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ARTstor (http://uclibs.org/PID/44518) [Restricted] VPN
ARTStor is a library of digital images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. It contains a searchable database of more than a million digital images, covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.
Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/44518 (http://uclibs.org/PID/44518) [Restricted] VPN
More Information:
  • Getting Started with ARTstor [via UCDavis] For initial training and information on using ARTstor, contact: artstorhelp@lib.ucdavis.edu
  • For off-campus access, first register with ARTstor from a computer on campus. Then, you may login from off campus with your ARTstor ID by going directly to www.artstor.org. ARTstor does not always work smoothly with the VPN. Or, you may use the Proxy
  • If you would like to join a UCD community of ARTstor users to share discoveries and help solve problems, please join our ARTstor Users Group on Smartsite.
Flickr Commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons)
A free public collection of photographs from major photography archives. Contributors include the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal),the Bibliothèque de Toulouse, and many others.
Access: http://www.flickr.com/commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons)
CAMIO [via OCLC] (http://camio.oclc.org/) [Restricted] VPN
CAMIO--Catalog of Art Museum Images Online--contains around 80,000 images of works of Art from 24 different museums. The artwork selection draws from a wide range of places and time periods.
Access: http://camio.oclc.org/ (http://camio.oclc.org/) [Restricted] VPN
More Information:
  • The images in CAMIO are licensed for non-commericial, educational use (teaching and research).

General Databases

Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)
Provides a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources.
Access: http://lii.org/ (http://lii.org/)
UC Image Service (http://imageservice.cdlib.org/)
The UC Image Service provides digital image collections and robust tools in support of teaching, learning, and research for faculty and students of the University of California. This page describes all the image collections accessed through the UC Image Service; it also has links to more information about the Image Service itself.
Access: http://imageservice.cdlib.org/ (http://imageservice.cdlib.org/)
More Information:
  • Some of the public collections listed here are also offered through a new, easier-to-use Web site, the "Luna Commons." http://www.lunacommons.org/

Full-text Resources

Amica [Art Images] (http://uclibs.org/PID/32491) [Restricted] VPN
ACCESS TO AMICA ENDS JUNE 30, 2008. MOST OF THE IMAGES IN AMICA CAN NOW BE ACCESSED IN ARTSTOR. AMICA (formerly AMICO) offers high resolution images of approximately 115,000 different works of art from museum collections. Images represent a comprehensive survey of Cultures, styles and time periods. You can either search AMICO directly on the web or you can download the Insight® Client software.
Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/32491 (http://uclibs.org/PID/32491) [Restricted] VPN
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Hartill Collection [Architecture Images] (http://www.artstor.org) [Restricted] VPN
THE HARTHILL COLLECTION HAS MOVED INTO ARTSTOR WHERE IT IS FOUND UNDER "ARTstor Collections." This collection of images covers the architectural history of the Western world from earliest antiquity through the present,and from the Middle East to the Americas. It includes thousands of details of architectural decoration, mosaics, sculpture and stained glass, as well as related decorative arts and public sculpture. It is exceptionally strong in European medieval architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods; additionally, modern architecture and sculpture are both especially well represented.
Location: For additional information see the main ARTstor entry in the databases list.
Access: http://www.artstor.org (http://www.artstor.org) [Restricted] VPN
Saskia Art Images (http://www.artstor.org) [Restricted] VPN
SASKIA ART AND ARCHITECTURE HAS MOVED TO ARTSTOR WHERE IT CAN BE FOUND UNDER "INSTUTIONAL COLLECTIONS: UC SHARE" Saskia offers over 26,000 art historical digital images, with a special emphasis on core images required for teaching the history of Western Art.
Location: For more information see the main ARTstor entry in the databases list.
Access: http://www.artstor.org (http://www.artstor.org) [Restricted] VPN
Museum and Online Archive of California Images (MOAC) (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/search.html)
MOAC WILL BE REMOVED FROM INSIGHT BUT CONTINUES TO BE AVAILABLE AT THE MOAC WEBSITE AND VIA CALISPHERE. The MOAC collection contains nearly 38,000 images from 7 California museums and libraries -- Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.
Access: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/search.html (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/search.html)
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Tebtunis Papyri Collection (http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu/index.html)
THE TEBTUNIS PAPYRI COLLECTION IS BEING REMOVED FROM INSIGHT BUT CONTINUES TO BE AVAILABLE ONLINE FROM THE BANCROFT LIBRARY. The Tebtunis Papyri Collection consists of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt.
Access: http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu/index.html (http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu/index.html)
Grove Dictionary of Art [via Oxford University Press] (http://www.groveart.com/index.html) [Restricted] VPN
The Grove Dictionary of Art is the standard multi-volume reference work on all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present. Now,it has been combined with three other reference works in the new Oxford Art Online. It can be searched separately or in conjunction with The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. It also incorporates a related collection of more than 5,000 digital images.
Access: http://www.groveart.com/index.html (http://www.groveart.com/index.html) [Restricted] VPN
AP Images (http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx) [Restricted] VPN
Formerly known as the AccuNet/Associated Press Photo Archive, this site is an ever-changing collection of over 700,000 photographs from the AP news service, historic images. Most of the images are contemporary and date from 1995 forwards and all include descriptive captions and source information.
Coverage: 1844-present; current file contains 1995-present
Access: http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx (http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx) [Restricted] VPN
California Historic Topographic Map Collection (http://cricket.csuchico.edu/spcfotos/maps/topo_search.html)
Special Collections at California State University, Chico's Merriam Library has a fine collection of scanned historic topographic maps of California.
Access: http://cricket.csuchico.edu/spcfotos/maps/topo_search.html (http://cricket.csuchico.edu/spcfotos/maps/topo_search.html)
American Memory Map Collections (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html)
Online images of maps in the Library of Congress's collection. The emphasis is on Americana and Cartographic treasures. Categories of maps include: Discovery and Exploration, Transportation and Communication, Military Battles and Campaigns, Cultural Landscapes, and Conservation and Environment. Many of the maps represented are historical maps and most are not covered by copyright protection.
Coverage: 1500 - present
Access: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html)
David Rumsey Map Collection (http://www.davidrumsey.com./)
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps.
Access: http://www.davidrumsey.com./ (http://www.davidrumsey.com./)
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/)
Over 5,500 online map images from the University of Texas's Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection. Many of the images are general country maps, but there are also many historical maps available with an emphasis on Texas.
Access: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/)
UC Berkeley Library Digital Map Collection (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/browse.html)
Search thousands of digital maps in the University of California, Berkeley's Earth Sciences & Map Library Digital Collection.
Access: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/browse.html (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/browse.html)
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TerraServer USA (http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx)
High resolution aerial imagery of the United States and scanned current USGS topographic maps available for viewing and limited downloading (with world files).
Access: http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx (http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx)
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/)
This image archive features numerous maps, images, and photographs depicting the slave trade and black culture in the Americas. Most are drawn from sources between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Access: http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/ (http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/)
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html)
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions.
Coverage: 1850-1925
Access: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html)
More Information:
  • The materials in this online compilation are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berkeley; and The California Historical Society in San Francisco.
Corsair: Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm)
Corsair, the website for the Pierpont Morgan Library includes a searchable database of more than 15,000 images selected from the Pierpont Morgan Library's collection of medieval manuscripts.
Access: http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm (http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm)
WorldImages [San Jose State University] (http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/)
WorldImages "contains almost 50,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images can be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into some 440 portfolios."
Access: http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/ (http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/)
Discover Islamic Art (http://www.discoverislamicart.org)
An online exhibit of Islamic art objects drawn from Museums around the world. It is a project of the Museum With No Frontiers.
Access: http://www.discoverislamicart.org (http://www.discoverislamicart.org)
Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/)
"Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. 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. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations." [from the website]
Access: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/ (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/)
Plan59.com (http://www.plan59.com/main.htm)
A "museum (and gift shop) of mid-century illustration," this site has a large collection of 1950s commercial art.
Access: http://www.plan59.com/main.htm (http://www.plan59.com/main.htm)
Landscape Architecture Image Resource [LAIR] (http://www.lair.umd.edu)
This collection of Landscape Architecture-related images is a joint product of several Landscape Architecture departments, including UCDavis'. Images are well indexed and searchable by a variety of criteria.
Access: http://www.lair.umd.edu (http://www.lair.umd.edu)
Forest History Society Photograph Collections (http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/FHSPhotoGalleries.html)
Photographs from the first half of the Twentieth Century on a surprisingly wide range of subjects including the San Francisco Earthquake, the Boy Scouts and Farming.
Access: http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/FHSPhotoGalleries.html (http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/FHSPhotoGalleries.html)
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google (http://images.google.com/hosted/life)
This is a collection of millions of digitized photographs drawn from the LIFE Magazine archives. Many have never been published. A joint project of Life Magazine and Google, it is searchable through the standard Google interface.
Access: http://images.google.com/hosted/life (http://images.google.com/hosted/life)
American Museum of the Moving Image Online Exhibitions (http://www.movingimage.us/site/online/index.html)
These online exhibitions feature The Pinewood Dialogues Online (conversations with major contemporary figures in film), as well as "The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004" (includes full videos and transcripts).
Access: http://www.movingimage.us/site/online/index.html (http://www.movingimage.us/site/online/index.html)
Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers (http://www.loc.gov/film/arch.html)
This page provides a list of quick links to international archives with moving image collections.
Access: http://www.loc.gov/film/arch.html (http://www.loc.gov/film/arch.html)
Moving Image Collections (MIC) (http://mic.loc.gov/)
MIC serves as both a moving image archives directory and a searchable Union Catalog for moving image collections. It also has different web portal features, including preservation information for the general public and resources for science educators.
Access: http://mic.loc.gov/ (http://mic.loc.gov/)
Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)
Direct access to some 2 million digital objects (and counting): film,photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers. Selected from already digitised resources available in Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. [Note: there is heavy demand for this site so access is sometimes limited to prevent overload.]
Access: http://www.europeana.eu (http://www.europeana.eu)
Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/)
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. It includes large online collections of moving images, music and audio recordings.
Access: http://www.archive.org/ (http://www.archive.org/)
More Information:
Online Archive of California (OAC) (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/)
The OAC brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. It includes searchable finding aids for collections held in these institutions as well as a large selection of scanned images and documents from these collections.
Access: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/)
Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive (http://www.umvphotoarchive.org/)
This is an online collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs of the Mississippi Valley along the Iowa/Illinois border. They are selected from the collections of several libraries, museums and colleges in the area.
Access: http://www.umvphotoarchive.org/ (http://www.umvphotoarchive.org/)
Motion Pictures in the American Memory Project [Library of Congress] (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Motion+Picture)
Here are the online collections in the Library of Congress' American Memory Project that contain motion pictures. Topics include the history of film itself, advertising, newsreels, and more. They span the Twentieth Century ending with material related to the September 11, 2001 attack.
Access: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Motion+Picture (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Motion+Picture)
National Archives Digital Copies Search (http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/AdvancedMultimediaSearchForm)
The U.S. National Archives have scanned a significant portion of their holdings, including still and moving images on a wide assortment of topics. This page permits searching of those digitized items only. For a broader search of the holdings of the National Archives, start at their home page, www.nara.gov.
Access: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/AdvancedMultimediaSearchForm (http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/AdvancedMultimediaSearchForm)
The Open Video Project (http://open-video.org/)
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.
Access: http://open-video.org/ (http://open-video.org/)
1789-1939 L'Histoire par L'Image (http://www.histoire-image.org/index.php)
This growing collection of historical images from France is a collaborative project of several academic and cultural institutions and the French government. The images are carefully selected and fully described.
Access: http://www.histoire-image.org/index.php (http://www.histoire-image.org/index.php)

Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources

Fashion, Costume, and Textiles Subject Guide [via UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/fashiontextiles.php)
This pathfinder provides information on reference books, internet resources, suggested subject headings, and related library subject guides available from Shields Library.
Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/fashiontextiles.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/fashiontextiles.php)
Art and Art History Internet Resources [via UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/arthistory-internet-resources.php)
A guide to important free Art and Art History Web sites. Includes online encyclopedias and biographical indexes as well as image collections.
Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/arthistory-internet-resources.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/arthistory-internet-resources.php)
Guide to Luna Insight Client Software for Digital Image Collections [via UCDavis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/insighttips.php)
This guide will orient new users to the University of California instance of this software. It includes installation instructions, an overview, recommended best practices for users, and step-by step instructions for exporting images.
Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/insighttips.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/insighttips.php)

Other Resources

Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture (http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/other.html)
This is a list of image collections in architecture,the fine arts, cartography, history and more--all freely available. Representative collections include: The Museum and Online Archive of California; The Estate Project for Artists with Aids; Maps of Africa; The Comer Archive of Chicago (photographs);The Farber Gravestone Collection. Many of these are accessible through the UC Image Service (imageservice.cdlib.org).
Access: http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/other.html (http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/other.html)
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database [via Emory University] (http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces)
This database provides "information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries." It is primarily a data set permitting not only the display of details of each individual voyage but also the manipulation of that data in tables and charts. It also contains Maps and primary source images.
Access: http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces (http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces)