Finding images online
There are many image databases on the internet. Often the images in these databases will not be retrieved by search engines.
Image databases come in all shapes and sizes: ranging from large databases of professional institutions like archives or museums to small image collections on individuals' websites. The quality of the images differs enormously.
ARTstor (public collections)
- ARTstor (public collections) This link opens in a new windowArtstor’s public collections offer approximately 1 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For more information about Artstor Public Collections consult the libguide created by Artstor
Selected image databases
- Flickr - the commons This link opens in a new windowPresents images from public photographic archives like The U.S. National Archives, Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress
- Wikimedia commons This link opens in a new windowWikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone
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