Arts

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution - World's largest primary source collection of the visual arts in America, with 14 million items.
http://artarchives.si.edu/

Contemporary Fashion Archive - An international project in which five European fashion institutions join forces to establish an information network in fashion design, composed of a digital archive and local documentation centres at the different institutions.
http://www.contemporaryfashion.net

Shubert Archive - Documents the business and artistic records of the theater-owning Shubert Brothers and the Shubert Organization, held by the Shubert Foundation at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City.
http://www.shubertarchive.org/

Chicago Jazz Archive - Collection of sheet music, recordings, photographs and stock arrangements, focusing on "Chicago style" jazz. Part of the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/

American Comedy Archives - Archives held at Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, containing primary source material on the history, craft, and art of comedy. Features oral history interviews with comedy writers, producers, and performers.
http://www.emerson.edu/comedy/

The British Cartoon Archive - Research centre and picture library located in the Templeman Library at the University of Kent: galleries, location information, services offered, contact details, scale of charges and publications.
http://library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons/

William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz - Tulane University collection including oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, sheet music and orchestrations, and manuscripts related to New Orleans jazz.
http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/JazzHome.html

Mukul Dey Archives - A private archive at Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, of the work, collection and papers of pioneer Indian graphic artist Mukul Dey. Biography, gallery, details of access.
http://www.chitralekha.org

Archives of African American Music and Culture - Includes oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and educational broadcast programs, at Indiana University in Bloomington.
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/

Archive of Turkish Oral Literature - Full-text digital archive containing materials on Turkish folklore, history, literature, ethnography, from the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.
http://aton.ttu.edu

The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research - Contains manuscripts, films, photographs and graphics relating to the entertainment industry, held in Madison.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/

Archive of Contemporary Music - America's largest collection of poular recordings with over 1.6 million discs. A research facility providing information on all aspects of popular music.
http://www.arcmusic.org