LA 341: Planning Public Grounds: Visual & Historical Sources

Search or browse over 80,000 images from the British Architectural Library's collections. Provided by the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Provides search and access to a wide variety of rights-managed (RM) and royalty-free (RF) images, as well as videos and music. In addition to a keyword search, this free database offers several limits to narrow your search, including RM versus RF, specific collection, image orientation, and style

Includes more than 20,000 selections from AIGA’s annual juried design competitions dating from 1924 through the present. In addition, this resource features special collections of major American design firms and practitioners whose design accomplishments might otherwise not be preserved online or made available to the public.

The Digital Library of South Dakota (DLSD) is a collaboration of the libraries of the six Board of Regents colleges and universities, as well as partners in the state of South Dakota, to digitize and provide access to photos and primary documents relevant to the history of South Dakota.

Access nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884.

Collection of historical maps of South Dakota communities created by Sanborn Map Company from 1867 to 1970. Large scale plans of a city or town, drawn to a scale of 50 feet to an inch, created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. Multiple editions allow community development to be tracked over time.

Access the Scholars' Lab's GIS data, including datasets in many standard formats. Hosted by the University of Virginia.