ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ARTstor has developed a digital library of images (including art, architecture and archeology) and descriptive data. ARTstor also provides software tools to enable active use of the images. The tools support a wide range of uses including analyzing images, saving groups of images online, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This is a resource available only for non-commercial, educational uses.

AP (Associated Press) Images provides photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. It contains over one million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens of thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920's, and news stories dating from 1997.

TO ACCESS, YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR AN ACCOUNT BY CONTACTING Laura Grutzeck, Visual Resources Librarian

e-mail her at: lgrutzeck@uarts.edu and put MDID in the subject line

• digital image database created by the Visual Resources Library at the University of the Arts
  
• search and download high resolution images for class projects, presentations and handouts
  
• images are for educational purposes only
  
• use in MDID's Imageviewer as well as the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer, or in PowerPoint
  
• similar to the slide collection: built largely on faculty requests
  

Provides free online access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Materials from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America.

View over 12,000 images from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The collection contains images that range from ancient to contemporary, and encompass virtually all of the world’s principal cultures. Many of the images can be downloaded for educational use.

For description, see OXFORD ART ONLINE

• online catalog provides access to records from the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
  
• many of the records include digital images, about one million in all
  
• information provided on downloading or obtaining copies from the Library's Photoduplication Service
  
• excellent resource for the researcher
  
• Note: not all images in the public domain

Contains "millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera and more.

• union catalog of digital resources created by the University of Michigan
  
• provides access to records and files of digital images, audio and video from 900 contributing institutions
  
• users can search by TITLE, CREATOR or SUBJECT
  
• Most of the images are freely available for educational use
  
• Note: check the Rights information for each record for details on permitted usage

• the most comprehensive online reference resource for visual arts
  
• continually updated worldwide coverage from prehistory to the present day
  
• includes: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, photography
  
• signed articles with bibliographies
  
• includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
  
• image search includes 5,000 images from MOMA, the Met, AICT, and The Artists Rights Society; over 40,000 images from selected gallery and museum websites link to subject entries

SEARCH TIPS
If you are looking for images, note that the IMAGE SEARCH on the first screen includes only selected images; for more images, locate the text information on your topic, and click on the IMAGES tab on this screen to get related images

PHDIL, the Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library, is a grant-funded collaborative effort between the Scott Memorial Library of Thomas Jefferson University and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, containing over 3,000 images of a variety of photographs, art works, and portraits. The collection includes pre-1945 portraits of alumni, faculty, and trustees; scenes from hospitals; views of 19th and early 20th century anatomy/dissection labs, and nurses in practice. Also included are views of everyday life in Philadelphia at the turn of the century, and a number of Benjamin Ridgeway Evans watercolor drawings of Philadelphia buildings and streetscapes during the mid 19th century.

Stock.XCHNG is a collection of over 350,000 free stock photos. Sign up for a free account in order to save, tag, and download high quality images.

Over 100,000 art and design images are available for use in learning, teaching, and research. Create an account to save and download images from the available collections.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 14,500 reproductions.