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Finding Images
AHDS Visual Arts
A UK national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities. The site provides images on the following subject areas: Visual Arts; Performing Arts; Archaeology; History; Literature, Language and Linguistics.
http://ahds.ac.uk/visualarts
Art & Architecture
More than 40,000 images here, and a network of over half a million links. There are amazing and wonderful things to find, and any number of ways of finding them.
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk
Artists Talking Image Bank
Over 8000 images of work by contemporary UK and international artists which have appeared in AN - The Artist Information Company publications since 2000. The images can be used for personal, non-commercial purposes.
http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/image_bank/listing
Art Resource
A fully searchable commercial image bank of over 100,000 art images aimed at providing images for publishers, advertising, web sites, etc.
www.artres.com
ARTstor
Digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
Campus only http://www.artstor.org
Bridgeman Art Library
A commercial image bank of fine art images sourced from museums, private art collections and artists throughout the world.
www.bridgeman.co.uk
British Cartoon Archive
This is the online database of the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent (formerly known as the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature). It is free to use, and is maintained by the University as a research tool for academics and others interested in the history of British political and social cartooning.
This database is principally a guide to the British Cartoon Archive's holdings of cartoon cuttings and original artwork. It contains more than 120,000 catalogued cartoons, mostly from the last hundred years. It is the largest cartoon database in the world, but still represents only a fraction of the archive.
http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/ccc.py
British Library Online Gallery
Provides access to thousands of images from the British Library collections which include manuscripts, rare books and maps spanning almost 3000 years.
www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/homepage.html
British Universities Newsreel Database
The world's leading resource for the study of newsreels and cinemagazines
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/newsreels
Camio
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. Art images from prominent museums - prehistoric to contemporary times.
Athens access
Collect Britain
Putting history in place: over 90,000 images and sounds from the UK and beyond
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk
Education Image Gallery
EIG gives access to 50,000 images. Subjects covered include: history, entertainment, sport, science, fashion, politics, music, conflict, film, art, leisure and women's studies. The images are available for downloading in screen-resolution format.
Athens access
Flickr
Flickr is a site provided by the Yahoo! company to enable you to organise and share your photos with others. You can use it for free by registering for a basic account.
www.flickr.com
Free Images
More than 2500 original stock photos all for FREE
http://www.freeimages.co.uk
Getty Images
Getty Images is one of the largest image banks in the world. Although Getty Images is a commercial enterprise and charges for the use of most images, this website enables you to search their collection and includes a small royalty-free section.
http://creative.gettyimages.com
Historical Photographs of China
This project aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China.
http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
Images from the History of Medicine
This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov
Images of England
You can view over 300,000 images of England’s built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as thousands of bridges, historic houses and churches.
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk
London Transport Museum
Collections of images from the London Transport Museum
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/default.aspx
The National Gallery Collection Online
The entire National Gallery permanent collection and long-term loans are illustrated and described on this web site.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection
NICE Paintings
The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings contains information and digital images of European paintings from 1200 to 1900, which are held in British collections. It was created by the National Inventory Research Project to gather and present information about Britain's public art collections.
http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/NIRP
Newsfilm online
News clips from the ITN/Reuters archive dating from the early twentieth century onwards which are licensed for you to download free and edit for your academic studies. You can browse by decade or theme, or search the collection by keyword. Clips will be available from ITN, Gaumont, Universal and Paramount.
http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk
SCRAN
Database of 325,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media.
Athens access
Tate Online
This web site is a database of information on every work held by the Tate Galleries, with illustrations of most works. The collection consists of over 65,000 works of art encompassing British art from 1500, and the national collection of international modern art.
www.tate.org.uk
VADS
The online resource for visual arts
http://vads.bath.ac.uk
Viewfinder
The photographs on ViewFinder are all held by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage. They date from the 1850s and are a resource for people interested in England's social, industrial, architectural and archaeological history.
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk
Wellcome Images
The Wellcome Trust has made its vast collection of images depicting 2000 years of medicine and mankind available for free under a Creative Commons Licence. This allows users to copy, distribute and display the images, provided the source is fully attributed and it is used for non-commercial purposes.
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
http://www.wdl.org/en/
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