Digital Image Resources

• Africa Photos from the California Academy of Sciences
• American Memory Collection from the National Digital Library, Library of Congress
• ArtServe- Searchable by subject, ArtServe includes images related to the history of art and architecture and are organized by country (from the Australian National University).
• Calisphere - More than 150,000 digitized items, including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts—reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
• Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection - 14,500 color images of everyday life in the middle of the twentieth century, from the Indiana University Digital Library Program.
• Clearinghouse of Image Databases - links to hundreds of digital image collections, University of Arizona.
• Catalogue of Internet Resources from BUBL - Search by Dewey class, keyword, subject, country, or type.
• Digital Archive of American Architecture at Boston College
• Great Building Collection from The Architecture Week. Includes thousands of images, integrated maps, and timelines, as well as bibliographies and web links to architecture designers.
• iPhoto Central - thousands of web pages for the photography collector, curator and historian.
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog - access to about 65% of the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images—about one million digital images.
• Life Magazine Cover Search - the past 70 years of Life magazine covers.
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery - access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
• Outdoor Travel Stock Photography by Jef Maion
• Photography Collections Online - “A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource for the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House,” International Museum of Photography and Film.
• Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography from the National Archives
• Selection of Image Collections from Harvard University
• Smithsonian Images - browse or search for image files from the Smithsonian collections, ranging from art, to air and space, science, nature, technology, history, and people and places.
• Smithsonian Photography Initiative - Image collections organized by museum and discipline, ranging from the National Museum of Natural History’s images documenting the sciences and man’s place in the world, to the National Air and Space Museum’s photographs of air and space craft since the 19th century, to the National Museum of African Art’s images of the art, environment, and peoples of Africa.
• University of Michigan Image Collection - arranged by subject group.