Research Guides: READ 5305: Photos

Online Resources for Photos

ARTstor
NOTE: As of August 2024, ARTstor is now integrated with JSTOR. This link currently redirects you to the new website, but soon you will just link to JSTOR.
A digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Includes photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
National Archives Digital Photography Collections
Digital photographs divided into general, 19th Century, 20th Century, and 21st Century., with special collections such as photographs related to Japanese Relocation During World War II, pictures of the Civil War, and NASA images.
Portal to Texas History
Limit your search to photos to find over 180,000 images related to Texas.
Biblioteca National de Mexico
Digital Collections of the National Library of Mexico
British Library Images
The British Library houses a massive collection of photographs and digitized sources from Great Britain and it's United Kingdom Colonies.
World Images
Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. Though each section provides both an overview and subsequent links, the links are to other pages.
Smart Medical Art
1000s of high-quality medical pictures produced as vector images for Powerpoint. Non-commercial use is free.
Body Maps
An interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D.

This is a product by HealthLine - a US privately-owned provider of online health information.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
Images of art and architectural works in the public domain made available on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. Emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture.
Artsy Education
An educational resource containing 85,000+ digital images of artworks and architecture (25,000+ downloadable) , including one of the largest collections of contemporary art. Offers tips related to downloading, exploring, and teaching with digital images.