Hampshire College

Fine Art

• Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) Images included in the AICT website are organized into five primary chronological and cultural groupings: Ancient World; Medieval; Renaissance and Baroque; 18th to 20th Century; Non-Western Cultures The images are not exhaustive, but they are of good quality and well-annotated.
• ARTstor Digital images and related data. Hundreds of thousands of images for academic use as well as a downloadable image viewer to project your images for class presentations. Click here for ARTstor system requirements.
• CAMIO RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world. Images, text, and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
• The Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield Collections A searchable database of the art collections of the Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield. Also see Museums 10, which includes information about materials in the art museums and galleries of the Five Colleges as well as other museums in the area.
• Museum of Online Museums Some very useful links to online museums and galleries in one place.
• Oxford Art Online Covers all aspects of the visual arts: architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and photography. Full text of 34-volume set of the Grove Dictionary of Art as well as the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Click on "images" along the top to search all images in Oxford Art Online.
• Web Gallery of Art "A searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 15,400 reproductions." Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available. Provides good-sized images with detailed file information.

Photographs

These sites provide a variety of photographs. Check individual sites for limitations on use.

• Art and Architecture Collections/University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections There are 5 collections in this digital library, including architecture and historic fashion. Fast, powerful search engine.
• AP Photo and Multimedia Archive Current and historical photos taken by members of the Associated Press. Includes audio files of historic speeches. NOTE: Image use is restricted to educational use only.  
• Fish and Wildlife Service National Image Library. Public domain still photographs from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Includes both high resolution and low resolution images.
• Fotosearch Contains over 1.5 million images, free to search, downloadable for PowerPoint or other uses.
• Flickr Commons Project launched in January 2008 with many participating institutions, including the Library of Congress, with the goals of showing hidden treasures in  the world's public photography archives and having viewers add tags to the photographs to help describe the images.  
• NASA Image eXchange (NIX) Search one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections using keywords. "NIX returns thumbnail sized images, textual descriptions, image numbers, links to higher resolution images, links to more information, and links to the NASA Center that stores each image." Browsing is also possible.
• National Geographic Photo of the Day Offers good quality photographs in a range of areas.
• New York Public Library Picture Collection Covers African Americans, American history, costumes, fashion drawings, dragons, animals, and other subjects, dating from the 1700s through the 1st quarter of the 20th century, including landscapes, history, people, and travel.
• New York Public Library Web Gallery of Images The NYPL's collection of prints, maps, posters, photos, sheet-music covers, dust jackets, illuminated manuscripts, menus, and cigarette cards.
• NOAA Photo Library Photographic images are from U.S. government agencies including the National Ocean Service; the National Weather Service; the National Marine Fisheries Service; the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Images include weather and space; shores and coastal seas; and marine species ranging from the great whales to the most minute plankton. Includes photos from the early nineteenth century (high resolution images available).

Search Engines

• Google Image Search The Google search engine, limited to images.
• AltaVista Image Search Can limit searches to photos, graphics, buttons/banners, color or black/white. Nice results display.
• FaganFinder List of image search engines, sorted by type (search engines; regional and historical; science; art; and clip art). Comprehensive.
• Fast Can limit results to .jpg, .gif, .bmp, color, grayscale, or line art. Click on <images> in the pulldown menu.
• Imagebase Lots of high-quality, somewhat random images. Search or browse categories such as transportation and Appalachian cultural history. From Virginia Tech.
• ImageFinder Provides search boxes for architectural images, the Berkeley Digital Library, the Library of Congress, NASA, the Smithsonian, and others. This is a fabulous collection of image databases.
• Picsearch Search for images (by size and color) and animations. Family filter is on by default and can't be disabled.

Other Image Resources

• Hampshire College Animal Behavior research page for images of animals.
• Hampshire College Art and Architecture research page.
• Hampshire College Reference Shelf Maps section: scroll down to Maps to see more resources.
• Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design  High-quality scans of renderings and sketches produced by the Motley Group from 1932-1976.  More than 5,000 items searchable by browsing the entire collection or browsing by theater or play title.
• The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh has digitized and mounted online its rare and complete set of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. Each of the 435 plates link to their respective narrative within Audubon’s companion publication, his Ornithological Biography, also digitized as part of this project. No other complete set of the double elephant folio edition of the Birds of America is publicly available online in such high detail.
• UCB Earth Sciences and Map Library Provides students, faculty, and professionals with a rich set of resources, including access to high quality documents of enormous scope. You can find aerial photography of the Yosemite Valley, a 16th-century map of Ireland, or San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake. Best for the area around California, but very good for the rest of the world too. From the University of California at Berkeley.