Online Image Resources

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Art

American Memory (Library of Congress) 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html 
The Library of Congress site offers more than 9 million images related to the history and culture of the United States. 

AP Images (UCB only) 
http://uclibs.org/PID/6955 
Large collection of over 4.6 million Associated Press images dating back to 1826. Also contains graphics, audio files, news stories, and headlines. 

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) 
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/aict?g=art-ic;page=index
Public domain images for the educational community. Collection emphasis is on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture 

Artcyclopedia 
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html 
Central search portal for searching for artworks and linking out to the works on museum collection websites. Search by artist name, medium, subject or nationality. 

ARTstor (UCB only) 
http://www.artstor.org 
ARTstor is a comprehensive database of over a million images of art and architecture. The collection spans all mediums, cultures, and time periods. 

Art.sy Education
http://artsy.net/feature/artsy-education
Artsy is a venue for discovering, collecting, and selling artwork from Medieval to contemporary, with an emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries. Over 25,000 downloadable images for use without restriction.

Beazley Archive
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm
The world's largest collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery. Greek vases are indexed by painter, vase shape, location, and subject.

Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO) 
http://camio.oclc.org/ 
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is an online collection of images of artworks from leading institutions around the world. Rights are cleared for educational use.

Claros
http://explore.clarosnet.org/XDB/ASP/clarosHome/index.html
Built on the art of ancient Greece and Rome, CLAROS is an international research collaboration, using the latest Information and Communication Technologies to enable simultaneous searching of major collections in university research institutes and museums. Collections include the Beazley Archive, the British School at Athens, the Ashmolean Museum, the National Archaeological Museum at Athens, among others.

Columbia University 360-degree panoramas
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/mc/projects/360.html
360-degree panoramas of many architectural sites, including: Chateau du Chambord; Pazzi Chapel, Rome; Paris Opera; Kariye Camii; and Shehzade Mosque, among others.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
http://dp.la/
Millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums across America.

Enluminures 
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/documentation/enlumine/fr/ 
Over a hundred thousand images from French manuscript illumination. Images are from over 5,000 manuscripts held in French libraries. 

Europeana
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
A search engine for the digitized collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe.

Flickr Commons 
http://www.flickr.com/commons/ 
Various cultural institutions have contributed content to the Flickr online photo management system. Contributors include: The Library of Congress; The Smithsonian; George Eastman House; Brooklyn Museum; Getty Research Institute; New York Public Library, and dozens more. Images in Flickr Commons have "no known copyright restrictions". 

George Eastman Museum | Online Collections
https://www.eastman.org/collections-online
Explore the George Eastman Museum's collections online. More than a quarter of a million objects from the photography, technology, and George Eastman Legacy collections are now searchable, and more of the museum's vast holdings will be added on an ongoing basis.

Google Art Project 
http://www.googleartproject.com/ 
Extremely high resolution images from 250 different institutions in over 40 countries. Contributors include: Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence and many more. Downloads are not available, but images can be used from within the site. The user can also create personal galleries from within the site. For information on how to use the Google Image Project site, see their instructional YouTube video: http://youtu.be/qVpqTd2ndYY 

Google Images 
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en 
Google search engine specifically for images. Images may be low resolution, and may not contain metadata or source information. 

Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
More than 1.2 million digital images. The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.   

New York Public Library Digital Collections
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
Almost a million items digitized from the NYPL collections.

Online Archive of California 
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ 
Resource of digital images from museums, libraries, and archives across California. Created in partnership with the California Digital Library. 

Oxford Art Online (UCB only) 
http://www.oxfordartonline.com/public/ 
Central portal for multiple art and image resources, including: Grove Art Online; The Oxford Companion to Western Art; Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. 

Prometheus Database (UCB only)
http://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/en/
Prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently connects 87 databases with over a million images from institutes, research facilities and museums on a common user interface. It is free for all UC Berkeley History of Art faculty, staff, and students. Register for an account on the Prometheus website and select the 'UC Berkeley' institution subscription option. You will then have to email one of the admins listed on the website in order to activate your account.

Wikimedia Commons 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 
Wikimedia Commons is a media repository with almost 13 million image, audio, and video files. All files are in the public domain and are freely available for educational use. The files are contributed by the general public, using the same Wiki-technology as Wikipedia. 

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Architecture

ARCHNET
http://archnet.org/
An open access library for teaching and learning about the built environment of Muslim societies.

Arounder
http://www.arounder.com/
Leader in virtual reality photography from around the world. More than 10,000 panoramic images by professional photographers.

ARTstor (UCB only)
http://www.artstor.org 
ARTstor is a comprehensive database of over a million images of art and architecture. The collection spans all mediums, cultures, and time periods.

Built Works Registry
http://builtworksregistry.org/
The goal of BWR is to create and develop a freely available registry of architectural works and the built environment. The Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, Artstor and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) are the principal collaborators for this project.

Cities and Buildings Database
http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/
The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.

Columbia University 360-degree panoramas
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/mc/projects/360.html
360-degree panoramas of many architectural sites, including: Chateau du Chambord; Pazzi Chapel, Rome; Paris Opera; Kariye Camii; and Shehzade Mosque, among others.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
http://dp.la/
Millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums across America.

Europeana
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
A search engine for the digitized collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe.

Flickr Commons & Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/commons/ 
https://www.flickr.com/
Various cultural institutions have contributed content to the Flickr online photo management system. Contributors include: The Library of Congress; The Smithsonian; George Eastman House; Brooklyn Museum; Getty Research Institute; New York Public Library, and dozens more. Images in Flickr Commons have "no known copyright restrictions".

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Performing Arts

19th Century Actors and Theater Photographs http://content.lib.washington.edu/19thcenturyactorsweb/index.html
The database consists of over 600 photographs including cartes-de-visite and cabinet card studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.

ARTstor (UCB only) 
http://www.artstor.org 
ARTstor is a comprehensive database of over a million images of art and architecture. The collection spans all mediums, cultures, and time periods.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
http://dp.la/
Millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums across America.

Europeana
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
A search engine for the digitized collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe.

GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database)
http://www.glopad.org/pi/index.php
Records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world.

Library of Congress, Federal Theatre Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html
This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images).

Library of Congress, Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. The PAE provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. 

New York Public Library, Vandamm Theatrical Photographs, 1900-1957
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/vandamm-theatrical-photographs-1900-1957
The Vandamm archive documents almost comprehensively three decades of theatrical history in New York.

Ringling Collection
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ringling
The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses.

UT Austin, Harry Ransom Center, Performing Arts Collection
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/performingarts/
This research collection documents the history of theater, dance, costume and scenic design, opera, and popular entertainments such as vaudeville, the circus, pantomime, magic, puppetry, and minstrel shows. The primary emphasis is on British and American theater from the eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.

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Film/Media

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
http://dp.la/
Millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums across America. Includes images, text, audio, and moving images.

F.I.L.M. Archives, Inc.
http://www.filmarchivesonline.com/
Constantly growing library includes educational, government and industrial films; newsreels (from early 20th century through the early 1970s); silent comedies; television programs and commercials; theatrical shorts; exclusive collections of martial arts and drive-in horror movies; breathtaking travel and beauty footage shot by leading cinematographers, major news events including tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, and natural disasters, Mideast wars, political rallies and protests, economic recession and recovery, technology breakthroughs, and everyday activities.

Film Archives Online
http://www.filmarchives-online.eu/
filmarchives online provides easy and free access to catalog information of film archives from all over Europe.

Internet Archive Film Archive
https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms
Watch full-length feature films, classic shorts, world culture documentaries, World War II propaganda, movie trailers, and films. Many of these videos are available for free download.

Internet Archive Film Noir
https://archive.org/details/Film_Noir
Expressionistic crime dramas of the 40s and 50s: tough cops and private eyes, femme fatales, mean city streets and deserted backroads, bags of loot and dirty double-crossers.

Internet Archive Moving Image Archive
https://archive.org/details/movies
This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

Internet Archive Prelinger Archives
https://archive.org/details/prelinger
View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.

Internet Archive Silent Films
https://archive.org/details/silent_films
A collection of feature or short silent films uploaded by archive users.

Library of Congress, National Film Preservation Board
http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/resources/public-research-centers-and-archives/
A comprehensive listing of Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers from around the world.

UCLA Film & Television Archive
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/
With over 300,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, the UCLA Film & Television Archive is the world's largest university-held collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming.

Wikimedia Commons 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 
Wikimedia Commons is a media repository with almost 13 million image, audio, and video files. All files are in the public domain and are freely available for educational use. The files are contributed by the general public, using the same Wiki-technology as Wikipedia.

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Website images permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org 
Chinese, Tikshna-Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Ming dynasty(1368-1644), Gilt bronze
Suzuki Kiitsu, Morning Glories (detail), 19th C., Japanese, Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, & gold on gilded paper
Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid (detail), 16th C., Italian, Oil on canvas 
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, American, Utah, mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water 
Greek, Carnelian scaraboid, early 5th century B.C., Carnelian, gold
French Medieval from Limoges, Chasse of Champagnat, ca. 1150, Copper, engraved and gilt; champlevé enamel
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (detail), 1787, French, Oil on canvas