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Research Quick Start Guides

Image Sources (for Students in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric and others)

Note: Check the individual sites for copyright restrictions or to obtain the required permissions.

See also the SULAIR Images Page.

Image Search Engines

• Google's Image Search Check out Advanced for a more targeted search .
• AltaVista Click on "Image" or "Video."
• Image Search Engines: "A listing of image search engines that allow you to search selected sites rich in images. Produced by Boston University Libraries."

General & Interdisciplinary

• Library of Congress's Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery See also the larger NYPL Digital Collections.
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image
• Trove.net "Art, photos, maps, music, posters, manuscripts..." from libraries and museums worldwide.
• Africa South of the Sahara: Photographs (Karen Fung)
• Digital collections on a variety of subjects from the University of Washington Libraries. Photos, documents and audio/visual resources with an emphasis on rare and unique materials
• Image and Sound Databases From UC Berkeley Library Website: a list of 59 databases of images and sound

History

• Library of Congress: a fantastic treasure trove of information - spend some time here just surfing.
• American Memory "is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." Includes audio, video, photo and print images, maps and documents
• Harvard's Women Working, 1870-1930 - access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources.
• Hoover's Political Posters
• MOAC A browsable and searchable collection of materials from "archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California."
• Online Archive of California: "access to content, including oral histories, documents, images and finding aids" including the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
• The Office of Coast Survey's Historical Map & Chart Collection : "contains over 20,000 maps and charts from the late 1700s to present day. The Collection includes some of the nation's earliest nautical charts, hydrographic surveys, topographic surveys, geodetic surveys, city plans and Civil War battle maps. The Collection is a rich primary historical archive and a testament to the artistry of copper plate engraving technology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
• Images from the History of Medicine (IHM): "access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine."
• Veteran's History Project
• World War I
  • Photos of the Great War: World War One Image Archives
  • The War on the Walls - selections from a collection of
    over 1,500 World War I posters currently housed in Temple
    University Libraries' Special Collections.
• League of Nations Photo Archive
• September 11 Digital Archive

Advertising

• The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920: "over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States" (from materials at Duke University).
• Ad*Access "presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II" (from materials at Duke University).
• Ad Research Guide from GSB - contains a section with several links to advertising images

News

• Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) "The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989." Though there is a fee for copies, some clips are available free.
• Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: "Clifford H. Baldowski, known by the pen-name 'Baldy,' depicted the local, national and international news of his day in the editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution. His work is a rich source for those studying political reorganization in Georgia and the growth of Atlanta as well as the the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnam conflict, Middle East tensions, and Watergate."
• Facts.com: Look for the link for Photos and Graphics. "FACTS.com also delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1940."
• Time Person of the Year, from 1927 to the present. Includes cover, text, as well as ability to do a photo history search. (Have to put up with annoying ads.)

Posters

• German Posters from Hoover collection
• Hoover collection of posters
• International Institute of Social History, political posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China.
  

Humanities

• American Photography: A Century of Images seven short features on photography from PBS
• ATLA (American Theological Library Assocation) Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
• Humanities Digital Information Service Image homepage (Stanford University Libraries)
• Early English Books Online Use Advanced to search by illustration, such as coat of arms, portrait, chart.
• Medieval Images
• Voice of the Shuttle: (some visual) "Web page for humanities research produced by the English Department of the University of Santa Barbara." "A structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources."

Art & Architecture

• ARTstor
• AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium) Library Also available through Stanford's Luna Insight browser.
• Art & Architecture Library's Image Resources
• Database of Virtual Art
• East Germany and Latin American Poster Art
• Cities/Buildings Database "a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world."
• MOAC A browsable and searchable collection of materials from "archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California."

Film, Television & Multimedia Links

• UD 99: Moving Image Archive
• Internet Archive: Movie Archive
• Singingfish: Multimedia Search Engine
• Television Archive news and analysis of Sept. 11, 2001
• British Pathe

Performing Arts

• I Hear America Singing
• Performing Arts in America, 1875-1925 (New York Public Library)

Science

• NASA Multimedia and Dryden Flight Research Center Gallery
• Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth from NASA, "access to all photographs since 1961."
• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Images from the History of Medicine (IHM): "access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine."
• Branner's Earth Sciences links & their Air Photos
• Swain Library's Museums & Exhibits
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image images of scientists and philosophers

Subject Directories with Selected, Evaluated Sites (may have image resources)

• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections (built by librarians)
• Academic Info provides "an easy to use online subject directory to access quality, relevant, and current Internet resources on each academic discipline."
• About.com ("the Human Internet")
• Digital Librarian: "a librarian's choice of the best of the Web."
• Direct Search: links to resources on the invisible web
• BUBL Link: "selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas."
• Resource Discovery Network: "a collaboration of over sixty educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library… [which] will connect you to Web sites relevant to learning, teaching and research."
• Virtual Learning Resources Center: a non-commercial site that searches many of the above subject directories with just one search.

ShinJoung Yeo, Coordinator for Reference Services
Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University Libraries
shyeo@stanford.edu

Last modified: October 26, 2010