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Ad*Access, 1911-1955 (Duke University)
Adflip, 1940-present
Ads: Greenwashing Index. (promoted by EnviroMedia Social Marketing and University of Oregon)
Advertising Archives (London, England)
Early Advertising of the West [U.S.] (University of Washington)
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (Duke University)
Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Sears Archive, 1886-present (search Homes and Products)
Visual Information Access, search VIA for l9th-century trade cards and advertisements as subject (Harvard University)
Clip Art
- Clipart.com *
- ClipArtGallery.com
- The Icon Browser (Computer Science Department, Pisa University, Italy)
Illuminated Manuscripts and “Great Books”
- Bodleian Libray Manuscripts (University of Oxford)
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: Glossary (British Library)
- DScriptorium: Medieval Manuscripts*
- Enluminures (in French libraries)
- Manuscripta Mediaevalia (in German libraries; click on Datenbank)
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague, The Netherlands)
- Miniatures from the Topkapi Museum (Istanbul)
- Turning the Pages Online Gallery (British Library)
Maps
- Historical Map Web Sites (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, UTexas, Austin) *
- Historical Maps of the United States (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, UTexas, Austin) *
- Mapping History (University of Oregon)
- Maps on Other Web Sites (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, UTexas, Austin) *
- National Atlas of the United States
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Frequently Asked Questions
People: Pictures and Portraits
- Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences (Louisiana State University Libraries)
- Foto Marburg: Portraits (click on Bildindex, then Portrats; mainly German)
- Historical Figures (international) (Perry-Castaneda Library, University of Texas at Austin)
- Images from the History of Medicine, NLM (international)
- Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (Schomberg Center, NYPL)
- Images of Physicists (international) *
- Inventor Archive (Lemelson-MIT Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Joconde: Personnages et êtres imaginaires and Autres personnages
- Labor Arts (mainly US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: People (includes Nobel Laureates)
- Legal Portraits Online (type in lawyer’s name or lawyers, Middle Ages to the late twentieth century, Harvard Law School Library)
- Librarians’ Index to the Internet: Portraits (international) *
- National Portrait Gallery (London)
- National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)
- People and Portraits Portfolios. WorldImage, California State University.
- Philosophers: The Window: Philosophy on the Internet (international)
- Photographic Portraits of American Artists (Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian)
- Pictures of Famous Physicists (University of Frankfurt)
- Poets’ Corner: Faces of the Poets (American and European)
- Prints and Photographs (P&P) Online Catalog – (Library of Congress, search 1 collection or all 54 simultaneously, sample images only)
- Scientific Identity: Portraits by research discipline (Smithsonian)
- Tax History Museum ( Joseph J. Thorndike, public service initiative from Tax Analysts)
Photography
- BUBL LINK’s Photographs and Photography *
- Flickr: The Commons, public photography archives photostreamed (museums, libraries)
- FOTOSEARCH.com
- George Eastman House Photography Collection
- Life
- Photo Archive hosted by Google (1750s to today)
- New York Public Library Picture Collection
- Neweum (today’s front pages and limited archive of historical events beginning in 2003))
- PhotoGraphicLibraries.com
- Photomuse: a Resource for Scholarship in the History of Photography (George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the Institute of Creative Photography)
- Pictures and Picture Stories (Reuters, current events)
- Smithsonian Photographs Online
- Time Life Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons (freely usable media files: photos, sound, and multimedia)
Public Domain
American Memory, Library of Congress: ” The Restriction Statement that accompanies each American Memory collection provides known information regarding ownership of materials in the collection. If known, we include contacts for permission. In some cases the Restriction Statement will indicate that material in a particular collection may be used freely; in other cases the Restriction Statement may only be a starting point for your inquiry.”
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Digital Images Online: ” The Library may be able to assist in identifying the copyright holders. It is not necessary to seek the Library’s permission to publish texts or images (unless the University is identified as the copyright holder.) The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library should, however, be cited as the source.”
Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries, by Coby Logen. DotGovWatch.Photos taken by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duty. Not a U.S. Government website.
Images of American Political History: ” Posting online by Dr. William J. Ball. All images are believed to be in the public domain. Please do not contact me for permission to use them.”
Images You Can Use, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa*
National Atlas of the United States
New York Public Library Digital Gallery: “Images may be freely downloaded for personal, research, and study purposes only.”
Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin, Portrait Gallery (Historical Figures): ” The images in this collection are in the public domain. You do not need to ask for permission to use these images.”
Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress: “Copyright restrictions.”
Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures from Old Books: “They are mostly public domain (copyright-free, out of copyright) here in Canada, and often in other countries too, unless otherwise noted…”
“Visual resources online; digital images of primary materials on public Web sites,” Annie Blecksmith, College & Research Libraries News, vol. 69 no. 5, May 2008.
Web Gallery of Art: “… intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers.”
Wikimedia Commons…” A database of 6,898,821 media files to which anyone can contribute.”
Wikipedia: Public Domain Image Resources.
World War II Posters, Northwestern University: ” Materials published by the U.S. Government Printing Office are in the public domain and, as such, not subject to copyright restriction. However, the Library requests users to cite the URL and Northwestern University Library if they wish to reproduce images from its poster database.”
WorldImages, California State University. Includes over 72,000 images that are available free of charge for educational use.”The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has just been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into over 800 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.” Portfolio List.
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