The
Library of Alexandria/Bibliotheca Alexandrina The New Library of Alexandria, the New Bibliotheca Alexandrina is
dedicated to recapture the spirit of openness and scholarship of the
original Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
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The
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Humanities Library.
Humanities internet
resources
by subject, online foreign language journals, magazines and newspapers.
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MICHAEL
(Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe)
The MICHAEL portal offers access to digital resources
from collections
across Europe. It enables worldwide access to Europe’s cultural
heritage, bringing together unique digital collections from museums,
libraries and archives in one central portal. France, Italy and the
United Kingdom have completed national inventories for MICHAEL.
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Michigan
University. University of Michigan Humanities Initiative
Unrestricted
/ restricted text and image collections. Reference, Bible, Early
English,
Middle English, Modern English, William Blake, Project Muse (Scholarly
journals Online), Project Bartelby (Great Books Online), Victorian
Women
Writers project.
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Monastic libraries
Monastic
Libraries
An introductory history.
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Monastic
and theological studies.
Monastic texts, images of monasteries,
monastic
studies web links.
Picture Libraries, Art History
Image Databases and Online Galleries
The
Garden Picture Library
Thousands of garden pictures.
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International
Library of Photography
Search thousands of photographs by
subject. People,
places, animals, nature.
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Mary
Evans Picture Library, England, UK (MEPL)
A unique collection,
devoted
to world history. 'How we lived, what we did, how we behaved,
what
we wore, famous personages'.
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African
& Asian Visual Artists Archive
The most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by
artists
of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war
period.
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American Memory
Created by the Library of Congress, 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.
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American
Museum
of Photography
Virtual museum dedicated to educating, informing, and sharing
photographs.
Site includes over 5,000 images from daguerreotype portraits to Ansel
Adams.
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Art Eras
An online image gallery of famous works of art, including ancient art,
European art and American art. Organized by period and artists name.
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Artstor
A non-proft digital image library for education and scholarship. The
ARTstor Digital Library provides thousands of images related to
American Studies ranging from colonial times to the present,
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The
Beazley Archive
The Beazley Archive is the largest single collection of images (over
27,000)
from Greek vases, and is excellently indexed, not only by painter, vase
shape,
location, etc. but by subject.
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Biblioteca
Ambrosiana Inventory/Catalogue of the Drawings
In cooperation with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Italy,
Professor
Robert Randolf Coleman of the University of Notre Dame is producing
this
inventory-catalogue of the Ambrosiana's collection of some 12,000
drawings
by European artists.
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British
Museum
Currently includes 279,713 objects in the online collection, of which
126,401 have one or more images.
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Corpus
Vasorum Antiquorum: CVAOnline
A searchable collection of more than 100,000 digital images of
decorated Greek pottery, drawn from the illustrations of the
out-of-print fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
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CORSAIR
A collaboration between the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Index of
Christian
Art, CORSAIR provides access to more than 5,000 digital images from the
Morgan
Library’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
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Digital
Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, with support
from the Chipstone Foundation of Fox Point, Wisconsin. The
Chipstone
Collection contains over 400 images of more than 100 pieces of
Early
American furniture.
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Digital
Scriptorium
Published by the University of California
Berkeley, the
Digital
Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance
manuscripts,
intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an
international
tool for teaching and scholarly research.
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Enluminures
Database
Contains 14,000 selected images from over a thousand illuminated
manuscripts
preserved by French public libraries.
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Estate
Project for Artists with Aids Virtual Collection
The Estate Project for Artists with Aids Virtual Collection is a
database
of high quality images representing the works of artists with
HIV/AIDS.
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Gemini (Graphic
Editions
Limited)
Published by the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), this
online
catalogue raisonné features publications of the Los Angeles
print
and sculpture workshop from its beginning in 1966 through 1996.
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George Eastman House
Photography Collections Online
Selected digital images.
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George Ortiz
Collection
The George Ortiz Collection, an important private
collection
of ancient art and ethnography.
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Getty
Research Library, Photo Study Collection
The Getty Research Library's Photo Study Collection contains
approximately two million photographs that document works of
art
and architecture.
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Graphics Atlas
Developed by The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute
of Technology, provides print identification and characteristic
exploration tools.
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Helios:
Photography Online
Online collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography
Collection.
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Himalayan Art
The mission of the Himalayan Art Project is to create a comprehensive
research
archive of Himalayan and Tibetan art.
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History
of Art Visual Resource Collection, University of California, Berkeley
HAVRC is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide and
photographic print collection of the History of Art Visual Resources
Collection at the University of California, Berkeley.
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ICONCLASS
Iconclass is a subject-specific classification system and a
hierarchically
ordered collection of definitions of objects, persons, events and
abstract
ideas that can be the subject of an image. Art historians, researchers
and
curators use it to describe, classify and examine images represented in
various
media such as paintings, manuscripts, posters, photographs and
newspaper
clippings.
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Image
Database to Enhance Asian Studies [IDEAS]
Materials may be used for educational, non-commercial purposes only.
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ImageBase
ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the
collections
of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of
San
Francisco.
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Joconde
Database
Entirely in French and operated by the Direction des Musées de
France,
the database provides over 135,000 works, 21,500 of which contain
images
of drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture, photography and art objects.
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Kunsthistorisches
Institut in Florenz
A complete documentation of the frescoes of the upper church of San
Francesco in Assisi, undertaken in 1977 by Luigi Artini.
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Los Angeles
County Museum of Art Collections Online
This searchable database includes approximately 45,000 records and
25,000
images from a wide variety of LACMA curatorial departments.
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Medieval
Illuminated Manuscripts
(National Library of the Netherlands)
Includes over 10,000 images from 400+ manuscripts.This database
contains
information about the illuminated medieval manuscripts of the
Koninklijke
Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum.
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Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
Includes digital records of Europe's collections.
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National Palace
Museum of Taipei
Collection of over 5,000 images of Chinese ceramics, paintings,
bronzes, jewelry, costumes and books.
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NYPL Digital
Gallery
Access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and
printed
rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including
illuminated
manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and
photographs,
illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
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Online Archive of
California (OAC)
Online Archive of California (OAC), in partnership with the California
Digital
Library (CDL), is a digital resource providing access to materials held
in
libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California.
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Parker
on the Web Prototype
A collaborative project between Stanford University Libraries, the
University
of Cambridge and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, will eventually
provide
hundreds of medieval manuscripts available on the Internet. The
prototype
version includes the Matthew Paris Chronica Maiora manuscripts. Users
must
register (at no cost) in order to search the prototype version.
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Photographic
Portraits of American Artists from the Peter A. Juley & Son
Collection
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Picture
Collection Online
Includes 30,000 digitized images, mostly pre-1923, from the New York
Public
Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, Picture Collection.
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Portfolio
(Princeton University Library)
Includes images from the Department of Rare Books and Special
Collections,
Princeton University Library, including photographs, portraits,
illuminated
manuscripts and miniatures, illustrated books, and works of art on
paper.
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Réunion des
Musées Nationaux Photo Agency
More than 100,000 color transparencies and 500,000 black-and-white
negatives
relating to works of art in France's national museums: paintings,
sculptures,
decorative arts, drawings and photographs.
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San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Collections Access Online
Search for specific artworks or
artists
in SFMOMA's collections, or browse by artist, medium or subject.
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Slide and
Photograph Image Retrieval Online (SPIRO)
SPIRO is the visual online catalog to the 35 mm slide collection of the
Architectural Visual Resources Library at the University of California,
Berkeley.
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Timeline
of Art History
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and
thematic
exploration of the history of art from around the world illustrated by
the
Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
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Vézelay,
Benedictine Abbey Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Burgundy, France)
The collection is comprised of 91 images,
documenting one of the most important surviving monuments of
architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque period.
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Visual
Collections:
Images of Art, History and Culture
Visual Collections is a digital image collection portal that
includes
more than 300,000 works from museums, universities and private
collections
throughout the world sponsored by David Rumsey and Cartography
Associates. Fine art, photography, maps, architecture and other collections of
culture
are represented within Visual Collections.
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Vivarium
Searchable on-line digital collections of Saint John's University and
the College of Saint Benedict. Includes digitized manuscripts, art,
rare books, photographs, audio, video, and other resources.
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National
Film Preservation Board, US Library of Congress Archive. Links to
national
film archives around the world. Alphabetical listing by country.
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Science
and Society Picture Library, UK.
Pictures from the Science Museum
(ScM),London;
National Railway Museum (NRM), York; National Museum of Photography,
Film
& Television (NMPFT), Bradford.
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The
Thinker ImageBase
The collections of the Fine Arts Musums of
San Francisco.
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Visual
Arts Data Service, UK.
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Russian
State Library
The Tacis library information project. Special
collections.
Links to Russian libraries. The second largest library in the world.
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S
Sackler
Library, Oxford University.
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Search engines
Findthatfile.com
Findthatfile.com's mission is to provide the most comprehensive file
search on the Internet. Common searches are for PDFs, Documents,
Audio, Video, RAR and ZIP compressed files, Fonts, and much much more.
They search as deeply as possible to identify the most relevant data
from over 300 million files.
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Gigablast Search
Engine
Gigablast
offers a variety of features including topic generation and the ability
to index multiple document formats, enabling visitors to easily refine
their search based upon related topics from search results. Gigablast
indexes
PDF, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel and Postscript documents.
Google
Book Search
Search the full text of books in major university
libraries
around the world.
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Google
Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically
for scholarly
literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints,
abstracts
and technical reports. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide
variety of academic publishers, libraries, professional societies,
preprint
repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available
across the web.
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Semantic Web search engines
SIBMAS,
the International Association of Libraries and Museums
of the Performing
Arts. An International Directory of Performing
Arts Collections and Institutions.
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Smithsonian
Institution
Libraries, archives, museums. African art, folklife,
American
Art Study Center, Archives of American Art.
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Sorbonne
University Library, Paris.
U
University
of Chicago Library
Ancient Near East, Anthropology, Art,
Architecture,
and Photography, Cinema and Media Studies Classics, Judaica and
Hebraica,
Women's Studies.
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University
of Michigan Humanities Initiative
Unrestricted, restricted
text and image collections. Reference, Bible, Early English, Middle
English,
Modern English, William Blake, Project Muse (Scholarly journals Online),
Project
Bartelby (Great Books Online), Victorian Women Writers Project.
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Vatican
Library
Catalog, secret archives, images from the Vatican
museums.
Vatican
Main Exhibition hall / Vatican
Museums/ images. Sistine Chapel treasures, Apostolic library,
galleries,
paintings, tapestries, clothing.
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Victoria
and Albert Museum Art Library
Searchable National Art Library.
Exhibitions,
internet projects, costume, design, calligraphy, book art, manuscripts,
decorative arts.
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Visual
Arts Data Service, UK.
A searchable database of images. Enter
'chairs,'
for example.
Searchable
design images from the Visual Arts Database. U
UK Literary Heritage Working Group
raising awareness of the richness of literary archives, their
tremendous creative, educational, research value and diverse uses
across a range of audiences.
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Wikipedia
entry
on Public Libraries.
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Yale
University Art and Architecture Library
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