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From Simmons Library Research Guides
We have selected these resources to help you find relevant information on your research topic. Please contact a librarian for help using the resources listed in this guide or for help with your research process.
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Digital Image Collections
- ARTstor
Simmons Eresource
ARTstor is an online database of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. It is also used by faculty in the Art Department who may create their own image collections and create presentations for class.
- The New York Public Library Picture Collection
Free Online
The NYPL Picture Collection Online presents more than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
- The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Free Online
The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 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.
- The Library of Congress American Memory Project
Free Online
The American Memory Project provides access to multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections.
- Insights Visual Collections
Free Online
This collection includes images from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world. The collection features images relating to cartography, fine arts, architecture and photography.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Simmons Eresource
"This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools." The site brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document women’s reform activities.
Click on "Images" in the left-hand column for access to hundreds of images from 1760 - 2001, grouped by year.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Simmons Eresource
This resource is an extremely useful encyclopedia that gives a valuable overview of almost any topic. There is a Year in Review section that covers the major events of different years.
Limit to "multimedia" in the advanced search screen to view images and other media files.
- Image Collection in Academic Search Complete
Simmons Eresource
Click "Images" on vertical menu bar to search the image collection in Academic Search Complete. This is a small collection of high-resolution images including photos of people, places, natural science, and historic subjects; as well as maps and flags.
- New York Times
Level 1 Reference AI21.N4 N44 and Simmons Eresource
The New York Times Historical database offers full-text and full-image articles from The New York Times. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue - cover to cover - in downloadable PDF files. Use the database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
- Getty Images
Free Online
Getty Images allows you to search archival picture and film collections, including the Hulton Picture Archive, National Geographic, Time Life, Bridgeman Art Library.
Art Image Collections
- Art Cyclopedia
Free Online
As both an art encyclopedia and an image database, Artcyclopedia offers overviews of artists and movements with links to online images. The collection is browsable by artist name, medium, subject, nationality and movement.
- Timeline of Art History
Free Online
The Metropolitan Muesum of Art provides chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, with description and images in each entry.
- Grove Dictionary of Art Images Collection
Simmons Eresource
Grove Art Online is pleased to direct you to a variety of excellent art image collections. Art Resource, Bridgeman Art Library and Art Image Links provide searchable image collections covering hundreds of areas in the visual arts.
- Art Info
Free Online
Art Info allows you to search for art galleries by type of art or location of the gallery. You can limit your search to galleries with online inventories to view art of a particular type or time period.
- Museum of Online Museums
Free Online
This site links to established museum and gallery websites.
- Web Gallery of Art
Free Online
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850). The collection is searchable by artist, title of work, time period, form and type. Some entries include picture commentaries and artist biographies.
- Sotheby's
Free Online
As the oldest, continually operated auction house, Sotheby's holds auctions for important works of art. Their website includes images and descriptions of the items for sale and is useful for finding art images.
- Christie's
Free Online
As a leading fine arts auction house, Christie's holds auctions for many different works of art. Their website includes images and descriptions of the items for sale and allows you to browse the artwork by sale categories.
Searching the Web
Any of the following search engines can assist you in finding images on the web. These search engines allow you to limit your search by page size, file type, and color:
- Google Image Search
Free Online
The Advanced Search feature of Google Image Search allows you to choose between news content or faces in your image search
- Ask.com Image Search
Free Online
The Image Search from Ask.com is useful because it suggests ways to expand or narrow your search
