Finding Digital Images
Digital Image Collections Available from the UW Libraries
- UW Image Bank (UW Restricted) - Images of cultural production from diverse time periods and world cultures, and major monuments of world art and architectural history.
- AP Photo Archive (UW Restricted) - Millions of news photographs dating back to 1826, more than one million audio sound bytes dating from the 1920's, among other digital resources.
- CAMIO RLG's catalog of art museum images online (UW Restricted) - Includes photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry, and costumes.
- Corbis images for education (UW Restricted) - Historical, fine art, science, and nature images from the Bettmann Archive, United Press International, and the Hulton Deutsch Collection.
- UW Digital Collections - Includes photographs, documents, and audiovisual resources from the UW Libraries, UW faculty and departments, and from organizations who have partnered with the UW on collaborative projects.
General Digital Image Collections
- American Memory Project - A multimedia website of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress. More than 100 collections and 9 million individual items are available.
- NYPL Digital Gallery - "Provides access to over 337,000 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."
- Online Archive of California - Provides access to an array of historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives.
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Subject-specific Digital Collections
- Advertising - Digitized images of historical advertising
- Architecture - Photographs and blueprints of buildings throughout the world
- Art - Scanned copies of artwork
- Maps - Collections of maps and cartographic information available digitally
- Medicine - Image collections for the health sciences
- Photography - Digital copies of current and historical photographs
- Science - Images collections for the natural and physical sciences
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