BLM Historical Photographs
http://www.photos.blm.gov/
Bureau of Land Management’s historical photo database. View more than 2,500 historic photo images taken across the United States from 1890 - 1970. Many of the images highlight traditional activities found on the public lands, such as grazing and mining. There are also photos of covered wagons, homesteading, and surveying of the West. [Home site identifies this as the correct link, but doesn't work.] |
British Library Images Online
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/
The British Library is the United Kingdom's national library and one of the largest libraries in the world. The site provides "thousands of the greatest images from the British Library's collections, which include manuscripts, rare books and maps spanning almost 3000 years with material from every continent." Searchable, or browse by subject or title. Images are available for purchase. |
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth. Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. This NASA database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. |
MIT Museum Online Holography
http://museumcollections.mit.edu/index.html
"The MIT Museum has the largest and most comprehensive collection of holograms in the world. The collection contains early pieces from the inception of holography in the late 1940s through its artistic and technical evolution and highlights works by some of the world's foremost holographers." The site features selected examples of this three-dimensional imaging technique. Searchable, or browsable by topics such as jewelry and advertisements. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). |
NYPL Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
This site "provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library [NYPL], including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." Searchable, or browsable by collection, such as art and literature, cities and buildings, industry and technology, and nature and science. |
NYPL Picture Collection Online
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
The digital collection of images presented here (30,000 digitized images from
books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and
postcards, mostly created before 1923) is taken from the in-print collection
of images that NYPL has been collecting since 1915. While both sets of images
are useful to teachers, artists, students, and a variety of researchers,
the organization and cataloging of the online collection is what makes these
images so valuable. Users can browse the collection by name, title, subject,
and author, and quick and advanced search options are available. The subject
and physical descriptors for each image are extensive, and a source is given
for each image. Images can be added to a “My Gallery"save function for viewing
or ordering, and can be printed, emailed or saved to disk. Users who wish
to order images for commercial use may do so by paying a fee to cover the
cost of permissions and licensing.--RUSA Best Ref List |
Ryerson's Black Star Historical Black and White Photography Collection
http://www.ryerson.ca/collection/
Ryerson University in Canada has acquired the Black Star Historical Black & White Photography Collection. It is an extraordinary Collection of almost 300,000 photographs from the Black Star Agency in New York City. It tells the story of the 20th century through breathtaking images, shot by world-famous photographers and photojournalists. Ryerson has been gifted this Collection along with a $7 million financial contribution to help support the preservation, research, study and exhibit of the Collection |
Time & Life Pictures: Defining visions of
an enduring history
http://www.timelifepictures.com/MS_TIMEPIX/source/home/home.aspx
Time & Life Pictures represents some of the world's most recognizable imagery. On this website, we offer content from the finest photojournalists, documenting past and present political and cultural events, as well as celebrities and the American experience. |
Ulmann Photograph Collection
http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/ulmann/
"This site provides access to 1800 of approximately 12,000 images from the Ulmann Photograph Collection." Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) "documented the rural people of the South, particularly the mountain peoples of Appalachia and the Gullahs of the Sea Islands," and also photographed intellectuals, artists, and writers. Searchable and browsable. From the University of Oregon Libraries. |
Web Library - Pixels at an Exhibition
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/exhibitions.htm
Online companion to the book, The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources, by Nick Tomaiuolo. Chapter Seven: Pixels at an Exhibition (Excellent resource) |
Web Library - When Image Is Everything
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/images.htm
Online companion to the book, The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources, by Nick Tomaiuolo. Chapter Six: When Image is Everything. (Excellent resource) |
World Wide Panorama
http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/index.html
On Saturday, March 20, 2004, more than 180 photographers in 40 countries around the world celebrated the Equinox by creating VR panoramas. This site showcases the results of their efforts. (The World Wide Panorama began in March 2004 and has become an ongoing series of events. Photography takes place on the solstices (longest and shortest days of the year) and equinoxes (day and night of equal length). Photographers all over the world are welcome to participate.) |
AlltheWeb Pictures - Video - Audio Search
http://www.alltheweb.com/
To search for video clips, use Video tab and/or advanced search mode for choice of limits. |
AltaVista - Image Search
http://www.altavista.com/image/default
Searching limits include size, and certain types of image collections, such as, news, movies, Corbis.com (a commercial service) and more. |
Ditto.com
http://www.ditto.com/
Image finding search tool that retrieves images that have been screened. You can search by topic and get that specific topic. You can browse pictures by topic. The advanced search lets you search by file type, size and date the image was added. |
FindSounds
http://findsounds.com/
Allows you to search for sound effects. You can find sounds from animals, insects, musical instruments, machines, nature, and so forth. The tool will allow you to search by text and by performing a "sounds like" search. You can find audio files in WAV, AIFF, and AU formats. Each search result will include a URL of an audio file and information about it, such as its resolution, and duration. It is simple to download and play the files, if your computer has the proper software installed. |
Google Image Search
http://images.google.com/
Over 800 million images in its database, Google's Advanced Image Search mode
allows you to limit your search to particular image file types, to black
and white images, or those that are small, medium, or large. The results
list shows thumbnail images, file name, plus the Web site where the image
can be found. Clicking an image will bring technical information about the
image in the top frame, with the source Web page showing in the bottom frame.
(Google now also has a Video Search.) |
Internet Archive- Moving Image Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
The moving images collections of the Internet Archive are free and open to the public. They are for scholarship and research purposes only. Included are open source movies, the Prelinger Archives, and more. |
Live Music Archive
http://www.archive.org/audio/
Want to listen to a live recording, but don't want to risk potential problems from using a file sharing network like Kazaa or Morpheus? The Live Music Archive offers thousands of hours of free, legal music, available on demand. |
NASA Multimedia Search
http://nix.nasa.gov/
Terrific searchable multimedia collection of the U.S. Government's National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) space photography and astronomy
online
image and photo collection, and movie and audio. It includes textual descriptions,
images, links to higher resolution images--a truly outstanding example of
an image-based
specialized search engine. --Schlein |
Open Video Project
http://www.open-video.org/
A shared digital video collection from the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
PicSearch
http://www.picsearch.com/
Innovating image search: Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 1,700,000,000 pictures. |
Pollstar -- The Concert Hotwire
http://www.pollstar.com/
This music site is very useful for tracking artists, city, and venue to find dates for upcoming concerts all around the world. More a subject directory than a search engine, it also offers premium services. --Schlein |
Punk Rock and Roll Search Engine
http://www.trashsurfin.de/
Search & Destroy search engine indexes 1330+ sites on punk rock music. It also features genre news and a browsable list of categories. --Schlein |
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