The VRC and AMICO collections are also available using a browser version of Insight, click on the collection name for connection information.

VISUAL RESOURCES COLLECTION The Yale Visual Resources Collection (formerly known as the Slides and Photographs Collection) is more than sixty years old and was formed to support teaching at Yale. The Collection is composed of more than 300,000 slides and nearly 200,000 mounted photographs, presently housed in Street Hall, and a growing collection of digital images. The Yale University Arts Library administers both the physical and the virtual collections. Both collections evolve in response to curricular needs. Principal users of the Collection include the History of Art Department and the professional Schools of Art, Architecture, and Drama, but the department serves the entire Yale community. There are currently over 22,000 images available via Insight in the VRC Collection. THE AMICO Library The AMICO Library consists of over 90,000 digital images of works of art from ancient to contemporary times representing world-wide cultural heritage. Types of works include paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, textiles, costumes and jewelry, works of decorative art, architecture, books and manuscripts, multimedia works, installations, and digital art. At present, the majority of works date from 1800. The AMICO Library represents a growing collection of digital multimedia documenting works of art in the collections of AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium) members. The AMICO membership currently includes over 30 leading museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. BEINECKE DIGITAL COLLECTION Over 3,000 images from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library are currently available via Insight. THE DAVID RUMSEY MAP COLLECTION The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online selection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. The digital images and associated descriptive data are © Cartography Associates. JAPANESE HISTORICAL MAP COLLECTION The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. Represented in this online collection are a selection of maps and books from the collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. The project was initiated by Peter Zhou, Director of the East Asian Library. Funding and project management was provided by the East Asian Library and David Rumsey. When the University of California at Berkeley purchased the Mitsui Library from the Mitsui family in 1949, included among the 100,000 items was a collection of 2,298 maps which had been assembled by Mitsui Takakata (penname: Soken) (1882-1950), the 9th head of the Shinmachi branch of the family. The most unusual part of the collection is the 697 woodblock-print maps (and a few dozen manuscript maps) dating from the Tokugawa period (1600-1867). Especially rare is a selection of 252 maps of the city of Edo (modern Tokyo), 79 of Kyoto, and 40 of Osaka, and 30 of other cities such as Kanazawa, Nagoya, Nagasaki, and Yokohama. Among the earliest maps are Osaka (1656), Kyoto (1654-68), and Edo of 1676. In collecting Meiji period (1868-1912) maps as well, Mitsui Soken displayed his antiquarian interest by concentrating on the earlier decades: most of the maps date from the period before 1890 and many are printed on handmade paper, a considerable number from woodblocks. Among the Meiji maps are 240 of Tokyo, 112 of Kyoto, 89 of Osaka, and 312 of other cities.

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