Digital Images
AC Sources |Metasites | Search Engines | Arts & Humanities | Sciences | Maps
Amherst College Image Sources/Resources
Image Database (AC only) Digital images from the Amherst College Visual Resources Collection along with links to many museum and fine art image collections.
Amherst College Library Digital Collections (AC only) Our new and expanding database of digital materials.
Guide to the Use of Scanning Station in the Visual Resources Collection in Fayerweather
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive: Database of Associated Press photographs and text dating back to 1826, extensive graphics files, and audio files dating back to the 1920s.
Archive & Special Collections Online Exhibitions Digital exhibits of Amherst College history.
Mead Art Museum Digital images from the Mead Art Museum.
ARTstor (AC only)
Grove Art Online (AC only) A great place to find the images and information on artists and their art.
Metasites
Specialized Search Engines
ditto.com Visual search engine.
SavvySearch: Images Metasite that searches AV Photo Finder, Scour.net, Yahoo Image Surfer, Lycos Picture Search.
AltaVista Can restrict to images or search on image:keyword. Restricting to images displays results as thumbnails, but image:keyword can retrieve additional items.
Berkeley's ImageFinder Maintained by University of California at Berkeley, this site provides search access to multiple databases of images on the web.
Arts & Humanities
American Century A multimedia exhibit exploring milestones in American arts and culture of the 20th Century. Produced by the Whitney Museum.
American Memory A Libray of Congress project and one of the largest collections of visual images on the Internet.
American Museum of Photography
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) Access to image sources for the educational community.
Artcyclopedia Guide to museum pieces on the web, by artist.
Art History Resources on the Web Excellent organization to many art sites by place and period. Includes "Gateway to Art History" compiled for use with "Gardner's Art Through the Ages". Complied by Christopher Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.
ARTstor (AC only)
Grove Art Online (AC only) A great place to find the images and information on artists and their art.
Imagebase From the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (The M.H. de Young Memorial and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor).
Images of History on the Web Excellent article with numerous links to sources of historical photographs on the web.
National Archives and Records Administration Digital copies of selected textual documents, photographs, maps, and sound recordings. Although ARC contains more than 390,800 descriptions and 126,000 digital copies, it represents only a limited portion of NARA's vast holdings.
NYPL Digital Gallery 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.
PBS Images, video and audio clips from many PBS programs.
Perseus A textual and visual collection of Arcahic and Classical Greece materials. Expanded to now include Latin and Renaissance materials.
Smithsonian Institution This collection of images covers topics from art, air and space, nature, technology, history and current events.
Treasures of Europe's National Libraries A virtual exhibit with treasures from all over Europe going back to the 8th Century.
Web Gallery of Art European paintings and sculpture of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700).
WebMuseum, Paris An artist list linking to selected digital images. Focus is on European and American artists from the Gothic period to the 20th Century. Maintained by Nicolas Pioch.
WWW Virtual Library: Museums Links to museums around the world by country.
Sciences
Primer on Molecular Genetics Developed by the Department of Energy with graphics on basic genetics.
Biotech Graphics Gallery Excellent site for illustrations of cells, chromosones, RNA, DNA, genes etc.
NASA Photo Gallery Central sites for various NASA images.
Virtual LibraryAstronomy Excellent list of many different astronomical pictures.
Online Images from the History of Medicine Digital exhibits from the National Library of Medicine.
Maps
UT Map Collection Large collection of digital maps from around the world, includes CIA maps.
World Map Collection (from World Press Review) Great collection of U.S. and world maps.
Cultural Maps Digitized maps, current and historic of the United States, from the University of Virginia.
Digital Atlas of the United States Demographic information from the 1990 Census for the U.S., California, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Boston, MA.
Amherst College Map of campus.
Five College Transit Maps and Schedules
TerraServer Microsoft site with USGS topographical maps with Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) interface. Also has relief mapsand DOQs.
Geographic Names Information Server contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the database is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. Also, links to the Foreign Geographic Names Database.
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