Works awarded the annual Caldecott Medal Winner and Honor Books are excellent sources for illustrations. Mullins Library houses most of these titles. To retrieve one or more of these titles you may search OneSearch by author or title for a specific book or by the subject Caldecott Medal.
Images are core resources in the design disciplines, including the history of the design disciplines. The links on this page can direct you to resources to which the Libraries subscribe and to other free resources that are valuable. The Libraries' collection of books and journals also offer numerous images for the researcher, although not all are indexed and listed. Contact me for additional assistance.
The illustrations of relatively few books are indexed, making it difficult to track down a specific illustration—or type of illustration—within a book. The following subject searches in the online catalog retrieve sources within the Libraries' collections that index images (note one heading is singular and the other is plural):
The Libraries participate in Artstor, which provides you with a significant database of approximately 2.5 million images.
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