Using Research Databases to
Find Images

Old Tools/New Uses

OBIS /OhioLINK /WorldCAT

useful subject headings:

Illustrated periodicals
Illustrated books
United States -- History -- Pictorial works
Pictures -- Indexes

useful sub subject headings:

-- pictorial works
-- illustrations

Hint: look at the Description field and the Note field in catalog records
for indications of illustrations (e.g. ill., plates, etc.)

Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with a high percentage of full-text; indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications. It also includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.

HarpWeek
The electronic version of Harper's Weekly, the leading national weekly during the second half of the nineteenth-century. Oberlin College has access to two segments: 1857 - 1865, The Civil War Era, and 1866 - 1871, Reconstruction I. Includes searchable full text and scanned page images.

Reader’s Guide Abstracts & Retrospective
Indexes the most popular general interest periodicals in the U.S. and Canada