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Various Subjects
* indicates a metasite of links to imagebases.
Cartoon and Comic Links (T.R. Gowrishankar, MIT) *
Cartoonbank: The Ultimate New Yorker Cartoon Database
Editorial Cartoons (1970--current)
Cascades Volcano Observatory Photo Archives (United States Geophysical Service)
Costumer's Manifesto * (Tara Maginnis)
Costume Site (Lauren Podolak) *
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Memorial Library, U Wisconsin at Madison)
Fashion: Godey's Lady's Book Online (Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont)
Flowerbase Click on Flowerbase. (Glasshouse Business Networks, NL)
FoodLexx (Cologne, Germany)
Catena: Digital Archives Historic Gardens and Landscapes. Bard Graduate Center. new
Historic Campus Architecture Project, Council of Independent Colleges, Washington, DC
Historical Picture Collections History Department, University of San Diego *
How Stuff Works (BYG Publishing, Inc.)
ILN (Illustrated London News) Picture Gallery (1842 to the present)
Images from the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (Schomberg Center, NYPL)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Image Library--About
Manual of Traffic Signs, including an Alphabetical Index of Signs
Menu Collections, links from the New York Public Library Menu Collection Research Guide
Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery (Michael W. Davidson, Florida State University)
Moving Image Collections, Georgia Tech
Classical Myth: the ancient sources (Laurel Bowman, University of Victoria)
Mythology (Classical) Art Museum (Kosta Hadavas, Beloit College)
National Archives and Records Administration Archival Information Locator
Natural Hazards (National Geophysical Data Center)
New York Public Library Digtial Gallery Subject Index
New York Public Library Picture Collection
Newseum (today's front pages and thematically archived front pages; international newspapers)
Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. (requires TIFF plug-in)
Google Patent Search (7 million patents)
Penny Postcards "These postcards cost 1¢ to mail. Postage was temporarily raised to 2¢ from 1917 to 1919 to cover the cost of World War I & from 1925 to 1928..." Browsable by state: county.
Perseus Digital Library: Images (Classics Dept., Tufts University)
Posters--Turn of the Century. American and European prints. New York Public Library
SYMBOLS.com (Carl G. Liungman, Thought Signs, IOS Press)
Tax History Museum (Joseph J. Thorndike, public service initiative from Tax Analysts)
Theatre History on the Web (Jack Walcott, University of Washington, School of Drama)*
abc Typography: A Virtual Museum of Typography
Walk Through Time (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
World Heritage List and World Heritage in Danger List (UNESCO)
WorldImages (California State University) Portfolio List by subject. Browse the Collection. new
Go To References
Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer
rthomas@bu.edu (617) 353-3770