to over 500,000 photos with detailed captions from the AP news wire. Includes all photos from US and abroad added in the previous 365 days (800 per day) plus many selected older photos from 1844 to the present. Updated continuously.
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ARTStorARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.
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CAMIOOCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
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George Eastman House Photography Collections OnlineA steadily growing digital image sampler from the George Eastman House holdings.
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Google Art ProjectAn online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums - more than 32,000 artworks from 46 collections - including the Tate Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Uffizi, Florence.
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LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) CollectionBrowsable and searchable database of LACMA's high resolution images.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online CatalogThe Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.
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U-M Library Digital CollectionsAccess to over 250 text, image, and finding aid collections that provide access to over a million digital objects.
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U-M Library Image CollectionsCollections of digitized images of artworks, cultural and historical artifacts, etc., from museums and other sources maintained by the U-M Library.
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NYPL Digital GalleryProvides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
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Smithsonian Institution CollectionSearch over six million records with 536,000 images, video and sound files and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives, and libraries.
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Victoria & Albert ImagesV&A Images is a high quality, versatile picture agency. The ever-expanding image collection includes almost everything imaginable in the fine and decorative arts.
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How to Cite ImagesHelpful information from ARTStor on how to cite images.
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Fine Arts Library -- Basic Information (including hours and accessibility)

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260 Tappan Hall
855 S. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1357
855 S. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1357
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Last Updated: Oct 27, 2025 2:22 PM
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