Images

American Antiquarian Society - To locate images in their online catalog limit the search to Graphic Arts. Note: at this time (February 2008) the AAS does not provide access to actual online images through their catalog.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest - "This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment. The materials are drawn from the extensive collections of the University of Washington Libraries, the Cheney Cowles Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society in Spokane, and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle."

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 - Library of Congress collection of "approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models. Hundreds of private estates from all over the United States are represented in the collection through contemporary views of their houses and gardens."

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - "Gateway to the Library of Congress's vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library." (Many of the collections are listed individually on this page and throughout Digital Librarian.) There is a list of All Collections and you can browse collections by genre (photos and prints, maps, sheet music)

American Museum of Natural History - New York. The Library provides access to the Online Catalog. The Collections Database provides access to over 160,000 images and catalog descriptions from the North American Ethnographic Collection, the African Ethnographic Collection, the Asian Ethnographic Collection and the Ethnographic Textile Collection. In the North American Ethnographic Collection, you can search by culture, material, object name, catalog no., locale or donor name. A search for Catalog item E/ 2334 will retrieve the images of two Tlingit baskets. A search for ornament (object name) will retrieve over 800 images and a search for Plains (culture) and bead (material) will retrieve over 700 (including a buffalo robe (50 / 5860). An object name search for kachina retrieves 239 objects. There are some lovelay Navaho blankets (50.2/ 6840, 50.2/ 6841, 50.2/ 6842, 50 / 2091) and bracelets (50.2/ 4168, 50.2/ 4169, 50.2/ 4171, 50 / 6356 A, 50.2/ 2394). Searching by donor is particularly rewarding: try Auchincloss, Morgan, Wissler, Harvey, Boas, Mead, Jesup or Emmons.

Archnet - "Online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world." In the Digital Library you can view architecture by country, place, building type, century, decade, and site name.

Archives of the University of Notre Dame - The Photograph Collections have Images Available Online primarily student life and campus scenes, but there are a few interesting portraits, including one of John Zahm and Theodore Roosevelt, undated, but possibly taken in Brazil on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914).

Arkitekturmuseet - Stockholm. Swedish Museum of Architecture. Has over 2500 pictures in its image database.

Arnold Schoenberg Center - Vienna. Although primarily in German, this is a rich resource for Schoenberg material. The Library and Archive has scores, manuscripts, designs, paintings & drawings (including landscapes, portraits and self-portraits), letters, teaching materials and photographs.

Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 - Library of Congress collection "contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation, Jackson photographed city views, street and harbor scenes, landscapes, local inhabitants and Commission members as they travelled through North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania."

Art Images: There are many resources for locating art on the Web. Using Google Image Search is probably the quickest way to locate art, but often the images are too small or the links to the original sources are dead. Most search engines offer tools to find images. Many museums offer searchable databases and have digitized much of their collections. Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web has links to Museums & Galleries as does Jonathan Bowen in his Virtual Library museums pages (part of the WWW Virtual Library) and UNESCO Archives Portal
    The ImageBase of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has one of the largest free database of images on the Web with over 82,000 objects (including 3,000 Japanese prints). Other museums with large digitized collections include the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (more than 5,600 images - be sure to check the images only box), the Metropolitan Museum in New York (over 6,500 images), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (over 30,000 images), the Getty in Los Angeles (which also has a Media Gallery), the Tate Gallery in London (65,000 images), the National Gallery of Canada (over 10,000 images in Cybermuse), the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (with almost 24,000 objects in its Images Online), the British Museum's Compass database (5,000 objects), the State Hermitage Museum Digital Collection in St. Petersburg and London's National Portrait Gallery (over 37,759 images).
    Though it is a subscription database, the AMICO Library is searchable and provides thumbnails of over 100,000 works of art owned by members of the Art Museum Image Consortium. Other useful resources include the Perseus Digital Library (search for architecture), Archnet, ArtServe at the Australian National University, Artist Index, Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures, the Art Renewal Center, and Collage Portal. The Agence photographique de la R&eeeacute;;union des mus&eeeacute;;es nationaux is a searchable database of art owned by selected French museums with over 100,000 color images and over 500,000 black & white images. ART[image] is a joint digitization project of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Mus&eeeacute;;e national des beaux-arts du Qu&eeeacute;;bec and the Mus&eeeacute;;e d'art contemporain de Montr&eeeacute;;al. SIRIS: the Smithsonian Online Catalog contains over 29,000 digital images.
    Commercial resources include the Artcyclopedia which has indexed 1200 art sites, and offers more than 32,000 links directly to an estimated 100,000 works by over 7,500 artists, CGFA--A Virtual Art Museum, Web Gallery of Art, a database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over over 13,500 reproductions, Mark Harden's Artchive, Nicolas Pioch's WebMuseum with Famous Paintings Collection. Art Museum Image Consortium - Not-for-profit association of institutions engaged in building a joint digital library which documents their collections, to be made available to the university, public library, and kindergarten-through-grade-12 educational communities. Provides access to a searchable Thumbnail Catalogue.

Art of the Poster 1880-1918 - Lawrence University

ArtsEdNet Image Gallery - Includes all the art that appears on the Getty's ArtsEdNet site, as well as artworks from featured programs. Sorted by artist, title and date.

ArtServe - 130,000 art and architecture images, mainly from the Mediterranean Basin. (Michael Greenhalgh, Professor of Art History, Australian National University.)

Asian Historical Architecture - Over 6300 photos of 442 sites in sixteen countries (Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korean, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam). Timothy Ciccone created this website; the photographs have been contributed by many photographers throughout the world. These photographs may be used for educational purposes (credit the site "www.orientalarchitecture.com"and the contributor of the photos).

Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - Over 700 endoscopic images taken by David M. Martin and Ralph C. Lyons, both MDs at Atlanta South Gastroenterology.

Atlas of Medical Parasitology - University of Torino project provides images of human parasites (microscopical, clinical, radiological or epidemiological aspects).

Atlas Van der Hagen and Atlas Beudeker - Dutch atlases of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are searchable by source, date, name, geography and keyword. Joint project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the British Library. You can also view the maps per atlas (browse). The Atlas Beudeker consists of Volume 21: Conquests of the Netherlands with 134 images and the Atlas van der Hagen consists of four volumes with 447 images. The Atlas van der Hagen has some fine city views (panoramas) of Smirna, Jerusalem, Batavia, Peking, Hong-Kong, Algiers, Rabat, Mexico City, Havana, Hälsingborg, Kristianstadt, Krakow, Dantzig, Belgrade, and a series of views of the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Turkish Army.

Australian Libraries Gateway - National Library of Australia. With links to Online Exhibitions.

Banco de la República, Colombia - Bogotá. Their Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango has a number of Collections including de Artes Plásticas, Documental, Instrumentos Musicales. There is also a Museo del Oro.

Baseball Cards: 1887-1914 - 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914 in the Library of Congress. Searchable by keyword and browsable by player, team, league, city and card set.

Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles - Tim Baroni, SUNY Cortland

Bayerische StaatsBibliothek (BSB) - German National Library, Munich. There is a Digitale Bibliothek with a number of digital projects, including Book Illustrations (Druckgraphische Buchillustrationen) with alphabetical (subject ) index. The Digitale Sammlungen (Digital Collections) include a Photograph Database with over 66.000 digitized and catalogued images. Most of the site is available in German only, so navigation is a bit tricky.

Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection - Cornell University Library Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections.

Beeldbank - Dutch National Archives Image Bank. You can browse by theme (World War II, Maps,

Beinecke Rare Book Library Digital Collections - Yale University. Images of manuscripts, letters, photographs, drawings, engravings, paintings, objects. The library is particularly rich in American literature and Western Americana. Try a phrase search for Norman Holmes Pearson, Eugene O'Neill, Hilda Doolittle, Bryher, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, David Herbert Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Maximilian Wied, W.H. Jackson, George Catlin, Edward S. Curtis, Hartley Burr Alexander, Alfred J. Miller, John James Audubon, Codex Borbonicus, Societe Anonyme, Indians of North America etc.

Berkeley Lab Image Library - Over 700 photographs and images relating to particle physics from the Ernest Orlando Lawrence National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

BibliOdyssey - Stunning images, intelligent commentary and links to sources, gathered by Peacay (aka PK and Paul K). FUEL Design has published his book - BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images from the Internet (2007) with a Foreword by Dinos Chapman. There is an interview with Paul K.: The Bibliodyssey Book: An Interview With Paul K by Elatia Harris, 3 Quarks Daily, 29 October 2007.

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (National Library of Portugal) - There is a Biblioteca Nacional Digital (Digital Library) with catalog (catálogo), as well as a author (autor) and subject index. Among the items newly digitized (Obras novas digitalizadas ) are a number of high resolution images of musical scores (Música impressa) and maps (Material cartográfico) including Atlas de Portugal, A compleat set of new charts on thirty-eight large plates containing an accurate survey of the coast of Portugal and the Mediterrane sea and a musical score manuscript by João Domingos Bontempo, Quinteto para piano e cordas. Memória contains the "cultural identity of Portugal". Porbase is the online catalog.

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Qu&eeacute;bec - Has Collection num&eeacute;rique. A search for Gustave B&eeacute;dard in Pistard will retrieve 85 photographs of a 1941 fishing expedition on the Metabetchouane and Metascouac rivers and Lac Hirondelle. Other outstanding online images include Chemin et &eeacute;glise le long de la rivière Malbaie (1942); Barques de pêcheurs à Saint-Georges-de-Malbaie (1940); Paysage à la Malbaie - Herm&eeacute;n&eeacute;gilde Lavoie (1941); Terres à La Malbaie - Herm&eeacute;n&eeacute;gilde Lavoie (1942); Hôtel Chamard à La Malbaie (1943) and many others. There are also over 1,000 online photographs by Herm&eeacute;n&eeacute;gilde Lavoie (1908-1973) who is known for his "cr&eeacute;ation de cours d'hôtellerie ainsi qu'aux campagnes de conservation du patrimoine architectural."

Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon - View over 12,000 images from the library's magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula from the Fifth Century to the Renaissance. From home page select Collections num&eeacute;ris&eeacute;es, then connexion à la base ENLUMINURES. A title search (Titre du livre) for Livre d'heures (Book of Hours), for example, will retrieve over 1400 results. You can also search by manuscript number (Cote du livre). Try Ms 514. There is also a list of Expositions virtuelles.

Big Picture Book of Viruses - David M. Sander's site has viral images listed by their taxonomic groups.

Bilddatenbank Fotoarchiv Hoffmann - Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. A searchable database of over 66,000 photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer. A name search for Churchill retrieves 34 photographs, a name search for Braun, Eva (who was once Hoffmann's office assistant) retrieves over 350 images including one of her as a child, A search for Berchtesgaden, Hitler's retreat in the Bavarian Alps near the German-Austrian border, retrieves over 2,000 results.

Bildarchiv Foto Marburg - German art and architecture database provides access to over 620,000 photographs. Search for Illustrationen, Bibliotheca, Bibliothek, Buch, Textilien, Photographie, Fotograf, Print, Portrats, Blumen, Bombenopfer, Graphik, Lithographie, Maler, New York, Biedermeier, Landschaft etc. in the Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur. There is a Help (Hilfe) page but it's in German. Look for Mal andere Gesichter sehen Zoo Schwerin by Renate Gaulke. A search for vintage will retrieve over 2600 digital images by such photographers as: Erich Andres, Cecil Beaton, Arthur Benda, Johannes Berndt, Willi Beutler, Anny Breer, Hilde Brinckmann-Schröder, D'Ora-Benda, Minya Diez-Dührkoop, Carl Dransfeld (8), Alfred Ehrhardt (101), Alfred Eisenstaedt (30) George Bernard Shaw at his typewriter (1932) and Marlene Dietrich at Art School Ball (1928) Andreas Feininger (105), Franz Fiedler (57), Folkwang-Auriga Verlag, Lotte Genzsch (42), Franz Grainer (18), Johannes Grubenbecher (1886-1967), Walter Hege (453), Hildegard Heise (241), Gustav Henry Helms (7), Werner Hensel (30), Paul Horst, Boris Wsewolodowitsch Ignatowitsch, Lotte Jacobi (16), Madame d'Ora, Gerhard Kerff (60), Henry Koehn (21), Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (49), Helmar Lerski (26), Herbert List (26), Ernst Paul Heinrich Magin (104), Albert Renger-Patzsch (204), Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko (159), Theo Schafgans (Junior), Iwan Michailowitsch Schagin, Arkadi Samoilowitsch Schaichet, Franz Schensky (Helgoland), Hugo Schmidt (Hamburg 1942-45), Raimund Ferdinand Schmiedt (22), Joseph Schorer (43) Bombing of Hamburg in 1943, Friedrich Seidenstücker, Carl Siemsen, Paul Strand, Carl Strüwe, Hedda Walther, Friedrich Warncke, Edward Weston (The Summers, Tennessee, 1938), Wolff und Tritschler, Willy Zielke

Bilder ur Nordens Flora - Full text of 1917 work by Swedish botanist Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856-1928). Includes descriptions and images of 526 plants and an index. In Swedish. From Project Runeberg which also has portraits by Carl Larsson. See his Greta & Dora Nora (1891), Dora Lamm med söner (1903) and Self Portrait (1895).

Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America - Edited by F [Frederick] Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. "Important and out-of-print", this Smithsonian digitization project consists of 58 volumes and over 18,000 images. Four volumes are devoted to "description of 1413 species of Aves belonging to the Central American fauna." "Salvin's long continued ill health, and sudden death in 1898, retarded the conclusion of the Third Volume, and this was subsequently finished with the assistance of Dr. [R. Bowdler] Sharpe and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant." [p. 57, Introductory Volume.] "The material for this work was mainly obtained by Salvin and myself during our several visits to Central America. Salvin visited Guatemala three times....." [p. viii, Introduction to Volume 1]. See also Review by Robert Ridgwa in Auk, Vol. 7, Number 2, April/June, 1890, pp. 189-195.

BioLib: Online Library of Biological Books - Kurt Stüber. See Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur: 1899-1904 and Die Radiolarien (Berlin, 1862).

BioImages: Virtual Field-Guide - Offers over 17,000 images of Natural History objects, mostly British in origin. Multiple views are often available, as is the case for Gentianella amarella x germanica. The site has an index.

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - Over 30,000 ballads which can be searched by title, first line, subject, author, performer and publisher. There is also iconographic indexing or illustration based searching of the broadsides. These have been gathered into a single catalogue along with a scanned image of each ballad sheet. Each record of a broadside which contains a musical score has a MIDI sound file.

Bodleian Library: Toyota City Imaging Project - Collection of motoring and transport images from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera; database can be searchable by keyword or by browsing through images categorized by type of transport.

Bodleian Library: Western Manuscripts to 1500 - 1000 images of manuscripts, arranged by century and country of origin.

Botanical Works by Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925) - Part of the SETIS Australian Electronic Texts project of the Univsersity of Sydney Library.

Bridgeman Art Library - "World's leading source of fine art with images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists." A search for South Pole Exploration, for example, retrieves over 100 images.

British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies - UK trade association for picture libraries and the largest organisation of its kind in the world, with over 370 members. The Image Search option does not locate actual images, but rather libraries and companies which have picture collections.

British Columbia Archives - The Search Engine provides a useful feature which allows you to Only Match with Images On-line (Visual Records Only). A keyword search for Haida in Visual Records, retrieves 54 images, a search for Indian People retrieves 858 images, a search for Dossetter retrieves 45 images.Among the Visual Records are photogrpahs of and works by the artist Emily Carr (Emily Carr Sewing and Outfit, A family picnic, Carr family on the beach, Haida Totems, Cha-atl, Queen Charlotte Island).

British Library: Images Online - "Access to thousands of the greatest images from the British Library's collections which include manuscripts, rare books and maps spanning almost 3000 years with material from every continent." With subject index and title index.

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. Samples: Built-in Cabinets at a Shaker Church Family Dwelling House, Shaker Village Road, Canterbury, Merrimack County, NH, taken by photographer Bill Finney in 1976; Merchant & Drovers Tavern, Saint George's & Westfield Avenues, Rahway, Union County, NJ (legend has it that George Washington stopped here), taken by photographer R. Merritt Lacey, April 14, 1936; Jedediah Barber House, 18 North Main Street, Homer, Cortland County, NY, photo taken some time after 1933; Sig Sautelle Circus Training House, South Main Street (State Route 11), Homer, Cortland County, NY, taken by photographer Jack. E. Boucher, 1966. ("Built 1902, living quarters on first and second floors, training area for acrobats on third florr, training ring for animals in cellar." In 1919 it housed migrant workers, in 1960 it was a restaurant); Bailey Island Bridge, Bailey Island, Cumberland County, ME, taken taken by photographer Jet Lowe (?), 1984; There are four photographs of Indian Castle Church, State Route 55, Town of Danube, Herkimer County (Fort Hendrick), taken by photographer Nelson E. Baldwin on May 5, 1936. "Indian Castle Church was built in 1769 by Captain Samuel Clyde for Sir William Johnson, who presented it to the Canajoharies (Mohawks of the Upper or Canajoharie Mohawks Castle), in 1770. It is the only Colonial Indian Mission Chursch standing in New York State and the only surviving Colonial building of the Mohawks or Iroquois Castles. The Church was built on land owned by Joseh Brandt [Brant], the famous Mohawk Chieftain, who was noted for his pity [piety?] and who translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language. During the Revolution, the Mohawk Indian raiders, formerly residents here, attempted to steal the bell of this old church. They, however, neglected to fasten its clapper and its ringing awakened the parish settlers who armed themselves, sallied out and recovered the old church bell." [Data Page 2].

Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F.Supp.2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) - "Decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright because the copies lack originality. Even if accurate reproductions require a great deal of skill, experience and effort, the key element for copyrightability under U.S. law is that copyrighted material must show sufficient originality." (Wikipedia). See also Owning the Past: Images, Music, and Movies by Daniel J. Cohen, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, and Roy Rosenzweig, Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University, authors of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, And Presenting the Past on the Web. Cornell's Legal Information Institute provides the text of the decision.

California Heritage Collection - "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. You can Browse the Collection. (Select "container listing" to access the images.)

California Missions - Historic photographs of all 21 California Missions.

CalPhotos - "Collection of 83,670 images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes." Part of the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project.

Canadian Heritage Gallery - Extensive collection of historical photos, original documents, Canadian artwork, maps, and illustrations. The Galleries are organized by subject. For example, there are sections for First Nations, Places and People.

Canadian Landscapes Photo Collection - Collection of photos of Canadian landscapes and landforms. Brief geological explanations provide insight on how the features developed. The photos were taken by scientists of the Geological Survey of Canada during the last 30 years and are browsable by province. There are 97 images of Nova Scotia, for example, with some spectacular Cape Breton Island views.

Canadian Museum of Civilization - Toronto. Site provides a variety of information on indigenous cultures, archaeology, folk art and Canadian history. Virtual Collection Storage provides images of items on the museum, including some very handsome mittens and belts in the Ethnology Collection.

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography - Ottawa. You can search the collection

Canadian War Poster Collection - McGill University collection of war posters from World War I and World War II is accessible by subject and by artist.

CARLI Digital Collections - Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).

CartoonBank - New Yorker Magazine site offers a free e-card service and a searchable database of over 20,000 cartoons.

Cary Graphic Arts Collection - Library on printing history located at the Rochester Institute of Technology offers selections from its collection ranging from Medieval Manuscripts to the 20th century.

Catalonian Manuscripts - Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

CEEC - Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis -

Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance - "More than 200.000 entries contain pictorial and written documents, locations, persons, concepts of times and styles, events, research literature and illustrations."

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, New York - With a searchable online collection of Rochester Images which may be printed for personal, educational, or research use. The database will include 22,000 historical and contemporary images from Rochester and Monroe County and currently includes at least 2,000 images.

Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature - University of Kent. There is a catalogued Database of over 90,000 images. Free registration.

Centre historique des Archives nationales - French historical documents and images. You may use Alta Vista's Babelfish to navigate the site, which is available only in French. For example in ARCHIM, la banque d'images num&eeacute;riques, you can browse documents and images by theme (Consultation des dossiers th&eeacute;matiques).

Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China - 99 political posters drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. For a related site see Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propanganda Poster Pages. Landsberger, a lecturer at the Sinological Institute of Leiden has been collecting Chinese political posters for more than 25 years (he has over 1,000). This online exhibition groups the posters by genres.

Charles Booth Online Archive - Guides, digitized images and maps of Victorial London from the collections at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of London Library.

Charles F. Gillette Photograph Collection - Library of Virginia collection consists of photograph collection of 862 images, part of the collection of Charles F. Gillette Papers at the Library of Virginia. Gillette (1886-1969) is "nationally recognized as one of the premier landscape architects associated with the restoration and re-creation of historic gardens in the upper South and especially Virginia.". The images "primarily depict Virginia houses, estates, gardens, and other landscape design projects. There are also many personal photographs of Gillette, Ellen Cogswell Gillette, and the various homes in which they lived."

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection - Slides taken by Charles W. Cushman, an amateur photographer, between 1938 and 1969. You can browse by year, location, subject, and genre. Among the places he visited are Austria (579 slides), France (169), Germany (202), Greece (381), Italy (234), Lebanon (133), Mexico (133), Turkey (201), United Kingdom (759), and, above all, the United States (11,374). There are many slides of the West: California (4723), Arizona (943), Utah (368), Colorado (456), Texas (214), New Mexico (95). Some favorites: Children of the Mill, Johnstown, Pennsylvania (July 26, 1940), Rocks at Otter Pt., Mt. Desert Island, Maine (September 18, 1941), Boat harbor at Camden, Maine - late afternoon (September 18, 1941), The old Fulton Stret Market on Saturday Afternoon (September 27, 1941), Collecting War-time salvage on Lower East Side (October 4, 1942), Burial vaults in wall of old Cemetery New Orleans (December 14, 1951), El Paso's central district and the Franklin Mtns. from South Santa Fe St. (January 1, 1952) Mule and cart & partly cleared Mesquite acreage near Thurber, Texas (November 14, 1953) Narrow building Port area, Beirut (May 2, 1965),

Charting the Nation maps of Scotland, 1550-1740 - Over 3,500 high resolution images (University of Edinburgh)

Chicago Imagebase - "Web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region. On this site you will find a wide variety of images and other data along with information on how to use this data to study the city."

Chinese Qing Dynasty - 224 images, primarily ceramics, from the Chinese Qing Dynasty, (also known as Anonymous Chinese Qing Dynasty), 1644 - 1912, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Many of the objects have detailed images - see the cup, the brush washer and the reticulated box.

Ciel et Terre - Online exhibition from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France includes images from the Catalan Atlas (1375-1380) and offers a wealth of information on the history of astronomy with biographies, a glossary, a chronology, bibliography, maps and a quantity of images from the library's manuscript collection. Elegant and beautifully designed - worth a visit even if you don't read French.

Claire Holt Papers - "Approximately 1,780 slides of Indonesia created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project." You can browse the complete image database via the Luna Insight browser.

Colección Virtual de Patrimonio Artístico y Arquitectónico Chileno y LatinoAmericano - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Collect Britain: Putting History in Place - "90,000 images and sounds from the British Library."

Collected Visions - New York University Center for Advanced Technology project has "approximately 3,000 images collected from over 300 people are in the searchable archive of family snapshots."

Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century - Exhibition at the University of Delaware Library

Colorado Digitization Program - The projects include: Heritage Colorado Collections, Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection, Colorado's Main Streets, Western Trails.

Colorado Plateau Digital Archives - Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. There is a Finding Guide which provides descriptions and indicates which collections have been digitized. You can search or browse by collection or creator. For example, the Philip Johnston Collection, with 275 images, documents life on the Navajo Reservation between 1895-1945. The 93 images in the Jo Mora Collection shows Hopi villages, dances, and daily life; ranching and ranchlife. (Jo Mora was a sculptor, painter, illustrator, muralist and author). The 57 color images in the John Harvey Butchart Collection show hiking trails of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River and Little Colorado River. There are also online exhibits.

Columbia University Digital Image Access Project - Architectural images including Venice, the Florence, Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine, Amiens Cathedral, the Bronx.

Connecticut History Online - Digital image collection of 14,000 photographs, drawings and prints, browsable by keyword, subject, creator, title and date. Collaborative effort of the Connecticut Historical Society, the Mystic Seaport Museum, and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut.

Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative - American Theological Library Association and the Association of Theological Schools. "Provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography." You can Search the Database or Browse the Collections.

Corbis Picture Experience

Cornell University Image Collections

Cornell University Library Digital Collections - Includes a collection of Political Americana, over 2,000 "presidential promotional and commemorative items dating from 1789 to 1980."

Corsair - "Thousands of digital images from The Pierpont Morgan Library's renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are now available in CORSAIR. The collection spans some ten centuries of Western illumination, and contains manuscripts from all the major schools, including some of the great masterpieces of medieval manuscript art. The images and accompanying descriptions are the product of an extraordinary collaboration between the Library and the Index of Christian Art to photograph, digitize, and describe all significant illustrations within the Morgan's medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. CORSAIR currently offers more than 28,000 medieval images, and the number is constantly growing." Search for the Farnese Hours, Rome, 1546 (MS M.0069) with description, and the Lindau Gospels (MS M.1). Search for Psalter, Antiphonary, Book of Hours, Missal, Bible, Breviary, Bestiary, Apocalypse, Gospel etc. See also Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.

Creative Americans Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964 - Searchable and browsable collection of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964 consisting primarily of portrait photographs of celebrities; American Memory Project, Library of Congress. See his portraits of : Truman Capote (1948), Mabel Dodge Luhan (1934), Lena Horne, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, Jacob Epstein, Robert Morse, Georgia O'Keeffe and Billie Holliday.

Crimeboss - Crime comic books from the 1940s and 1950s. Includes a gallery of images with over 100 crime comic covers.

Curtis Botanical Magazine - Digital collection of "one thousand fifty records, one thousand forty-eight plates, (two of the original plates are missing, plates 797 & 860), and there are one thousand four hundred fifty-six related pages of text from the first 26 volumes. The entire print collection of 164 volumes is housed at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland." Images include Heath-leaved Banksia, Honey-bearing Protea, Laurel-leaved Rhododendron and the Yellow Day-lily. An electronic publication of the National Agricultural Library Rare Book Collection.

Daguerreotypes, 1842-1862 - 600 daguerreotypes consisting primarily of portraits but also including architectural views, outdoor scenes, and painted portraits by the Mathew Brady Studio; American Memory Project, Library of Congress.

David Rumsey Map Collection - Over 11,000 digital images of maps from the David Rumsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of historic maps in the United States. "The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials." Atlases including Jefferys' "American Atlas" (1776), Popple's "Map of the British Empire in America" (1733), Collot's "Journey in North America" (1796), Tanner's "American Atlas" (1823), Burr's "American (Postal) Atlas" (1839), and Garcia Cubas' "Atlas Pintoresco" (1885).

Denver Public Library Photography Collection - "Database contains some 100,000 images and catalog records of North American Indians, pioneers, railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns, city, farm, and ranch life, recreation, scenery, news events, and numerous other subjects and states." Try searching for the following: Indians of North America, Wounded Knee, Dakota, Sioux, Ute, Pueblo, David Barry, George Beam, C. G. Morledge, Horace Poley, Edward Boos, Sitting Bull or Red Cloud. A search for Wounded Knee Massacre, for example, retrieves 85 photographs, each carefully catalogued and annotated and with a url which can be bookmarked. Access to this collection is also provided via the Library of Congress American Memory Project's History of the American West, described below.

Dermatologic Image Database - University of Iowa College of Medicine

DermIS - Among the image databases offered by the Dermatology Information System, a cooperative effort of the Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine (Univ. of Heidelberg) and the Dept. of Dermatology (Univ. of Erlangen) are the Dermatology Online Atlas with over 4,000 online images, PeDOIA, a Pediatric Dermatology Atlas with over 2,000 images and Hebra-Atlas: Historical Images.

Detroit Institute of Arts - Their Diamondial, a visual resources art image database, contains over 1000 images from the DIA's permanent collection.

Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - Library of Congress photograph collection includes over 25,000 items, mostly of the eastern U.S., has a subject index and is searchable by keyword

Deutschen Historischen Museum - Berlin. With list of collections (also available in English). The Everyday Life Culture II: Textiles and Clothing, collection "consists of approximately 8,000 pieces of non-military clothing dating from the middle of the 18th century up to the present". There is a Image Archive data base and a DHM object data base.

Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft - Digitized Colonial Picture Archive. This is a project of the Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main to digitize photographs that "illustrate the many-facetted life of the colonial fathers: transport and commerce, churches and hospitals, mining and big game-hunting in the foreground of such impressive scenery, as well as survival in the desert. See project description in English. A search (Recherche im Bildarchiv) for the region Südafrika (South Africa), for example, retrieves 698 photographs, while a search for portrait retrieves over 3,000 results among them Frau and Kindergruppe.

Deutsche Fotothek Dresden

Digital Archive of Art: Online Images from Boston College - Slides by Jeffery Howe, Fine Arts Department.

Digital Clendening - Project to digitalize the Clendening History of Medicine Library at Kansas University Medical Center includes Rare Text Images, hundreds of images from medical and natural history texts, most of which were printed before 1800, organized by theme.

Digital Image Access Project - 1000 images pertaining to the theme "the Urban Landscape". (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University)

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 - Over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States, from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

Emilio Segrè Visual Archives - Named in honor of the Nobel Laureate for nuclear and high-energy physics, the archive contains over 2,000 online images consisting of historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials related primarily to American physicists and astronomers of the 20th century. (American Institute of Physics.)

The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated - Library of Congress site features photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944).

English Heritage - "British Government's official adviser in England on all matters concerning heritage conservation." ViewFinder is a browsable picture library with over 18,000 images, many by Henry W. Taunt, "an important photographer who worked out of premises in Oxford between 1860-1922. His main interests were Oxfordshire and surrounding counties, the River Thames, customs and local history." There are hundreds of images that depict Gloucestershire, for example. (Search for Hidcote House, Hidcote Bartrim, Ebrington, Gloucestershire (Reference no: CC73/00559.) There are some wonderful market and village scenes: Broadway, Worcestershire (ref. no. CC56/00790), St Kenelms Church, Sapperton, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: HT09433), Market Place, Fairford, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC57/00343), Burford Street, Lechlade, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC72/01060), Barnsley Village, Barnsley, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC72/01176), Arlington Row, Bibury, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC72/00992), Sheep Street, Burford, Oxfordshire (Ref. no: CC57/00534), 3 Jockey Row, Badminton, Avon (Ref. no: BB98/08264), High Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC72/00936), Ankerwyke House, Picnic House, Wraysbury, Berkshire (Ref. no: HT02820). Streatley House, Gardens, Streatley, Berkshire (Ref. no: HT13710), Hatherop Castle, Gardens, Hatherop, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC72/01932) and Abingdon Abbey, Sham Abbey, Abingdon, Oxfordshire (Ref. no: CC97/02085).

Enluminures - French government database (base de donn&eeacute;es) has 16,810 online images of illuminated manuscripts. You can browse by author, title, subject, and type of decoration. One subject, for example, is Anges musiciens (angel musicians).

Eugen Kozlovskiy Photos - Photographs taken by a Russian writer.

European Commission on Preservation and Access

European Visual Archive (EVA) - Searchable image resource of over 18,0000 historical photographs dating from 1840.

Feather Book of Dionisio Minaggio - Made entirely from the skins and feathers of birds, the book was created by Dinonisio Minaggio, gardener to the Govenor of Milan in 1618. (Owned by the Blacker-Wood Library of Biology, McGill University and a Digital Collections Program of the McGill University Libraries.)

FindLaw Medical Images - Locate medical illustrations and exhibits from a database of over 10,000 images.

Finding Images Online - Paula Berinstein

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Over 82,000 online images (including 3,000 Japanese prints).

Fitzwilliam Museum - University of Cambridge. Seach the Collection provides selected images listed by name and object.

Fixing Shadows: Still Photography - J. David Sapir's site is "devoted to photographic topics including the work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value"

Flickr - Poto management and sharing application and a good source for images. See, for example, Thomas Hawk's Photoblogging Disneyland and librarianinblack's photos (Librarian in Black)

Flora Danica Online - Danish National Library of Science and Medicine project to digitize 3240 folio-sized pictures of wild plants in Denmark from Flora Danica and provide a searchable database of plants. The Flora Danica porcelain dinner set, made between 1790 and 1802, consisted of 1802 pieces, of which 1500 survive. You can browse the images by plate number. Examples include Digitalis purpurea (foxglove), Dipsacus silvester (teasel) and Delphinium Consolida (larkspur).

Flora of California (1909-1940) - By Willis Linn Jepson. With index.

Flora of Europe: a photographic herbarium - 660 pictures of flowers, mostly of southern Europe.

Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz - By Otto Wilhelm Thom&eeacute;, 1885 - 1905, 4 volumes. 572 botanical illustrations, also listed alphabetically. (Part of Kurt Stüber's online library of historic biological books.)

Florida Postcard Collection - "Contains approximately 5,000 postcards of Florida buildings, landmarks, cities and towns, tourist attractions, and other views." (Archives and Special Collections Department, Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami.)

Florida Photographic Collection - "Collection spans a wide range of visual images from copies of mid 15th Century maps to current photographs" and consists of over 100,000 scanned images, many depicting a Florida that has been long lost. A search for fishing camp, for example, retrieves 35 images including Long Key Fishing Camp Lodge and Cottage and Zane Grey and his brother R. C. Grey with fishing catch. A search for Winter Park retrieves over 200 results, including Judge Welbourne home (1886) and Hugh MacCollum residence. Other gems include Land auction for Brickell Hammock townsite (1923), Bauknight family home, Micanopy (ca. 1890) and Gateway entrance to Dr. Lucius Montgomery home, Micanopy.

Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Venezia / Venice. You can search the online Photo library of the Institute of Art History "consisting of around 30,000 images of art works of various types in Veneto Museums."

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Media Archive - Searchable archive of more than 3 000 of the most recent and relevant pictures in FAO's Photo Library.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Has over 10,000 digitized documents including a new collection of copyright free On-Line Photos which you can browse or search by keyword or date. The collection is organized into three sections: the Roosevelt Family, the Great Depression and the New Deal and World War II. Examples of family photographs include Franklin D. Roosevelt with Harvard class of 1904, group shot in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, Franklin D. Roosevelt with Cousin Jean Delano in Campobello, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt with Anna and baby James.

Fuch's Botanical - 516 woodcuts of plants, some colored, from Leonhard Fuch's Primi de stirpivm historia commentariorvm tomi uiuæ imagines, in exiguam angustioremq[ue] forman contractæ, ac quam fieri potest artificiosissime expressæ...Basileæ, 1545. Site created by Richard Siderits, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

Fun Google hack with Sony Digital Cameras - "Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them." Others: Canon: IMG_0001.JPG....

Fungi of California - Over 1800 images of the higher fungi (mushrooms) found in the state of California. (Michael Wood and Fred Stevens.)

Fungus plates painted under the supervision of Elias Fries - Selection of paintings of fungi by the Swedish mycologist Elias Fries (1794-1878) from the Swedish Museum of Natural History. See also Linnean herbarium and Den virtuella floran. In addition, there are 77 images of plants collected between the years 1866-1869 on St. Martin in the Lesser Antilles by Dutch naturalist Hendrik van Rijgersma (1835-1877) including the spectacular Jatropha gossypifolia L.

Gallery of the Open Frontier - This University of Nebraska Press site is keyword-searchable, digital image library of photos, paintings, and drawings portraying the history of the American West drawn initially from the primary collections of the National Archives. There is a clickable map of the U.S. A search for Arizona retrieved over 1200 results. You can also search for related books published by the Press.

George Washington Wilson Collection - Over 350 (searchable & browsable) images of Britain "from the simple grandeur of Fingal's cave on the Isle of Staffa to the bustle of London's busy Oxford Street with its street criers and horse-drawn cabs". (University of Aberdeen Photographic Archives.)

Getty Photo Study Collection Database - Contains mostly descriptive records but there are several links to actual images. Try this search: limit your search to the Tapestries collection and use Getty Trust for key words, then select Search & Display. This search retrieves 646 records. Select Display Selected. Clicking on the number in the top line (Linked Image) will display the image.

Giza Archives Project - The Giza excavation was undertaken by Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, under the leadership of George Andrew Reisner, between 1902 and 1947. This impressive interactive web project, directed by Peter Der Manuelian, consists of thousands of photographs (over 22,000), expedition diaries (over 3,000 pages), maps and plans (over 10,000), and a digital library of full-text books and articles (over 200). To get an idea of the scope of the project, search for Head of alabaster statue of Menkaure or an advanced people search for Said Ahmed.