Digital Image and Video Collections

Luna Insight Image Collections

These collections can all be viewed, aggregated, and searched after first downloading, installing, and launching the Stanford Luna Insight java client from your Start menu or desktop.

Most Insight collections are also available via InsightBrowser, a non-downloaded plugin for most web browsers. InsightBrowser collections are only searchable individually (i.e., not cross-collection), and have some other limitations.

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Stanford-Created Insight Collections:

• Stanford Historical Photographs [view in InsightBrowser] (New images!)
• Douglas Menuez Photography Collection [view in InsightBrowser]
• Chicana Art [view in InsightBrowser] (Stanford community only)
• Maps of Africa [view in InsightBrowser]
• Stanford Geological Survey [view in InsightBrowser]
• Athanasius Kircher Correspondence [not yet available in InsightBrowser]

  Licensed Insight Collections:

• AMICA Library [view in InsightBrowser] (Stanford community only)
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection [view in InsightBrowser]
• Japanese Historical Maps [view in InsightBrowser]
• Farber Gravestone Collection [view in InsightBrowser]

  See also David Rumsey's extensive Visual Collections website for more Insight-enabled collections.

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ARTstor (Stanford community only)

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Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls

Searchable collection of almost 1,000 cover images from Stanford's collection of dime novels, penny dreadfuls, and story papers. This site also contains full texts of a small number of dime novel, bibliographies, and other secondary materials.

Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera (New!)

From Alexander Street Press, a fully searchable collection of thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the American Civil War.

Visual History Archive (New!)

From the May 12, 2009, a fully searchable collection of more than 51,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.

Ricardo Sánchez Notebooks (coming soon)