Image Resources
Museum Image Collections Online
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Pixels:600
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The materials are made available for use without permission only for limited non-commercial personal or educational use, or for fair use as defined in the United States copyright laws.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Pixels:600
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All text and image files on this Web site are made available to the public for noncommercial, educational, and personal use only.
British Museum
Pixels:750
Private or non-commercial uses for education, academic study, scholarship or research by individuals or charities, societies, institutions or trusts, [are permitted].
The Frick Collection
Pixels:600
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This site is for personal, educational, non-commercial use only and may not be reproduced in any form without the express permission of The Frick Collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
Pixels:600
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"We are pleased to share images of objects on this Web site with the public as an educational resource."
Online Archive of California (OAC)
"The contents of the Calisphere database are made publicly available by the collection-holding repositories for use in research, teaching, and private study."
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
Pixels:500
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"The contents of this site, including all images and text, are for personal, educational, non-commercial use only."
Tate Collection
Pixels:512
"The contents of this website can be viewed for your enjoyment and so you may freely access and download the contents on a temporary basis for the sole purposes of viewing, interacting or listening to them."
Victoria and Albert Museum
Pixels: 768
"You are welcome to use the information and the images for personal use and educational purposes in print or on the web."
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Museum Websites
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Online Image Databases
ARTstor Digital Library
"ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million 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."
Web Gallery of Art
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 22,600 reproductions."
The Athenaeum Collection
With more than 40,000 artworks, the Athenaeum is a humanities database made up of user-contributed content.
California State University World Art Image Database
"The WorldImages database...contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery."
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
"AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large."
Access Ceramics
"It is designed for use by artists, arts educators, scholars and the general public, and is intended to fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web."
AP Images
"AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery."
Digital Imaging Project
"Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post modern."These are taken and posted by Mary Sullivan at Bluffton College.
White House Images
"The two hundred images presented here comprise a selection of portraits, landscapes, historical scenes, sculpture, and other works of art from the White House Collection."
National Library of Medicine Exhibitions and Digital Projects
"The Exhibition Program promotes public education about science, medicine, and history through its creation of interactive exhibitions, multimedia displays, traveling exhibitions, web sites, symposia, films, lectures, and publications."
NASA Images
"NASA Images was created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive...to bring public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource."
Hardin Library MD Medical Image Collection
This medical picture gallery is part of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.
Hardin Library John Martin Rare Book Room Images
"These unique sets of several hundred images...include illustrations relating to anatomy, physiology, surgery, obstetrics, and therapeutics."
Springer Images
"SpringerImages spans science, technology and medicine in 18 subject collections with over 1.5 million photos, graphs, histograms, tables and more."
SPIRO
"SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley."
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
"Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive, the largest of its kind in any public library system."
David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionLists institutions that have digital collections of maps, architecture, photography, and the fine arts.
Wellcome Collection
"Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science."
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
"Gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials."
Mother of All Art History Links Page
This website features links to different resources from online exhibitions to research resources.
Digital Librarian: Images
Just about anything you can imagine wanting an image of is probably listed somewhere in this vast and varied list.
Occidental Library Resources
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