Image archives

aeiou - Österreichisches Bilder-Album
Bildmaterial zur Geschichte und Kultur Österreichs vom Mittelalter bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs

American Memory - The Library of Congress
Collections of photos and prints

Antikensammlung - Photosammlung zur antiken Kunst
Universität Erlangen

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
Photographs by Samuel Gotscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955

Architecture in India - Photographs by N. Raja, New Delhi
Hindu Temple Architecture, Dravadian Temple Architecture, Buddhist Temple Architecture, Jain Temple Architecture, Sikh Temple Architecture, Islamic Architecture

Architekturzeichnungen des 17. bis 20. Jahrhunderts
Online-Katalog in der Graphischen Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen Kassel

Architekturzeichnungen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Sammlung des Architekturmuseums an der TU Berlin, Architekturzeichnungen überwiegend preußischer Architekten dieser Zeit, derzeit über 100.000 Abbildungen

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
Bilddatenbank des Bildarchivs Foto Marburg, derzeit ca. 1,6 Millionen Abbildungen

CGFA - Carol Gerten's Fine Art
A Virtual Art Museum

Chicago Daily News Archive (1902-1933)
Images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933

Chicago Imagebase - University of Illinois, Chicago
Web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region

Deutsche Fotothek in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)
Universalarchiv der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte mit den Schwerpunkten Kunst-, Architektur- und Musikgeschichte, Regionalkunde Sachsen, Geographie sowie Technik- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Digital Archive of American Architecture - Boston College
Nearly 1,500 digitized images of American architecture from the 17th century to the present; color slides copyright Prof. Jeffery Howe

Digital Archive of European Architecture - Boston College
Online archive of images scannes from a collection of slides for educational use; color slides copyright Prof. Jeffery Howe

Digital Gallery of Images - New York Public Library (NYPL)
Provides 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

Digital Imaging Project - Mary Ann Sullivan, Buffton University
More than 11,000 Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern

Digital Photograph Catalog - Montclair New Jersey Free Public Library
Invaluable image database for people doing research on Montclair, New Jersey

Early Omaha: Gateway to the West
Collections of albums, art work, lantern slides, maps, photos, postcards, stereoviews

Graphische Sammlung im Stift Göttweig - Österreichs größte Privatsammlung historischer Graphiken

Historic Pittsburgh
Collections and archives of three local cultural institutions

"Images for Academic Publishing" (IAP) - Initially approached by the Metropolitan Museum in 2005 to develop this initiative, ARTstor has worked in close consultation with Metropolitan Museum staff to create this new service, which will make images available via software on the ARTstor Web site (www.artstor.org). Initially, nearly 1,700 images representative of the broad range of the Metropolitan Museum's encyclopedic collection will be available through the more than 730 institutions that currently license ARTstor.

JOCONDE - Catalogue des collections des musees de France
Archéologie, beaux-arts, arts décoratifs, ethnologie, histoire, sciences et techniques

La Guardia and Wagner Archives
Online photo collections of New York

Lambeth Palace Library
Digitized church plans

Louvre - Atlas
Datenbank der ausgestellten Kunstwerke

Mémoire - base iconographique
Bilddatendank, die französisches Kulturgut in Archiven festhält und archäologische und historische Denkmäler zeigt

NICE Paintings - The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings

NUTRIAS - Foto-Archiv der New Orleans Public Library
Louisiana Division, City Archives and Special Collections

Online Archive of California - Part of the University of California's California Digital Library
Searches can be made in six categories: history, nature, people, places, society, technology

Photo RMN
Photothek der französischen Nationalmuseen

Photothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz

prometheus - Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung und Lehre e. V.
Kostenloses Angebot an Lehrende und Studierende, um die neuen Lernformen der digitalen Medien in der Präsenzlehre erproben zu können

REALonline - Digitaler Bildserver des IMAREAL
(Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Forschungseinrichtung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History - University of Virginia
Slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall

RLG Digital Image Access Project (DIAP) - Columbia University
Architectural and Construction Photographs and Images

Robertson Media Center
Image Collections, University of Virginia Library

Rotch Visual Collections - Exploring Image Collections on the Internet: Resources at MIT and beyond
Overview of resources for images - from archaeology, architecture and art to urban design

SAH Image Exchange
Pilot project - deals with landmarks of American architecture, 1850-99. Set of images meant for teaching architectural history.

SILS Art Image Browser, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan
Database of art, architectural, and museum object images

SPIRO - Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online - University of California, Berkeley
Architecture Visual Resources Library: 225,000 35mm slides of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, art and design, and related fields

The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life - Photograph Collection at Baker Library

The Kidder Smith Slide Archives on American Architecture
Collection of 3,400 Kodachromeslides which document ten centuries of architecture in the United States

the photography collection - Western History / Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library
Major collection of photography documenting the development of the American West

Virtual Detroit
Compendium of photos from two of the Motor City's daily newspapers

VIVA (Visual Index to the Virtual Archive) - The Skyscraper Museum
Innovative visually-based interface that uses a 3-D computer model of Manhattan as a click-on map, allowing Web visitors to view the city, present and past, as well as to access a collection of nearly 900 postcards through an online, searchable database

Web Gallery of Art - Budapest (Hungary)
Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 14.500 reproductions

1200 anni di Scultura italiana
Bildsammlung auf www.thais.it zu italienischer Bildhauerkunst aus 1200 Jahren

40 secoli di Architettura
Bildsammlung auf www.thais.it zu ägyptischer, griechischer, islamischer, römischer, byzantinischer, armenischer, gotischer und romanischer Architektur aus 40 Jahrhunderten



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last updated: 2009-08-06