Musical Image Collections
See Also: Music Resources
Music and Dance in Art
A large selection of fine art print and poster images by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alfred Gockel, Marc Chagall, and Andy Warhol, plus works by emerging and contemporary artists.
Joseph Muller Collection of Music and Other Portraits
From the NYPL Digital Gallery, the collection dates from 16th to the early 20th-centuries and includes over 4,700 portraits of mostly composers, musicians, and music patrons, but includes other artists, nobility, and philosophers as well.
Performing Arts Reading Room
Collections from the Music Division at the Library of Congress, around 12 million items spanning over 800 years of Western music history. Includes an illustrated guide to the music and book collections, manuscripts, artifacts, collections of musical instruments, and more.
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
The William P. Gottlieb Collection, contains over 1600 photographs of jazz artists in New York City and Washington, D.C. from 1938 to 1948.
Music, Drama & Literature
Browse a collection of images in the WorldImages database, California State University IMAGE Project.
Sheet Music
NYPL: American Popular Song Sheet Covers
An online collection of around 3,239 images of popular American sheet music covers from 1890-1922.
LOC: Historic American Sheet Music (1850-1920)
An online collection of over 3,000 images of sheet music from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Civil War Sheet Music Collection
A Library of Congress online collection of more than 2,500 pieces of music about the war, notable cover art includes battlefield scenes, portraits of generals, the popular image of Jefferson Davis escaping in petticoats, and other related images.
Spellman Collection of Victorian Music Sheet Covers
An online collection of material mostly published in the British Isles from 1840-1900 including accomplished music illustrators John Brandard, and Alfred Concanen, a University of Reading collection presented online by VADS.
Templeton Digital Sheet Music Collection
Sheet music collection with images from the late 19th century to the early 20th century in genres including ragtime, blues, and show tunes, a Mississippi State University Libraries presentation.
University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection
View selections online from the University of Colorado at Boulder Music Library collection of around 150,000 items.
Inventions of Note
Explores American reactions to technology through popular song sheet cover art, a collection in the Lewis Music Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
African Americana Sheet Music
Collection of sheet music dating from the 18th century to the present day, categories include World Wars I and II, 19th century color lithographs, early American imprints, popular music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and more, a Brown University Library presentation.
California Sheet Music Project
Browse sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, University of California, Berkeley.
Sheet Music from Canada's Past
Features selections from the historical collection of Library and Archives Canada, themes include winter, dancing, flowers, boating, and more.
Illustrated Covers from the Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection
Browse Brooklyn themed sheet music covers dating from 1869 to 1987, a Brooklyn Public Library collection.
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Collection of American popular music from 1780 to 1980, in the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University.
Cover Art in the Kirk Collection
Examples of popular music from 1866-1922, an Indiana State University Library presentation.
