Digital Image Resources

Based on:
Yale University Library ImageFinder Database:http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/if.asp
YUL Arts Library Finding Images Page: http://www.library.yale.edu/art/imageresources.html

• Collections developed for ELI courses:
• Historical New Haven Digital Collection: http://www.library.yale.edu/newhavenhistory/
  Contains over 700 images of historical New Haven, as well as over 75 documents containing key census information and other data from New Haven over the past 150 years. An extensive map section on the website facilitates comparison of maps of New Haven from different time periods.
• African American Studies Digital Collection: http://images.library.yale.edu/hollowaydl/
• 'Cities, Suburbs and the Culture of Sprawl': Cities, Suburbs and the Culture of Sprawl Digital Collection (Restricted to class use only)
  Over 200 images from Professor Hayden's book Building Suburbia : Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 were digitized.
• Beinecke databases:
• Digital Collections Database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/brbldl/ (20,000 images scanned from originals at Beinecke)
• Photonegatives Collection Database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/photonegatives/  (21,000 images scanned from negatives or color transparencies)
• Marinetti Libroni: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/  (23,000 press clippings and images from F.T. Marinetti's scrapbooks on Futurism.)
• Yale Papyrus Collection: http://highway49.library.yale.edu/papyrus/
• Divinity Library databases:
• Divinity Digital Image and Text Library http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/index.jsp:
• EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies: http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/eikon/index.jsp (3,000+ images of places and objects related to the Bible and ancient Near East)
• AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity: http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/adhoc/index.jsp (500+ images categorized)
• China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database: http://research.yale.edu:8084/ydlchina/index.jsp (8,000+ images related to higher education in China)
• Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection: http://lwlimages.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/
• Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID) http://mssa.library.yale.edu/madid/ (digital reproductions of photographs, posters, drawings, text documents, and other images taken from the research collections of Manuscripts and Archives)
• New Haven Health: http://www.med.yale.edu/newhavenhealth/photos/ (Includes: Health Care in New Haven and Scenes from City of New Haven)
• Visual Resources Collection:   http://insight.library.yale.edu:5000/BrowserInsight/BrowserInsight

• Image databases:
• AMICO Library (90,000 digital images of works of art; via Insight)
• ARTstor
• Associated Press Photo Archive (AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.)
• Index to Christian Art (approximately 200,000 photographic reproductions of Christian art)
• Insight collections: David Rumsey Map Collection; Japanese Historical Map Collection; MoMA Digital Design Collection, VRC
• Images included amidst other material:
• Ad*Access Project
• American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
• American National Biography
• American Periodical Series
• Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (1534-1850)
• Evans Digital Edition (17^th & 18^th century America)
• Farber Gravestone Collection
• Grove Dictionary of Art
• Harper's Magazine and Cumulative Index
• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1865)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 - 2000

Selected Free collections of images:

• Google Images: http://www.google.com/images “The most comprehensive image search on the web”

• Art-related:
• Art History Resources on the Web: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
• Art Images for College Teaching: http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/
• Artcyclopedia: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
• ArtServe: Australian National Library http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
• National Gallery of Art: http://www.nga.gov/collection/srchart.htm
• Web Gallery of Art: http://gallery.euroweb.hu/

• Historical / Cultural:
  • Ad*Access Project: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/   (images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements)
  • American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/  90+ collections from Library of Congress project, including:
    • The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
    • Small-Town America: 1850-1920
    • Selected Civil War Photographs
    • History of the American West, 1860-1920
  • ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative: http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/ (Phase One includes ancient coins, papyri, medieval church architecture, Reformation-era engravings, Armenian manuscripts, photographs re. practice of Islam, material re. John Wesley, maps documenting expansion of Christianity)
  • Collage: http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk (20,000 images from Guildhall Library and Art Gallery in London)
  • Connecticut History Online: http://www.cthistoryonline.org/index.html (14,000 images of photographs, drawings, and prints)
  • Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/  (includes: 56,652 Greek and Roman images; 8525 images from Bolles Collection on the History of London)
  • Photo Archive of the New York Daily News: http://www.dailynewspix.com/

Directory of Digital Image Collections:

• Clearinghouse of Image Databases: http://clearinghouse.ltc.arizona.edu/search.asp

Photo Agencies and Commercial sites:

• Black Star
• Corbis
• Epictura Image Bank - Stock photography and Illustration (Online searchable library of royalty free images. Collections of CDRoms and instant download of high resolution, ready to use photographs and illustrations.)
• Getty Images
• Liaison Agency
• New York Times. Photos & Graphics
• TimePix