Digital Images

LUNA Digital Image Collections

• Search over 380,000 images, including:
  • Images from the Saskia Gardner's Art through the Ages art history set.
  • The AMICA Library, which contains over 114,000 works of art from the collections of contributing museums.
  • Architectural photographs, gardens and landscapes, political Americana, historical maps, fashion plate collections and much more.
• LUNA tutorials provide information on navigating LUNA, creating Media Groups, and more. Tutorials include:
  • How-to Guide: Getting Started with LUNA (PDF)
  • Introduction to LUNA Media Groups (PDF)
  • Introduction to LUNA Presentations (PDF)
• The following LUNA Search Guides are available:
  • History of Fashion Search Guide
  • Master Drawings Search Guide
  • Photography History and Concepts Search Guide

Additional Digital Image Collections

AP Images

• Features current editorial and historic photographs from the Associated Press.
• Includes sports, financial, entertainment, and U.S. and international news photos.

EBSCO Cinema Image Gallery

• Includes over 150,000 superior-quality images and over 4,000 poster art and lobby cards.
• Includes still images of films in production, directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design, in addition to hair and make-up shots and rare behind-the-scenes material.

Visual Arts Data Services (VADS)

• Contains over 100,000 images that are copyright cleared for educational and research usage.
• Images are organized into 44 distinct collections that range from textiles to graphic design to photography.

Stock.XCHNG

• Free stock photography database with access to hundreds of thousands of high-quality, handpicked stock photos and graphics.
• Activation of a personal membership account is required for full access but there is no cost to join.

Flickr Commons

• Access to hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives.
• You're invited to help describe the photographs you discover, either by adding tags or leaving comments.

Wikimedia Commons

• Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content, including images, sound and video clips.

Google LIFE Photo Archive

• Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.

Google’s Art Project

• A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.
• Virtually move around the museum’s galleries using Google’s Street View technology.

Library of Congress American Memory Project

• Free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

• Contains digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress.

The Internet Archive

• Provides access to a wide variety of texts, audio, moving images, software, and archived web pages.
• Special projects include the Wayback Machine, Open Library, and the Live Music Archive.

World Digital Library

• The World Digital Library (WDL) makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site.

Europeana

• Explore millions of digital resources from Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections, including images, texts, sound, and videos.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

• Includes free and open access to over 700,000 images.
• Includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

California State Library Picture Catalog Collections

• Search a selection of photographs and historic images from the California State Library's rich collections of photographs, prints, drawings, and sheet music.

California State University (CSU) WorldImages

• Contains over 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
• For convenience the images are organized into over 800 portfolios that appear alphabetically in the Portfolio List.

Manzanita Image Project

• A curated collection of natural images from the California Academy of Sciences Library.
• Free for educational, personal, or non-profit use.

National Gallery of Art: NGA Images

• NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
• More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.

Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center

• Search thousands of images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

Getty Research Institute Digital Collections

• The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute focuses on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology with relevant materials in the humanities and social sciences.
• Includes collections from prehistory to contemporary art.

George Eastman House Photography Collections Online

• A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource for the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)

• A personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl.
• Images have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature.

Digital Imaging Project, Bluffton University

• Historical images of sculpture and architecture, from pre-historic to post-modern, photographed by Mary Ann Sullivan, Professor Emerita of English and Art History, Bluffton University.