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- 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
The Digital Contest Library at the University of Minnesota, College of Design and Liberal Arts has added over 400 images of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. The images include black and white photographs, architectural drawings, landscape architecture, and paintings from a variety of artists including Richard Morris Hunt, Frederick Law Olmstead, and Charles Atwood. - Ad*Access
Duke University Libraries has created Ad*Access, a growing collection now holding over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements from the first half of the twentieth century. Covering five different product categories, Ad*Access contians primary resources documenting transportation, hygiene, radio, and television advertising as well as World War II propaganda. - Aga Khan Visual Archive
MIT's Aga Khan Visual Archive hosts over 120,000 digital images visualizing Islamic art and architecture as well as urban design practices. This repository includes images captured over a 30 year period to document both historic and contemporary sites and is accessible to academic and non-academic users through the MIT Libraries Dome, a Web portal that provides access to some of the university's archival collections. - American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology
The AMNH Division of Anthropology has collected over 500,000 objects representing the peoples of Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas. Over 170,000 of the 500,000 objects have been digitally imaged and can be accessed through this website. - Arcade: New York Art Resource Consortium
Arcade combines material and cultural history documents from the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum, making 800,000 visual and textual records available for public use. - Arcaid
A comprehensive and commercial image resource for architecture, interiors, and design. - Architectural History 102: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
The University of Virginia Libraries hosts Architectural History 102, a visual resource collection focusing on Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Images included create social and historical context, and reveal evolving architectural forms. - Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
The Library of Congress American Memory site hosts over 29,000 images architecture and interior design created in the twentieth century. The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection concentrates on sites in the northeastern United States focusing on architectural subjects that include interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Each image is accompanied by detailed metadata as well as direction for legal use. - Art Babble
Art Babble is a unique tool for accessing video resources regarding contemporary and modern art. Created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Art Babble “is a destination for art content online.” Art Babble incorporates videos that include interviews with artists and museum curators, and popular art programming. PBS, LACMA, MOMA, the New York Public Library, SFMOMA, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among contributing partners. - Art Institute of Chicago Architecture Collections
Access to over 500 digital images, including architectural drawings and fragments, "System of Architectural Ornament" by Louis Sullivan, and the Bertrand Goldberg Archives. - Art of the Poster 1880-1918
Lawrence University, in collaboration with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, presents poster images from the late nineteenth century in its Digital Library Collection. Graphic designers and illustrators like Alphonse Mucha, Jules Cheret, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are represented throughout the collection. In addition, other artists from art periods like Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession are also prominent within this digital repository of images. - Artchive
Mark Harden's Artchive includes critical resources (written by E.H. Gombrich, Meyer Shapiro, etc.), author biographies, gallery commentary and images of art and sculpture. - Artists' Books
This an online collection holds approximately 1,000 books including the most significant 20th century and contemporary artists’ books, among them livre d’artiste, avant-garde, conceptual, and contemporary works. Individual web pages for sixteen of the most significant book works contain a gallery of images to navigate the entire work, a brief biography on the artist, a description of the book and the books colophon. - Artscope
SFMOMA designed this visual browsing tool for searching their collection - ARTstor
Digital library with approximately 750,000 images of art, architecture, and archeology. Subscription is available to UT affiliates with an EID. - Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
Bildindex consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. This includes a range of image types--drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, etc. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts special collections and continues to sponsor further digitization projects. - Blanton Museum of Art Online Collections
The Blanton Museum of Art's expansive online database features high-resolution images and detailed information for over 17,000 artworks searchable by keyword, artist name or nationality, period or exhibition. - Bridgmen Education
Bridgeman Education provides access to over 300,000 images of every civilization from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica and every period from Prehistory to the present across continents and traditions. Collection categories include fine arts, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology and ethnography, history, science and medicine, decorative arts and artifacts. A subscription is required to use the site, though students may contact the institution for individual licensing. - Bridgmen: Art Culture History
With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman Art Library is a comprehensive source for fine art and historical images. - British Museums Collection Database
Currently includes objects from Africa; the Americas; central, east, south and southeast Asia, including the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese ceramics; ancient Egypt and Sudan; Europe; ancient Greece and Rome; the Middle East; Oceania; prehistory; the Museum’s collection of two-dimensional art. - Brown University Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
This collection hosted by Brown University chronicles the events surrounding the 1923 Kanto Earthquake. Featuring some of the earliest photographs of the destruction taken by Americans, the collection consisting of over 100 original photographs taken in Yokohama, Kyoto, Shanghai, and Hawaii, as well as many photographs purchased in Japan that document the devastation. Additional items include newspaper clippings, telegrams, postcards, and travel keepsakes, including ship passenger lists, itineraries, programs and menus. - CAEA - Digital Scrolling Paintings Project
The University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia is creating a database of Chinese handscroll paintings in a scrolling digital format. The Digital Scrolling Paintings Project aims to create a database that at once provides access to these rarely displayed artifacts while enabling a full investigation of the images and ideograms rendered. - CAMIO
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online visual resource collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. - Carlo Scarpa Archive Project
The Carlo Scarpa Archive project endeavors to preserve the architecture of and the process of practicing architecture employed by Scarpa throughout his career. The project website includes the digitized project drawings for the Museo di Castelvecchio, an interactive floorplan contextualizing these working drawings, and a bibliography chronicling the use of these drawings. As time passes, the archive will digitize drawings and photography for other Scarpa projects. - Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection presents photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston through the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. The collection, primarily take in the 1930s, is comprised of over 7,000 images from rural and urban areas of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Johnston's own interest in both vernacular and high style structures helped her to compose vivid portrayals of both interiors and exteriors of various typological structures including mills, churches and plantation houses. Through a joint effort with ARTstor, the Library of Congress was able to digitize all of Johnston's original negatives to develop this online resource. - Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection presents photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston through the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. The collection, primarily take in the 1930s, is comprised of over 7,000 images from rural and urban areas of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Johnston's own interest in both vernacular and high style structures helped her to compose vivid portrayals of both interiors and exteriors of various typological structures including mills, churches and plantation houses. Through a joint effort with ARTstor, the Library of Congress was able to digitize all of Johnston's original negatives to develop this online resource. - CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum
CGFA is a virtual art museum featuring images of European and American art from the 1400s forward. The site is organized by artist name, but can also be navigated chronologically. - Chester Beatty Library Image Gallery
Divided into three major exhibit categories, the Chester Beatty Library Image Gallery combines images of Islamic, East Asian and Western art. Textiles, illuminated manuscripts and painting dominate the collection. - Chronicling America
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities have partnered to create Chronicling America, a newspaper database that allows you to view newspaper pages from 10 different states and dating from 1880-1910. Chronicling America also includes a search directory with access to information about newspapers collected from as early as 1690. - CollectiveAccess
CollectiveAccess is a configurable cataloging tool and web-based application for museums, archives and digital collections. The programming requires little to no custom programming to support a variety of metadata standards and supports multilingual cataloging facilities. CollectiveAccess can also handle a long list of digital media formats including images, video, audio and document formats. Additionally, a variety of external data sources and services can be accessed for cataloging and data display within CollectiveAccess. The Library of Congress and Getty Art and Architecture are just a few of the external sources available to users. - Corbis Images
Corbis Images is a stockphotgraphy site hosting millions of royalty-free and rights-managed images. Corbis' search mechanism allows the user to generate results based on camera angle, point-of-view, and resolution. Corbis also hosts a number of special collections. - Cornell University: Knight Visual Resources Facility
The Knight Visual Resources Facility currently houses about 430,000 slides which provide instructional and research support for the academic programs of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and the History of Art Department. - Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture Project
The Council of Independent Colleges has developed the Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP), a database that organizes university sites by type, style, designer, function and time period. This database currently includes information for campus master plans, buildings and landscapes at nearly 400 institutions of higher learning. - designinform
designinform links three databases to provide access to over 70,000 abstract and index records from art and design journals published during the twentieth century. - Digital Collections at The Center for Research Libraries
Taken from the collection of journalist Edward Hunter, this database provides access to mass education pamphlets circulated in Hong Kong and Mainland China between the years 1947 and 1954. - Digital Images Collection Wiki
The Digital Images Collection Wiki is an extensive resource for links to other image resource groups that offer access to free collections for study and research. These include visual resources collections from universities, flickr groups etc. - Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
The University of California, Berkeley has created the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) as "a global consortium of people who share the vision of creating a distributed virtual library of cultural information with a time and place interface." ECAI uses the concepts of time and space to organize and analyze visual data as well as integrate it into a broader network of cultural phenomena. - Fotolia
Fotolia is a royalty-free stock photography site with over 7.25 million photos and illustrations and almost 0.5 million vectors. - Frick Collection Digital Archive
The Frick Digital Image Archive now has over 15,000 photographs taken by staff photographers recording photographs of art work from 1922 to 1967 through the United States. The negatives from these photography expeditions were digitized and made available online through the funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Henry Luce Foundation. The NEH has designated the project as part of its "We the People" campaign to encourage the teaching and understanding of American history and culture. - German History in Documents and Images
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history in ten sections beginning with the early modern period and moving into the present. Each section includes an introduction to key historical developments during the period as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and relevant maps. All of the materials can be accessed through keyword and author searches. Advanced options also allow searches to be limited and refined. - Hargrett Historical Maps Database
The University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library created a database that provides access to historical maps documenting sites around the globe from as early as 1500. - Harvard Graduate School of Design: Francis Loeb Library Visual Resources
The Visual Resources Department collects non-print materials for the Frances Loeb Library that support the curricula of the Graduate School of Design, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning & design. Their collections include digital images, 35mm slides, videos/DVDs, CD-ROMs, maps & plans, and photographs. - Harvard University Library Visual Information Access
VIA (Visual Information Access) is a growing online union catalog documenting the arts, material culture, and social history. VIA contains descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. Participating repositories include archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University. New material is added to VIA daily. - Herbet Cole Archives on ARTstor
More than 940 images featuring African art, architecture and culture photographed by art historian Herbert Cole is now available on ARTstor. The images are from the Herbert Cole archives at the University of California, Santa Barbara. - Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture
The University of Michigan has created a digital project that focuses on historic illustrations that were originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These engravings, line drawings, and plans reflect new technologies and aesthetic standards of their time. - ICAA Documents: 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art
The International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has developed the Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive to provide access to materials that document the development of Latin American and Latino art. This ongoing project currently includes primary sources and critical documents that support research on art in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Latino USA. - ICCROM Image Collection
The International Centre for the Study and Restoration of Cultural Property has compiled over 200,000 images of historic architecture, plans and drawings as well as conservation missions undertaken by ICCROM's staff. - IDEAS, Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies
Unifies digitizing efforts already in progress at various campuses into a shared searchable database of images, open to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. - Idée Labs
Idée Labs has created image search tools including the Multicolour Search Lab that utilizes up to ten different colors to access images in both Alamy and Flickr. Two additional search tools access images in Alamy including the tag-based Visual Search Lab, and image-based BYO Image Search Lab. - Inmagine
Inmagine is a royalty-free stock photography site with over 3.5 million images from over 100 best-selling collections. - International Dunhuang Project
The Internation Dunhuang Project is a consortium of academic institutions from all over the world that hosts over 270,000 images of paintings, textiles, and manuscripts that document Eastern silk road culture. - Librarian in Black
The Librarian in Black blog is dedicated to helping others find information on library web and digital services. Librarian in Black features other blogs, library databases, eBooks, eMusic, eVideo, podcasting and videocasting; information on filtering (internet filtering, studies, tests), Flickr and digital imaging, and information architecture; and search techniques and tools. - MIT: Rotch Visual Library Collections
MIT visual collections online. - Modern Homes Survey - New Canaan
The Philip Johnson Glass House Historical Trust is creating a narrative survey of the 91 existing modern homes in New Canaan to provide a “criteria of significance” for their future preservation. The Trust also hopes to expand the online database to other clusters of modern homes. - Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal
The Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal provides access to over 100,000 high-resolution historical photographs highlighting construction, architecture and local culture. - National Gallery of Art Images
The National Gallery of Art recently launched NGA Images a new image resource featuring the gallery's extensive collection in digitized form. Alongside its new platform, NGA announces an open access policy that allows users to search, browse, share, and download from its repository of over 20,000 images. - New York City Department of Records Municipal Archive Online Gallery
New York City Department of Records Municipal Archive Online Gallery holds over 870,000 images from 30 different historical collections comprising 160 years of New York City history. Images can be searched and stored on a designated workspace for use in research and presentations. Motion picture and sound recordings are also available. - NYU: Visual Resources Department at the Institute of Fine Arts
The collections are comprised of approximately 2.5 million images. Included are approximately 750,000 black and white photographs, 250,000 lantern slides (and the negatives from which they were made), 500,000 35mm slides, and a variety of other archival materials covering the full range of the pedagogy of art history. The collections are divided into the Slide Library, the Photographic Archives, off-site holdings, and on-line collections and resources. - Oregon State Photo Archives on Flickr Commons
Oregon State University is the first university to release images from its photo archives to Flickr Commons. Photo sets focus on natural resources, environmental history, forestry, and agriculture, and will be supplemented over time. - Penn: Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection
The Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection, offers an expanding information base of over 100,000 digital images and 500,000 slides of works of art and architecture from prehistory to the modern age. Images are available in their online catalogue, and collection content includes drawing, painting, sculpture, prints, photography, manuscripts, maps, ceramics, furniture, architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, contemporary art and more. - Photomuse
Developed through an alliance between George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the International Center of Photography (ICP), Photomuse provides a comprehesive and illustrated chronology of the history of photography accompanied by a number of exhibits that explore various geographical, political, stylistic, and urban themes in both film and photography. - Project for Public Spaces Image Collection
PPS maintains an image collection of markets, parks, buildings, transportation, and people interacting with their environment. - Prometheus
Prometheus is a digital image archive that highlights the art and cultural sciences, gathering over 800,000 images from as many as 64 institutional databases. The Website’s interface allows for storing, organizing and presenting your own curated selections while providing comprehensive copyright and sourcing information with each entry. - Rice University: Art History Visual Resources Center
Containing approximately 350,000 35mm slides of works of art and visual culture from prehistoric to contemporary times, the VRC is the primary location for instruction and research using art images for Rice University. - ROM Images
The Royal Ontario Museum's online image collection, ROM, incorporates images of the built environment, world cultures and natural history from its collection. Images located on ROM can be used privately and licensing can be facilitated for all other uses. - Scholars Resource
Scholars Resource hosts a number of image collections from contributors including Archivision, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The combined collection supports art historical curriculum in a number of areas including Prehistoric, Western, Islamic and Levantine, African, Asian, and Oceanic art. - September 11 Memorial & Museum: Make History
Collected through the September 11 Memorial & Museum, this media-timeline features photographs and videos taken by citizens during and in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. - SIRIS Image Gallery: Ernst Herzfeld Papers
The Smithsonian plans on adding the work of Ernst Herzfeld to their online resources collection. Herzfeld, a leading scholar in Iranian studies, documented archaeological studies in many exotic places, including Persepolis, Aleppo, and Paikuli. Materials presented online include his personal notebooks, drawings, and sketchbooks. - Smith College: Imaging Center and Visual Communication Resource Center
With approximately 280,000 slides, this collection covers art, architecture, and material culture for a wide geographic and cultural range, including Asian, Prehistoric, Egyptian, Pre-Columbian, African Ancient Mediterranean, Greek and Roman, Islamic, European, American, and Native American. - St. Peter's Basilica: Floorplan
This interactive floorplan, indicates the uses of each available space within the Vatican complex. The floorplan employs a system of letters and numbers to identify various sculptural and artistic elements in addition to locating elements of specific architectural significance including grottoes, the facade, the piazza, etc. Each letter and number links to an additional page that includes visual and textual information about the site indicated. - TARO: Texas Archival Resources Online
TARO makes descriptions of the rich archival, manuscript, and museum collections in repositories across the state available to the public. The site consists of the collection descriptions or "finding aids" that archives, libraries, and museums create to assist users in locating information in their collections. - Tate Collection Online Subject Search
The Tate Collection Online Subject Search provides access to its online information pages for over 66,000 works of art by 3,075 artists. Each page provides important metadata about the object sometimes including a contextualizing description. The subject search function organizes these objects into categories including architecture, objects, history, people, abstraction, places, emotions, concepts, and ideas, religion and belief, and more. - Texas Archive of the Moving Image
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a non-profit organization working to collect film and video records of Texas history. TAMI focuses on collecting items about the state and its citizens, as well as those films shot by citizens. The TAMI Video Library currently holds commercial, educational, home-produced, military and Hollywood footage available through the Video Library main page. - Texas Bird's-Eye Views
This collection at the Amon Carter Museum contains over 60 bird's eye views from the 19th and 20th centuries of 49 cities in Texas. - The Archigram Archival Project
The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. - The Cold War Museum
A respository for virtual exhibitions examining the period of the Cold War, the Cold War Museum has created a number of photographic, documentary and graphic exhibits organized by themes, medium or timeline. This virtual museum aims to capture a larger visual history of the Cold War contextualizing these images through comparison and juxtaposition with written testimony and other primary textual resources. - The Empire That Was Russia
The Empire That Was Russia is a searchable database of architecture, ethnic culture, transportation and other images focusing on contemporary Russian life taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. Through the digichromatography color rendering process, Prokudin-Gorskii's black and white and sepia toned images have been converted into color. - The Huntington Photographic Archive of Asian Art
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Asian Art includes over 30,000 black and white images of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma) Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand captured over a 35 year time span. These photographs highlight the art, architectural and cultural history of these Asian cultures, and are accompanied by descriptive texts to facilitate use in the class room. - The Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University
Though difficult at times to navigate, this Ohara Institute digital collection includes 2700 posters from before 1945 and 1400 posters form after the war integrating a number of themes key to understanding the socialization of an increasingly industrial and urban culture governed by a collective ideology. - The State Hermitage Museum Digital Collection
The State Hermitage Museum Digital Collection provides access to high-resolution images of artwork, furniture, maps, archaeological artifacts, textiles, and more. The collection has a general search tool but can also be navigated by browsing geographically organized galleries categorized by field (Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, Applied Arts, Textiles, etc.). - The Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Library has assembled an eclectic library of images that range from architectural photographs and representations to scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of cancer cells and bacteria. The Wellcome Library’s image collection is a useful resource for contextualizing architectural history, examining biological forms to create unique designs, and enhancing visual perspectives of the broader sphere of human biological, sociological, historical, and anthropological relations. - Turkish Cultural Foundation Image Archive
The Turkish Cultural Foundation Image Archive is a digitalized slide repository documenting Turkish art and culture as it has been exhibited in museums and other cultural locations around the world since 1955. The archive's graduate search tool allows the user to browse images by location and artifact type. - UCR California Museum of Photography Collection Search
The California Museum of Photography explores photographic media through exhibition, collection, publication, and the web to examine the history of photography and showcase current practice in photography and related media. The museum's online search tool allows the browser to search through nearly 55,000 records including images of industry, science and nature, portraits, photographic equipment, and much more. - University of California, Berkeley: S.P.I.R.O.
The online catalog & image database of the Architecture Visual Resources Library at the University of California, Berkeley. - University of Houston Digital Library: Kenneth Franzheim Collection
The University of Houston Digital Library Kenneth Franzheim Collection makes the Houston architect's photographs, architectural drawings and models available to researchers outside the University of Houston community. - University of Oregon: Visual Resources Collection
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) of the Architecture and Allied Arts Library supports the teaching needs of the University of Oregon with images of art and architectural content. The slide collection was organized in the 1940s and now includes approximately 340,000 cataloged slides. - University of Texas at Austin: College of Fine Arts Visual Resources Collection
The Visual Resources Collection is a teaching resources unit for faculty and students of the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. The Collection currently numbers approximately 550,000 35mm slides, and its primary strength is in art of the western world (pre-historic through modern). There are also significant holdings in eastern traditions and Pre-Columbian art and architecture. - University of Texas at Austin: School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Image Catalog
Links to over 65,000 digital images and 144,000 catalog records in the School of Architecture's Visual Resources Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. - USGS Photography Library
The library consists of photographs taken during geologic studies of the United States and its territories from 1868 to the present. - VADS
Comprised of over 100,000 images, Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) image database is an online resource for the visual arts. - VideoSurf Beta
VideoSurf is a metasearch for video that looks at videos on Hulu, CNN, ESPN, Comedy Central, and MetaCafe. The site offers a number of search tools including great sorting options, faceted searching, results embedding, permalinks, a Save Search/Alert feature, and a lot more. - Virtual Museum of Canada
The Virtual Museum of Canada combines a number of collections from Canadian museums into an interactive and easily accessible format. With over 785,000 images in its Image Gallery, the VMC includes visual material ranging from contemporary paintings and photographs to World War I era helmets, chandeliers, textiles, and more. - VRA Intellectual Property Rights News blog
The VRA Intellectual Property Rights News blog is a monthly blog that "[studies and monitors] intellectual property and copyright issues; and [develops and promotes] the Association’s position on intellectual property rights issues.” - WestLicht
The WestLicht, the center of photography in Vienna, is an initiative striving to widen the importance of photography and it's development in Austria. WestLicht aims to show the relationship between equipment and the art of photography. The center holds a permanent collection of over 40,000 objects of various photographic techniques, ranging from plate photographs and glass transparencies to a wide variety of printing processes. The WestLicht exhibited numerous shows that represent a variety of photography projects including the Polaroid [Im]Possible Project, David Douglas Duncan's PICASSO, and Kaiserpanorama, a full-scale art installation apparatus for the presentation of large scale stereo images. - World Digital Library (WDL)
The World Digital Library hosts a collections of images, films, and sound recordings from around the world. Contributors predominantly include American, European, and Middle Eastern collections, but efforts are being made to engage African countries in the project. As a repository for cultural artifacts, WDL offers unparalleled access to these resources and promotes propitious cross-cultural exchange. - WorldImages
The California State University WorldImage database organizes 75,000 images into portfolios highlighting a wide range of content from around the globe including images of cities and building technology, religious and cultural art and artifacts, architecture, material culture, and more. In addition WorldImages hosts a few special collections including faculty contributions, special exhibits and the Sourisseau Academy Clark B. Waterhouse Collection. - Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
The Yale University Art Gallery's eCatalogue allows internet users to search a collection of over 185,000 objects which includes over 2000 years of painting, sculpture, furniture and other interior/industrial design objects from all over the world. - Yale University: Visual Resources Collection
The Yale University Visual Resources Collection is comprised of approximately 320,000 slides (both lantern and 35mm) and 187,000 mounted photographs.
