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Image Title: Tamaya uchi Komurasaki, Kochô, Haruji = [Komurasaki of the Tamaya, [kamuro:] Kochô, Haruji]
Creator: Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 -- Artist
Medium: color woodcut
Specific Material Type: Prints
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Robert John Thornton
New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus . . ., 1807
Date of Image:N/A
Caption on Image:The Queen Flower
Other Subject Terms for this Image:
bird of paradise
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Title: Gillette
Collection: Eckersley Archive: University of the Arts London
Designer: Tom Eckersley
Date: 1960
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Title: System (turquoias)
Series Title: Systems
Artist: David Hicks
Date: 2008
Technique: handbuilt
Temperature: low-fire
Glazing / Surface Treatment: glaze
Material: Terra Cotta
Object Type: Sculpture
License: Attribution License
Open Access Image Collections on the Web
Collections of digital images freely accessible to the public.
- Access Ceramics
a growing collection of contemporary ceramics images by recognized artists enhancing ceramics education worldwide - Art Images Online Collections of free images sources online including paintings, photography, works by women, architecture, and more.
- Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century. - Calisphere - "The University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources." Over 150,000 digitized items including photographs, newspaper, political cartoons, works of art, transcribed oral histories, and other unique cultural artifacts from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses and a variety of cultural heritage organizat
- Digital Image Collections Wikispaces The Digital Images Collections Wiki is a resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal or educational purposes.
- Flickr- The Commons World's public photography collection/archive. Library of Congress, various museums, and libraries have also posted photographs for you to view.
- Galaxy of Images Contains a portion of the more than 1.5 million printed books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- GLOPAD GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.
- Google Images
- Internet for Image Searches
- Library of Congress Flickr Groups With the launch of the Library of Congress pilot, Flickr began a new initiative called "The Commons." Cultural heritage institutions that join The Commons are sharing images from their photographic collections that have no known copyright restrictions.
- Luna Commons a new source for finding valuable, educational content from digital collections built in the Insight Software from Luna Imaging, Inc. and presented in Insight's dynamic new LUNA browser.
- NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
- Old Images of Asia A growing collection of annotated and tagged colour and B&W old
postcards' photographs and lithographs - Rumsey’s Visual Collections Over 300,000 images from over 50 collections including maps, artwork, and photographs that are both free and subscription based collections. All collections are presented in Insight.
- San Franciso Historical Photograph Collection contains photographs and works on paper of San Francisco and California views from 1850 to the present. More about the collection
- Visual Resources Online (links to digital image collections) Online Visual resources of image collections and online art courtesy of the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. Catagories include: Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography |
- The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Online Image Collections
VADS has provided services to the academic community for 11 years and has built up a portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching and research. - Wellesley Image Wiki The Digital Images Collections Wiki is a resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal or educational purposes.
- WIkipedia Public Domain Image Resources
- Wikimedia Commons A database of 3,346,310 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
- World Digital Library
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This list of online image collections is by no means comprehensive.
If you are having trouble locating images that you need, please consult with Virginia Allison, Research Librarian for Visual Arts at: v.allison@uci.edu
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