Images

Allison Delarue Collection - Part of the William Seymour Theatre Collection at Princeton University, the site includes images of dancers in porcelains, prints, original art, photographs and posters.

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945 - Provides access to over 160,000 black & white and color photographs of rural and small town America during the late 1930s from the Library of Congress. "The images are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II." Photographers include Ben Shahn, Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets - Library of Congress collection of single printed sheets, with lyrics but no music, most of which dating from the 1850s to the 1870s. Consisting of scanned images of the original sheet along with the lyrics, the collection offers "a unique perspective on the political, social, and economic life of the time, especially during the Civil War." Searchable by keywords and browsable by titles, names and publishers.

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 recently introduced 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.

American Philosophical Society - Founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1743. The Graphic Department has an Image Gallery. Other online images include Barton-Delafield Botanical Illustrations, Images of Franz BoasHistory of Eugenics, Benjamin Franklin Images & Artifacts, Genetics, Lewis and Clark: Illustrations from the Journals, Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches, Philadelphia Views and A Zeno Shindler's American Indian Portraits.

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 Réunion des musées 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 Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. 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 Tibet - Has a searchable database of Himalayan paintings consisting of over one thousand Tibetan Buddhist thangkas, dating from the 12th to 19th century.

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.

Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: The Clifford H. Baldowski Collection at the Richard B. Russell Library - University of Georgia Libraries collection has 2,500 cartoons from the editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution. "His work is a rich source for those studying political reorganization in Georgia and the growth of Atlanta as well as the the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnam conflict, Middle East tensions, and Watergate."

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 Cantonale et Universitaire Fribourg - This Swiss library makes available online a number of images from its Photograph Collections (Fonds photographiques fribourgeois). Search the catalogue by keyword (par mot-clé) for image fixe and combine it with a subject.

In the Fonds Jacques Thévoz (1918-1983) are over 700 online photographs "showing with humor, finesse and perspicacity, the daily life of the poeple of Fribourg". Examples:
Famille Jacques Thévoz (Véronique, Laurent et Madeleine) avec l'oncle Victor (Blanc) et son épouse
Mme Henseler et sa fille Françoise (1953)
Mariage Frey-Monney: cortège nuptial, Broye, Estavayer-le-Lac (1950)
Mademoiselle Savioz
Yoki Aebischer, artiste peintre, dans son atelier, Fribourg, Bourg, rue des Epouses (1949).
The Fonds Albert Ramstein is a collection of over 350 online portraits and photographs taken by Albert Ramstein between 1923 and 1945. Examples:
M. T. H. M. Meyer, St. Albanvorst 41, Bâle (1906)
Couple avec deux enfants en calèche attelée
Deux jeunes femmes
The Fonds Benedikt Rast consists of over 1400 online images primarily of architecture and landscape. Examples:
Wünnewil, [petite fille cousant et armoire]
Bösingen, [ancien grenier]
Bösingen, château de Vogelshaus, portail principal
Fonds Maxime Biolley is a collection of 226 photographs by Maxime Biolley taken between 1880 et 1914. The photographs "immortalisent le microcosme quotidien de la campagne fribourgeoise au tournant du 19e s. : fermes et fermiers, hommes d'église, mendiants et vagabonds, bétail." Examples:
Sarine, Illens, commune de Rossens: ferme du château d'Illandzo
Sarine, Treyvaux, château des Roulin: Emile Roulin, frère d'Ursule
Sarine, Treyvaux, derrière La Place: garçons de Nicolas Papaux
There is also a postcard collection, Fonds des cartes postales fribourgeoises, arranged by subject and Localité. Examples:
Fribourg, enfants réfugiés
Pensionnat de Ste-Ursule, Fribourg - Un dortoir (circau 1915)
Bellegarde (Jaun) - Hôtel de la Cascade taken by the photographer Charles Morel.

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 numérisées, 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 Preußischer Kulturbesitz - "Photo agency of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with approximately 12 million images covering the themes Fine Arts, Culture and History." Try a Quicksearch for Personen or Porträts.

Bildarchiv zur Kunst und Architektur in Deutschland - German art and architecture database provides access to over 620,000 photographs. (In German, but using Alta Vista Translation will help with navigation. Click on Künstler to search by artist, Orte to search by place. Click on Suche, then, in Dokumente Aus select Marburg, Foto Marburg digitale diathek from the pull-down menu and click on the Galerie button at the bottom of the page. This will retrieve over 4,500 images.)

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.

Digital Imaging Resources - Harvard University Library Preservation

Digital Library Federation - Among the online publications is the DLF Newsletter

Digital Library Project - University of California, Berkeley. With Quick Access to the Collections.

Digital Media Lab - University of Virginia Library

Digital Scriptorium - "Consists of ca. 8,500 color images from the joined holdings of the Berkeley and Columbia-affiliated libraries, as well as the Union Theological Seminary (NY) and the De Bellis Collection (CA)." Sample images can be viewed by using the Display All Images for a Shelfmark. A search for the shelfmark Plimpton MS 034 retrieves images of a processional for female Franciscans.(Shelfmarks for Plimpton MS appear to range from 002 to 305.) To view descriptions of all manuscripts (warning: large file!) use Text Search Terms, leaving all options blank, and select Search.

Digitalisierte historische Kinderbücher - German children's book digitization project. Books are listed by title and author. Among the 392 primarily German titles in the collection are a few in English: A book of nonsense by Edward Lear, The Baby's Own Aesop with illustrations by Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, and A Day in a Child's Life by Kate Greenaway.

Dogon Niger Lobi - Over 1,000 outstanding photographs of Africa by Swiss photographer Huib Blom. Albums include Malian Architecture (175), Egypt (82), River Niger (145), Dogon (850), Lobi (125), and Miscellaneous (60). The photographs of architecture in Mali are very fine

Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection - Born in New York City in 1882, Ulman spent much of her time in Eastern Kentucky photographing individuals in Letcher, Perry, and Knott counties. The collection consists of 202 silver gelatin prints, all of which are viewable online. (Kentuckiana Digital Library.)

Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons - 388 political cartoons published by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) in the newspaper PM during the years 1941-43. From the Dr. Seuss Collection in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.

Drawn Sword: engravings and woodcuts from the MacBean Stuart and Jacobite Collection - Provides access to some 1,300 loose engravings and woodcuts from some 3,500 books and 1,000 pamphlets covering every aspect of the Jacobite rebellions. Searchable or browsable. [Visual Evidence: The Photographic presentation of Landscape and People, Special Collections and Archives Digital Projects, University of Aberdeen.)

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - 2,000 high resolution digital images of Celtic and other manuscripts from the collections of a number of University of Oxford Libraries.

Eastman's Originals Collection - Provides access to some 12,500 photographs of California in the 1940s and 1950s, the majority of which were taken for use as postcard images, by Jervie Henry Eastman and Mirl Simmons of Eastman Studios, Susanville, California. The photographs of redwoods, motels, and railroads are especially interesting. The collection is keyword searchable, or browsable by subject. A project of the Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Davis.

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian - "One of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture...Featured here are all of the published photogravure images including over 1500 illustrations bound in the text volumes, along with over 700 portfolio plates." (Library of Congress.)

1896: the Presidential Campaign Cartoons and Commentary - Rebecca Edwards and Sarah DeFeo have collected hundreds of political cartoons published in newspapers around the country which offer a window into political structures and issues, society, and culture in the United States, just before the turn of the last century.

Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana - "Important and out-of-print", this Smithsonian digitization project consists of 58 volumes and over 18,000 images.

George Eastman House - Located in Rochester, New York, the museum's Schankman Image Server offers access to its extensive still photography collection by photographer. Among the photographers are Eugene Atget (494 images), Julia Margaret Cameron (115 images), Andreas Feininger (130 images), Lewis W. Hine's Ellis Island series (170 images), William Henry Jackson, (448 images), Yousuf Karsh (58 images), Henri LeSecq (125 images) and Alfred Stieglitz (192 images). In Photography from 1839 to today, a George Eastman House Collection Guide (Published by Taschen 1999), is a Photographer Index with 727 images. Additionally, there is a Technology Collection with images of early cameras, a Pre-Cineman Project, a Civil War Collection and Stereo Views.

Gottscho-Schleisner Collection - Titled "Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955," this collection from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division "is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida."

Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body - "Features 1,247 engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries. (From Bartleby.com.)

Great Images in NASA (GRIN) - Over 1,000 images of significant historical interest.

Guide to Old Covered Bridges of Southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby areas - Images of covered bridges in the counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Philadelphia, and nearby New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware State.

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging - Published by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and Research Libraries Group (RLG) in July 2000 to serve the growing community of museums, archives, and research libraries that are turning to digital conversion to provide greater access to their visual resources and help preserve the original materials.

Gutenberg Digital - All 1282 pages of both volumes have been digitized.

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscripts Library - University of Georgia. Includes the Paris Music Hall Collection, the Natural History Collection, and WPA Projects in Georgia.

Hedda Morrison Photographs of China - Harvard-Yenching Library

Helios: Photography Online - Smithsonian American Art Museum. Has three online collections: American Photographs: The First Century , Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography and Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype.

Hensley Photo Library - Owned by the University of Chicago, this is a collection of almost 600 photographs taken in South Asia during World War II by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley. There is a Subject List. The collection has a rich assortment of photographs taken in Calcutta in 1943-44, with others from Madras, Kharagpur, Agra, and Burma. Among the photographs are Proud Father, Friendly Home Owner, Mukta, father, and brothers, Three Fellows, Taj Mahal, Akbar's tomb and Girl doing penance.(Part of the Digital South Asia Library.)

Ditto - Search engine for images.

Hill Musuem and Manuscript Library - Has more than 90,000 manuscripts on microfilm. The Vivarium Online Digital Collection, a database of resources owned by St. John's Abbey, St. John's University and the College of Saint Benedict, is searchable and browsable.

Historic American Sheet Music - Digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. A project of the Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. (See also Historic American Sheet Music at the Library of Congress.)

Historic Fruit Images - Images of fruit from U. P. Hedrick's Small Fruits of New York, published by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in 1925. It has become a classic reference for those working with cultivated varieties of berries

Historic USGS Maps of New England - University of New Hampshire Libraries online collection of USGS topographic maps includes complete geographical coverage of New England from the 1890s to 1950s.

Historical Anatomies on the Web - National Library of Medicine

Historical Images in Medicine - Duke University Medical Center Library collections "encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences."

Historical Maps Online - "Images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory." (Joint project of the University of Illinois and the University of Illinois Press.)

History of the American West, 1860-1920 - Over 30,000 photographs from the Denver Public Library Photography Collection, now part of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress. "Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy." Keyword searchable and indexed by subject and by name. 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. Highlights from the collection include Sitting Bull of the Custer Massacre (X-31384),Standing Holy, daughter of Sitting Bull, wearing jewelry (B-144), and Red Tomahawk, who killed Sitting Bull (X-31680). From the Western History Department/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library. See also the Colorado Digitalization Project which provides descriptions and links to other Digital Collections. A search for Ben Wittick (1845-1903) retrieves 68 images by the photographer of Zuni, Apache, Hopi and Navajo scenes, including the following examples from the 1880s: Approach to Pueblo Acoma, View in Pueblo Acoma, N.M., View in Apache camp, San Carlos River, Arizona, View in Pueblo Acoma, New Mexico, View in Pueblo Laguna, N.M., View in Pueblo Laguna, N.M., View in Pueblo Santo Domingo N. M., View in the aristocratic quarter of Oraibi Moqui, Woman of Zuni & water olla, Zuni maiden, daughter of Pa-lo-wa-ti-wa and Beginning of the Snake Dance, Hopi, Arizona.

Holsinger Studio Collection - Over 9,000 images of the Charlottesville area from 1900-1925. (Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)

Hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands. With index.

ibiblio - "Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. ibiblio is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. (Hosted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the site has been formerly known as Metalab and SunSite.)

Image Collections and Online Art - A section from the Mother of All Art History Links maintained by Patrick Young, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan .

Illustrated Garden: Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden - Consists of over 100 digitized volumes..."350,744 pages and 12,357 botanical illustrations currently [January 23, 2006] online."

Image Permanence Institute - Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Image Sites for Art and Architecture - Smathers Library, University of Florida

Image Finder - Locate images in eight digital libraries, including DL SunSITE, the Library of Congress, Library of Virginia, and the Smithsonian. (Berkeley Digital Library)

Imagelib & the Clearinghouse of Image Databases - University of Arizona Library

Image Providers Directory - "Unofficial, abbreviated Directory of Image Providers serving the academic community, primarily for the teaching of art, art history and other cultural disciplines."

Images Canada - Gateway to over 65,000 images from Canadian institutions. A search for Blackfoot, for example, retrieves over 1500 thumbnail images.

Images from the History of Medicine - "Provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine."

Images of African-Americans from the Nineteenth Century - "Artists, engravers and photographers managed to capture and preserve for posterity a variety of images of African Americans throughout the 19th century." (Digital Schomburg - New York Public Library Digital Library Collections)

Images of American Political History - Collection of over 500 public domain images is searchable and browsable by era of subject. (William J. Ball, Department of Political Science, the College of New Jersey.)

Images of Kansas City - Digital Local History Collections from Kansas City Public Library includes over 14,000 historical photographs, postcards and maps.

Images of the Southwest - University of Arizona Library

Imaging Projects - "Online directory of image databases housed on a gopher server at the University of Arizona Library"

Indiana Historical Society Digital Image Collection - Over 17,000 images International Cultural Property Protection - United States Department of State collects Recent Reports of Looting, Theft, Prosecution and Recovery on the World Wide Web. There is a Site Index and an Image Database of Restricted Objects which includes Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Peru, Mali and