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E-Reference Links - General Topics - Photographs & Images
 
AdFlip
An archive of "classic print ads." Keywords: ads, advertisements, images.
American Memory Project -- Library of Congress -- Photographs and Prints
"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." Keywords: photographs, images.
American Museum of Photography
"The American Museum of Photography is an award-winning Virtual Museum dedicated to educating, informing, and sharing great photographs with millions of Internet visitors world-wide. Exhibitions are drawn from the Museum's Collection, started by Wm. B. Becker more than 30 years ago. The Collection includes five thousand individual images, from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the work of Ansel Adams." Keywords: photographs, images.
ARTstor (UNC only)
Provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Expected to contain approximately half a million images. Keywords: art, images.
George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film
A guide to the collections held in the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film -- "George Eastman House, an independent nonprofit museum, is an educational institution that tells the story of photography and motion pictures." Keywords: photographs, images.
Images Search
A collection of 20 websites that link to photos and images. Keywords: photographs, images.
Internet Public Library -- Photography Resources
A collection of websites of photography resources. Keywords: photographs, images.
Photographic Archives -- N.C. Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
"The North Carolina Collection, a department in the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began the formal development of a photographic archive in 1929. Today the Collection's photographic holdings total more than 400,000 images that include examples of all major formats from the daguerreotype of the 1840s to the contemporary." Keywords: photographs, images.
Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photographs from the National Archives
"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has surveyed the millions of photographs in its holdings and has selected 180 for an exhibition exploring the role of photography in our national life over the last century." Keywords: photographs, prints, images, national archives
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog: From the Library of Congress
While not a complete listing of the vast holdings of the Prints & Photographs Division, this catalog lists thousands of items cataloged individually or as part of groups since 1984. Direct display of most images is provided and ordering information if available. Keywords: photographs, prints. images, library of congress.
Smithsonian Photo Database
"Over the past few years the Smithsonian has been digitizing its catalogues and has been appending images to these records. The On-Line Collections site is the portal through which these collections will ultimately be accessed." Keywords: photographs, images.
Visual Collections: Images of Art, History, and Culture
View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections. Keywords: museums, art, maps, phorographs
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