Image Collections
Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project provides access to digital images of over 7000 print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957
Ancient Near East photograph collection
Contains over 350 images of archaeological sites, artifacts and structures from the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Israel, dating from 3000 BCE to 200 CE
Armchair travel in India c1900 the stereoscopic experience
This Web site contains 103 stereoscopic views from a set which is in the Ames Library of South Asia
Asian historical architecture a photographic survey
"A photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view over 6500 photos of 461 sites in seventeen countries, with background information and virtual tours."
Chinese cultural studies images /
Images selected to accompany the Brooklyn College course Core 9 Chinese Culture include images of maps, art, historical sites, archaeology, divinities, stereotypes, and technology
Chinese in California 1850-1925 /
"The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California from 1850 to 1925 through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California."
Creswell archive
Contains images taken by K.A.C. Creswell, an eminent pioneer of medieval Islamic architectural history, who bequested his negative collection to the Ashmolean Museum Department of Eastern Art. Many of these images were used to illustrate Creswell's Early Muslim Architecture, and Muslim Architecture of Egypt
Department of the Environment and Heritage's online image database
This image database contains images the Australian Dept. of the Environment and Heritage owns and that are copyright cleared and available free of charge for use by the media, students, and industry organizations (but not for use in advertising or other commercial purposes). Includes links to other Dept. of the Environment and Heritage image databases
Don Bain's virtual guidebooks
"This site features nearly 3000 virtual reality panoramas. These amazing photographs show you exactly what it is like to be in a particular spot - you can look in any direction, as well as up and down, and zoom in and out. It's the next best thing to being there."
Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India Filma Prabhaga
The Films Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting maintains an archive of Indian films (8,000 documentaries, short films, and animation films) and provides facilities for motion picture production. The Web site contains information on programs and activities such as the Mumbai International Film Festival, press releases, recent annual report and information about the archives and production facilities. There are also short films and clips available via streaming video
Flora Danica online
This site consists of digitized images of 3,240 copper-engraved plates from the Flora Danica, a collection of folio-sized pictures of wild plants in Denmark that was compiled between 1761 and 1874. The database is searchable by keyword or browseable by plate number or date
G.I. Jones photographic archive of southeastern Nigerian art and culture
Archive of more than 300 photographs taken during the 1930s by G.I. Jones of the University of Cambridge
Gold rush centennial photographs, 1893-1916 a catalog of selected gold rush views at the Alaska State Library /
Photos of life in the Klondike during the gold rush, from the collection at the Alaska State Library
Harappa glimpses of South Asia before 1947
Photographs, lithographs, slides, movies, and sounds are presented, focusing on primarily two historical periods of Indian history, the last century or so of the Raj and the Indus Valley civilization
Henry M. Sarvant photograph collection, ca. 1890s-1910
The collection consists of images taken by surveyor and photographer Henry Mason Sarvant. The first section is comprised of photographs taken by Sarvant between 1892 and 1913 of Mount Rainier and its vicinity. Also included are approximately 25 photographs taken by Sarvant's friend, landscape photographer and mountain climber A.H. Waite. The second group of photographs, taken between 1897 and 1901, documents Sarvant's time in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Included are images of mining practices and equipment, towns, camps, landscape scenes, and Native American settlements
Hudson's Bay Company digital collection Collection numerisee de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson
Exhibit of images of artifacts of Canadian history, particularly aboriginal cultures and exploration
IDP International Dunhuang Project
An international collaboration to present more than 100,000 pre-11th century manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites. Items are include bibliographies, maps, photographs, etc., each searchable in a variety of ways
Image database of Ukiyoe and Edo castle
Images from the Philippine-United States War
Photographs, illustrations, and maps from the turn-of-the-century war
In a new light Australian photography 1930s-2000 : a National Library of Australia exhibition
Online overview of an exhibition of photographs from the National Library of Australia's Picture Collection, held at the National Library of Australia, 2 Dec. 2004-28 Mar. 2005
Japanese ant image database
Japanese historical maps
The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are about 100 maps and books from this Collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. The project was initiated by Peter Zhou, Director of the East Asian Library. Funding and project management is provided by Cartography Associates and the East Asian Library
Panoramas the North American landscape in art = el paisaje de Norte America en el arte = paysages d'Amerique du Nord dans l'art
Part of the Virutal Museum of Canada, Panoramas is a repository of Mexican, Canadian and American artwork influenced by the North American Landscape
PICAS window to our past imagery /
Picture Archives Singapore is a text and image retrieval system on the Web developed by the National Archives of Singapore
Robert Henry Chandless photographs, ca. 1898-1908
Nine albums of photographs and loose photographic prints taken by various photographers and collected by Robert Chandless. The collection, documenting early 20th-century China, includes candid scenes and tourist views of Peking and Tientsin; foreign legations and private residences of American, British, and other diplomatic personnel; the wool industry in Tientsin; and contemporary views of the Boxer Rebellion (1900), including images of the international relief force of soldiers and sailors that came to the aid of the besieged foreign delegations in Peking and elsewhere
Salmon collection
"The Salmon collection contains documents, photographs and other original material describing the roots of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Material specific to this collection is comprised of text drawn from the pamphlet and book collections housed in the UW Libraries, Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives Division. Additional relevant material is taken from existing digital collections which include the Tollman and Canaris Photographs, John N. Cobb Photographs, Industries and Occupations Photographs, American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, and the Freshwater and Marine Images."
Viet-Nam nhung hinh anh xua
William E. Meed collection, ca. 1898-1953 (bulk, ca. 1898-1907)
The collection consists of one journal, 42 clippings, and 327 vintage photographic prints depicting activities and scenes related to the Klondike Gold Rush in the vicinity of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada, ca. 1898-1953 (with the bulk of the materials dating from ca. 1898 to 1907). About 110 of the photographs were taken by Meed, and many are by well-known photographers such as Eric A. Hegg, H.C. Barley, H.J. Goetzman, George G. Cantwell, and the firm of Kinsey & Kinsey (Clark Kinsey and Clarence Kinsey). Meed's snapshots show his wife and family, friends, and fellow workers, as well as Dawson dwellings, docks and freighting activities, dogsled outings, and wilderness roadhouses. The commercially photographed items document Klondike mines and mining activities, Dawson street scenes, views along the Chilkoot Trail and the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad, steamboats and steamboat landings, and other Klondike scenes
Williams Afghan media project still image collections
Yukon photographers gold rush era (1897-1900) = La ruee vers l'or vue par les photographes du Yukon (1897-1900)
Photographers have been visiting the Yukon since U.S. Army Lieutenant Schwatka travelled down the Yukon River in 1883. After the discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek in 1896, many commercial photographers travelled to Dawson City, photographing the journey and establishing studios along the way. Many of the stampeders also had small roll-film cameras as part of their outfits. The photographers featured here were in the Yukon just before or during the gold rush and are only some of those that photographed the Klondike gold rush


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