The William Blake ArchiveA hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Getty. Eventually the archive will contain at
least one copy of each of Blake's works in illuminated printing and multiple copies of most and include approximately 3000 digital images.
Image DirectoryArt information and images from museums and collections around the world
Ditto.comDitto.com provides a visual mechanism to search the web using pictures instead of text. Users are directed to the originating web site on which the pictures are located. A search on "temples" found 289 images.
LUCI: Library of UC ImagesLUCI is a joint campus project, initially funded by IAPIF, uniting resources from several UC visual collections (this phase of the database incorporates images from the classical Greek and Roman periods only).
San Diego Historical Society Photo ArchiveThe Booth Historical Photograph Archives of the San Diego Historical Society contains over two million images. These images show San Diego County from the mountains and desert to downtown and the beaches. Dating back to the 1860s, the collection tracks the expansion of the West, the development of the San Diego area, the contributions of various ethnic groups, the geographical formations of the region and the connections between San Diego and Baja California.
Beazley ArchiveThe Beazley Archive is a research unit of the University of Oxford's Faculty of Literae Humaniores. The original archive of Sir John Beazley (1885-1970), acquired by the University in the 1960's, was installed in the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum in 1970. In 1979 Information Technology projects began with the Pottery Database of Athenian figure-decorated vases of the 7th-4th centuries BC. Other IT projects include the Classical Gem and Finger-ring Impressions which should be available in 2000.
The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map CollectionThis site from the University of Texas at Austin contains an extensive collection of electronic maps
Ad*Access ProjectAn image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covers five categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II.
Public Image Collection from UMIThis site contains 11,291 images from the UM Museum of Art, 566 digital images
of Egyptian amulets from the Kelsey Mus em of Archaeology and images of Borobudur from UM Visual Resources collections.
National Archives and Records AdministrationNAIL is a searchable database that contains information about a wide variety of NARA's holdings across the country. You can use NAIL to search descriptions for key words or topics, and then to retrieve digital copies of selected textual documents, photographs, maps, and sound recordings.
WebMuseumThe ever-expanding WebMuseum network is now welcoming
200,000 visitors every week, delivering over 10 million documents.
California Heritage CollectionThe California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Art Museum Network
The official website of the world's leading art museums.
Electronic Library of Colorado Architecture, Landscape, and Planning
Designed for
students at all levels, for the public, and for members of the professions
of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning. It was created
by faculty members, staff members, and students of the University
of Colorado at Denver's College of Architecture and Planning.
La grotte de Lascaux
The Berkeley Digital Library collection includes a large number
of digitized images from many different sources. As of Jan 1999,
over 70,000 images are available for online searching.
WWW Virtual Library museums pages
The Great Buildings Collection
American Memory
Pictures of Record
Masters of Photography
Hulton Getty Picture Collection
Cities and Architecture
AMICO
ArtServe
Digital Imaging Project
Art and Images
Hartill Art Associates
Corbis
Perseus Project
Arthur
Archivision
Luna Imaging
Muse
More than 750 great buildings from around the world and across history
are illustrated at this web site with photographic images, architectural drawings,
discussion, bibliography, architect information, and also live 3D models and digital video clips.
This collection from the Library of Congress consists of collections of primary
source and archival material relating to American culture and history including
photographic and motion picture collections.
Images of archaeological sites and artifacts, techniques of archaeology
and ethnographic subjects, as well as reproductions of stone tools.
Contains selected works, articles and resources on 30 master photographers.
Hulton Getty is an archive collection containing 19th and 20th century photography.
It is a historical resource and a research tool. The cornerstone of the Hulton Getty
is the picture post collection which embodies everything that is wondrous
about the art of photojournalism, or social documentary as some prefer to call it,
and features the work of pioneering photojournalists.
An electronic photo archive on cities and architecture
that is world-wide in scope. it contains good quality jpg
images, with a formal list of technical information, and is
accessed by a country and site index.
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not
for profit association of institutions with collections
of art, that have come together to enable educational use
of the digital documentation of their collections.
This server, in the Department of Art History & Visual
Studies at the Australian National University, offers access
to around 80,000 images all concerned in some way
with the history of art and architecture, and the great
majority unavailable elsewhere on the Web.
This impressive site offers art historical images of European
and North American architecture and sculpture ranging from
Classical Greece to Post-modern. There is also a selection
devoted to women architects which includes
more than 60 buildings by Julia Morgan.Saskia
Saskia provides high quality slides and digital images
of paintings, sculpture and architecture for teaching
and appreciating art history at educational institutions
throughout the world.
Architectural images from the University of Michigan including Palladio. From
the Australian National University 3,000 art history images from the 15th to the 19th
century, including Classical, Medieval and Renaissance architecture and sculpture.
H.A.A. provides in-depth coverage of architecture, sculpture,
and the decorative arts offering an extensive resource
of images ranging from Pre-historic to Contemporary periods.
Offering 23 million images
Perseus contains a massive library of art objects, sites, and buildings.
Each has a description of the object and its context,
as well as images. This web site currently publishes over 15,350 images.
The catalogs currently contain 523 coins, 1420 vases, 366 sculptures,
179 sites, and 381 buildings.
Arthur is currently under development at the Center for Cultural Technology at the Information Sciences
Institute. Arthur can index and search 30,000 images and associated text of 300 selected Websites
organized into five databases. Images can be retrieved by image similarity, contextual similarity
(text in the Web page near the image is similar), or by keywords in the Web pages.
Archivision's archive currently consists of close to 40,000
35mm slides covering more than 1,500 subjects, over 2000 on-line images.
An upcoming Luna project: the photography of Lewis
W. Hine from the George Eastman House Collection
Search through more than 40,000
high-quality images priced from $10-$70 an image.