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7,000 U.S. & Canadian printed ads from 1911-1955.
Scholarly resources for study of material and visual culture in Islamic societies. Thousands of sites, publications, images and more focusing on architecture, urbanism, landscape design, visual culture related to the Muslim world.
Over 2 million objects
15,000+ primary sources, collaboration of CT libraries & museums focusing on historical artifacts including photographs, maps, broadsides, oral histories & manuscripts. Documents events, people & places playing a role in CT & American social, business, political, educational, cultural & civic life.
Historical maps of the world, including atlases, globes, maritime charts, local maps, children's and manuscript maps.
Europe's cultural collections
Public Photography Archives
Getty gateway for browsing and searching collections. Use link at lower right to access "Open Content Images." This is a new Getty initiative that allows downloading of high resolution images in jpg file format.
Gateway to 9 million items organized into 100 thematic collections from Library of Congress resources documenting U.S. history & culture. Formats include manuscripts, prints, photos, posters, maps, sound recordings, film, books, pamphlets, sheet music.
1 million images from extensive Library of Congress print & photograph collections documenting U.S. history and culture. Examples: Farm Security Administration photos, WPA prints, Civil War glass negatives, cartoons, Ansel Adams photos of Japanese-American internment, baseball cards, much more.
Millions of Life magazine images hosted by Google, from 1700's-present. Images not larger than 600 pixels on longest side.
Museum collections, plus Timeline of Art History containing useful art historical information.
Includes 20,000+ open access digital images up to 3000 pixels for free download & use.
11,000 portrait paintings, sculptures & drawings, plus 220,000 original photographs.
Free & open access to 800,000+ images digitized from NYPB collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs & more.
Links to online collections of all Smithsonian museums including Natural History Museum, American History Museum, National Museum of the American Indian, African Art Museum, American Art Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, Freer & Sackler Gallery, Hirshhorn, National Portrait Gallery.
Internationally recognized, provides access to California State Univ. IMAGE Project. Included by Library of Congress in its historic collection of Internet materials. 100,000 images with embedded metadata in 900 portfolios, coverage global, all areas of visual imagery. QuickSearch, Advanced, or Browse.
140,000 art & design images from the UK
80,000 photographs, can be searched by terms such as "medicine" or "technology"
600 digitized colored lantern slides from Watkinson Library's Enders Ornithology Collection
USDA images: Trees, Insects, Diseases, Silviculture, Urban Forestry, Wildlife, and more
Hubble Telescope images
Image databases of five federal agencies: NIX NASA Image Exchange, NOAA Photo Library, USDA Plant Image Gallery, USGS Multimedia Gallery and USGS-NBII Life.
Everything about birds
Complete double elephant folio set of Audubon’s Birds of America, accompanied by his Ornithological Biography.
Image databases from 17 U.S. government institutes or libraries
70,000 images related to the history of medicine
Photographs, illustrations, multimedia