Image Collections
Even more resources can be found in the Image Resource Research Guide.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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High-resolution Images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Includes a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes. Images are contributed by museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, artists, and estates, from a variety of sources including the Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts. UC campuses contribute additional images including: the Archivision Library, Saskia Art & Architecture images, the Visual Resources Collections from UCB, UCSB, UCI, UCLA, UCR, and the UCSC Library Instructional Collection.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)"The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science."
- Flickr Creative Commons"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."
- Getty Research Institute Open Content ImagesOpen access images from the Getty Research Institute.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Image and Data ResourcesOpen access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- NGA Images (National Gallery of Art)More than 45,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsMore than 210,000 of the of the items in the NYPL Digital Collections are now in the public domain
- Openverse: Creative Commons/Public Domain SearchSearches several sources of Creative Commons media, including Flickr, Google, Yahoo, and Wikimedia Commons.
- Smithsonian Institution: Open F|SMore than 40,000 works being made available for high-resolution download from the Freer and Sackler Galleries Digitized Collections and the Freer Study Collection.
- UCLA Library Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowRare and unique digital materials developed by the UCLA Library to support education, research, service, and creative expression, including the AIDS Poster Collection, the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive and more.
- UnsplashFree stock pictures.
- Wellcome ImagesIncludes high resolution images drawn from the historical holdings of the Wellcome Library, released under the Creative Commons-Attribution only (CC-BY) license.
Science Image Collections
A list of collections with images relating to the sciences.