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General Subjects
Clip Art
Picture Collections
- New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
“ The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.”
- Pics4Learning
“ Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.”
- Corbis
Stock photography and pictures; main collection is the Bettman Archive. The complete Corbis collection is claimed to be 70 million images (!). Images can be searched without subscribing; it is not clear if the entire database is available. Searches can be limited to images that are “royalty free;” the remaining images have a “corbis” watermark.
- The Amazing Picture Machine
Produced by the North Central Region Technology in Education Consortium.
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Images of People, Places and Things
Advertising/Advertisements
- Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project presents images and database information for over
7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and
magazines between 1911 and 1955.
- Leurzer Archive
A database of international ads (both print & tv) designed for use by advertising agencies and their clients, so records are arranged by client or ad agency. Includes full color reproductions of the ads. Can search by broad “key visual” or “key word,” country (some have very few hits), and limited by year (1984 – 2003)
Historical/Cultural Archives
- Library of Congress American Memory Project
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. It provides information on, and access to, the digitized version of the Library's primary-source collections on American history and culture, including photographs, documents, sound recordings, and motion pictures. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
- California Archives Heritage Collection
“ The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Selected from nearly two hundred individual collections, this unique resource uses the latest online archiving techniques to highlight the rich themes of California's history. The California Heritage Collection is part of the Online Archive of California, a compilation of finding aids, or guides, to archival collections at more than 30 institutions.”
- Historical Photograph Collection at the Arizona State Archive
“ Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The collection includes about 90,000 images, including photographs, slides, negatives, glass plate negatives, tintypes, transparencies, postcards and others. Of these 90,000 images, about 9,000 are currently digitized and available to be searched on this site.”
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
The National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) holdings include an estimated 8 million photographs and graphic images, ranging in date from the 1850s to the present in the holdings of the Still Picture unit, 5 million photographs and graphic images in the holdings of the Presidential Libraries, and 9 million aerial photographs in the holdings of the Cartographic and Architectural unit. Many thousands of additional photographs are interfiled with textual records in the Washington, D.C. and College Park facilities as well as in the Regional Records Services Facilities.
The holdings of the NARA are complex and diverse; numerous units have digitized portions of their collections. Some representative examples are:
- The Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
“ The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. ARC allows you to perform a keyword, digitized image and location search. ARC's advanced functionalities also allow you to search by organization, person, or topic.”
To search the ARC for digital images linked to archival descriptions:
- Enter any term or terms(s) in the keyword box.
- Select the digital copy filter checkbox, listed as "Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies."
- Press Go.
If the descriptions you searched on have associated digital copies, the results will present 6 thumbnails images per page. Click on the Title to view the full description with the image or click on the image link to view the image(s) directly. For easy viewing, you can put the thumbnail images onto one page by clicking the "Printer Friendly Version" button. If you have a high number of hits, this display will take a little while to load.
Maps
- Sanborn Maps
“ The Sanborn Maps are large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970. Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. These maps are used by a wide range of researchers including local historians to locate and identify buildings and neighborhoods, urban historians to study the growth of towns and cities, and environmentalists concerned about impact of new developments.”
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
A private collector who has been digitizing his collection and making it available free over the web. This is a research level collection of historic maps. “The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 8,800 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.”
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Historical maps of the United States housed at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Library of Congress Geography & Map Division has a significant presence on the American Memory site.
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Alexandria Digital Library Geospatial Network
“ At present, the main items cataloged are a portion of the holdings of the UCSB's Map and Imagery Laboratory. There are over 15,000 holdings publicly available and online for download over the Internet.” Davidson Library, Map and Imagery Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara. There are additional resources at the top level page to the project site (gazetteer, feature type thesaurus).
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Microsoft TerraServer
The Microsoft TerraServer allows you view the world from a unique perspective- by zooming in on satellite photographs of the surface of the earth. It's fun to perform a search for your town, and then zoom in trying to find your block, house, or school.
Photojournalism
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AP Photo Archive (part of Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive)
The Associated Press photo archive features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as international photos. The collection includes the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.
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DailyNewsPix: The Photo Archive of the New York Daily News
DailyNewsPix is the online photo archive of the New York Daily News. This comprehensive visual history of New York, with photographs dating back to 1880, is updated daily with the latest news, celebrities and sports.” Claims to be the largest online photo collection on the web with 2.5 million photos.
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U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906 – 1971
A series of more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana
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The Hohenberger Collection
Dating from 1917-1960 and housed in the Lilly Library, consists primarily of photographs by Frank Michael Hohenberger, 1876-1963, Brown County photographer and newspaperman. The photograph collection totals 8300 prints and 9400 negatives. … The total collection is just over 18,700 items.
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Charles Weever Cushman
Amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.
Popular Culture
Magazines – Covers and Images
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Life Magazine
Includes "classic picture" and "cover collection". You can search all LIFE covers from 1936 to 1972, the years when LIFE was published as a weekly magazine.
- Mad Magazine
- Time Magazine -- covers since 1923
Cartoons
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Cartoonbank
“ Cartoonbank.com is the online home of The Cartoon Bank, a New Yorker Magazine company. At its heart is the Internet's leading searchable database of cartoon humor. The Cartoon Bank is the largest, most comprehensive stock house of quality single-panel cartoons in the world, with more than 85,000 records in our central archive -- including all the cartoons ever published in The New Yorker. More than 20,000 of those images are available right here on our web site.”
- www.eBay.com
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ARKive: Images of Life on Earth an audio-visual record on threatened species
"ARKive is leading the virtual conservation effort - finding, sorting, cataloguing and copying the key records of species, and building them into a comprehensive and enduring audio-visual record. For each species, we are selecting and digitising an average of 10 minutes of moving footage, 6 - 10 stills and sound recordings (where appropriate), to compile a complete profile of the species' characteristic behaviour and appearance. "ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of The WildscreenTrust.
Portraits
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National Portrait Gallery, London
This is the search feature for the National Portrait Gallery's online portrait database. The online database contains approximately 10,000 images selected from the million or more portraits of famous Britons in the Gallery's collections. Because of copyright restrictions, search results may not always include an image.
- National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
This interface searches the collection records for objects in the National Portrait Gallery or the Catalog of American Portraits, surveyed American portraiture in museums nationwide (including all National Portrait Gallery objects).
War Posters
Fine Art
Art in general
Museum Collections
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of over 82,000 objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Locate works of art by artist, title, subject, or other criteria. Images of more than 4,700 objects in the National Gallery's collection and approximately 10,600 related details are available. New images are added continually. Text and/or data on all of the more than 100,000 objects in the Gallery's collection can be found using various search capabilities.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Select “collections & exhibitions” then “browse the collection” Over 15,000 objects from the collection have been digitized and are available for searching and viewing.
Multi-museum collections
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Joconde
The database Joconde consists of more than 130,000 works, from the 7th century to the present, housed in more than 84 French museums, representing thousands of artists. Only works in the public domain are reproduced.
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Artcyclopedia
Artcyclopedia is a database that can be searched by artist name, title of work, or museum name. Results include links to museums and art galleries, image archives, other web sites, and articles.
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Mark Hardins Artchive
Over 2,000 reproductions of work by over 200 artists.
Specific works of art
- Indexes
- Catalogue raisonnes
- Art Abstracts ‘art reproduction’ search
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