http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchingresources.html
From the Technical Advisory Service for Images, a detailed tutorial on how to find images. It includes search strategies and links to likely places to find images.
http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html
A collection of links to sites containing images, both popular and historical, maintained by an American librarian.
"The Office of Imaging and Photographic Services is the Smithsonian's central source for the creation, processing, distribution and archival storage of photographs and digital images." Download smaller size images for free, pay for printed images.
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zvda&rkey=art
Galileo Resource (Requires password off campus)
Included in the Grove Dictionary of Art (Grove Art Online), this extensive gallery of fine art contains over 130,000 images.
An extensive collection of editorial cartoons from around the United States with some international representation. The main page allows browsing by most recent or by topic. There's also a search feature and a guide for teachers.
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Free and open to the public, this archive contains thousands of moving images. Of particular interest is the Prelinger Archives, "Over 1,200 'ephemeral' (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films made from 1927 through the present." Available as streaming video clips, via QuickTime, or as a download, in several formats.
A searchable database of "classic" print ads. Search by keyword, browse by decade, or peruse ads collected into lists, such as "Comic Book Ads" or "Ads as Art." Images can be sent as e-cards.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/search.html
Ad*Access is a project from the Duke University library that aims to "make a selection of historical advertisements available for study and research." It contains over 7,000 ads from 1911 to 1955, published mostly in U.S. publications. Images fall into one of the following five categories: Beauty and Hygiene, Transportation, Radio, Television, and World War II.
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=larc&rkey=gaaz
1500 images of "important and representative architectural sites and landscapes in the state with an emphasis on Athens and Middle Georgia." Collection consists of "color slides and black and white photographs taken from the 1940s through the 1980s."
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=vang&rkey=gaaz
"Historically significant photographs of people, places, and structures from Georgia's past."
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings.html
"More than 800 great buildings from around the world and across history . . . with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography, architect info, and live 3D walkthrough computer models."
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
From the Library of Congress, the vast American Memory project includes many photographs and prints, including images of war, comic books, propaganda posters and so on. To find them, from the front page, click on "Search." On the search page, limit your results to "Photographs & Prints."
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
"A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."
http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank/
From the Learning and Teaching Support Network. "ImageBank consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers, Learned Societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes." Search by systematic classification or common name for thousands of plants and animals to find high-resolution pictures with annotations.
http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/default.htm
Photos of various locations on Earth and heavenly bodies taken by a satellite camera.
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