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Digital Image Collections on the Internet

Alta Vista:  Images, Audio and Video
    Alta Vista's search engine for images, etc.
Artchive
    Includes a good variety of images, articles, etc.
Art Images for College Teaching
     AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.
Art Masterpiece Collection - Jim's Fine Art Collection
     This collection has over 4,500 fine art images.
ArtServe
    The Australian National University offers access to 150,000 art and architectural images.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
     A major archive with 150,000 architectural drawings by over 1,000 architects, 50,000 photographs, and an extensive manuscript collection.
BIODIDAC Digital Resources for Teaching Biology
     Features over 4,000 images.
Corbis
     Corbis has one of the largest image collections in the world with 25 million historical, contemporary, celebrity, and fine art images. More than 1.5 million of these images are available online.
Digital Archive of American Architecture
     This archive consists of nearly 1,400 digitized images of American architecture (280 buildings) plus explanatory material.
Digital Archive of Architecture
     Archive of European and American architecture.
Digital Art Collections
     These images have been digitized from a personal slide collection of Greek and Roman art and architecture.
Digital Image Catalog
     This project includes photographs, pictures and manuscripts related to the history of California.
Ditto.com
     A visual search engine for locating images.
Earth From Space
     The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database of over 375,000 images is a national treasure.
EarthRISE
     This database of 100,000 images of earth can be searched by city, state, country, continent, feature (rivers, mountains, etc.), or by an interactive "click and zoom" topographical map.
Electronic Text Center
     The University of Virginia Library offers over 40,000 texts and 50,000 images.
Exploring Image Collections on the Internet
     This MIT site maintains one of the largest directories to image collections on the Web.
Graphic Arts Library & Digital Image Database - Cary Collection
     The Cary Collection  covers the history and practice of printing.
Historical Postcards Online
     These WWW links to History Resources are presented by the Department of History, University of California, Riverside.
Image Collections and Digital Imaging Information
     This directory guides you to over 30 image collections on the Web.
Italian Sculpture
     Extensive collection of 1200 years of Italian sculpture.
Mesoamerican Photo Archive
     Features full-color photographs of archaeological sites and museums from all over Mexico, complete with detailed captions.
NASA Image Exchange
     More than 500,000 photos and data images from 10 NASA Centers have been linked together to create a searchable database of agency imagery covering a variety of NASA programs.
NASA JSC Digital Image Collection
     Over 250,000 images have been captured, digitized and stored by NASA.
NASA Multimedia Gallery
     This site includes photos, audio files, video, animations and art.
NASA Photo Gallery
     This Web page is an attempt to bring NASA's still images to one location.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Image Gallery
     Includes fascinating images of coral reefs, ice core samples, tree rings, lake sediment, etc.
NOAA Photo Collection
     The NOAA collection of 10,000 images has been produced to help those interested in studying our natural world learn more about our oceans, the atmosphere, and the history of the pioneers who began the study of our environment in the United States.
PCL Map Collection
     Free access to over 2,400 maps.
PhotoShare
     PhotoShare is a photographic image library of 7,000 images for teachers and students to use in their multimedia projects.
Picture It
     Graphics for biology teachers with images of cells, genetics, etc.
SAH Image Exchange
     This is a set of images meant for teaching architectural history.
SeaWiFS Project Image Archive
     Global ocean color monitoring images from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Southeastern Architectural Archive
     Over 25,000 photographs and negatives, architectural records, etc.
Space and Astronomy Photos
     A directory to space-related image archives.
The Urban Landscape-Digital Image Access Project
     A database of 1,000 images from various collections held by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Web Gallery of Art
     The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions.
World History Images
     World history images for classroom use.