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	150 years of advertising in the Netherlands
	19th-century American trade card
	19th-Century Photography of Ancient Greece "Illustrates approximately 200 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Focusing on Greece, Asia Minor, the Aegean islands, Cyprus, South Italy, and Sicily, these images belong to the Getty Research Institute's Gary Edwards Collection."
	19th-Century Photography of Ancient Greece
	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
	age of King Charles V (1338-1380) 1,000 illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts Collection of 1000 images from 7 manuscripts housed in the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The images are from manuscripts that were created during the reign of Charles V (1338-1380), and include such topics as religion, science and technology, etc, the Catalan Atlas, Cresques Abraham, and the Hundred Years' War. Includes 17 short essays about the period to explain and accompany the images
	Alaska and western Canada collection
	America from the Great Depression to World War II photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 / "The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to nearly 45,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white offering. The FSA-OWI photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs during the latter days of the project."
	American Ballroom Companion A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals beginning with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ending with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another
	American cinema. Episodes 1-13 An epic analysis of the American motion picture industry that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics
	American Indians of the Pacific Northwest digital collection "This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics ... The digital database includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 3,800 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855. Secondary sources include 89 articles from the Pacific Northwest quarterly and 23 University of Washington publications in anthropology."
	American variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment, 1870-1920 / Multimedia collection containing digitized versions of selected Library of Congress holdings. Represents diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English and Yiddish language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, sixty-one motion pictures, and 143 photographs and twenty-nine memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
	ancient city of Athens This site provides color images of the ancient archaeological and architectural remains of Athens, Greece, with a brief description of each image
	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
	AP images - UW restricted Millions of news photographs dating back to 1826, and more than one million audio sound bytes dating from the 1920's, among other digital resources
	Apollo image atlas Digital reproductions of photographs taken by astronauts on Apollo spacecraft
	Architecture of the Getty Center, Los Angeles, California Web site for architectural photographs of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California
	Architecture of the Pacific Northwest database
	Architecture Slide Library S.P.I.R.O. query form SPIRO contains surrogate images of photographs and drawings from approximately 2,000 books, 200 periodical titles, and 100 postcards, posters, and calendars. SPIRO also contains surrogate representations of slides from 25 slide vendors and 220 donors
	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
	ARRS GoldMiner System provides instant access to images published in selected peer-reviewed radiology journals; allows viewers to search for images by findings, anatomy, imaging technique, and patient age and sex
	Art for the nation collecting for a new century : 1 October 2000-4 February 2001
	Arthur Churchill Warner photographs
	Asahel Curtis Photo Company photographs, 1853-1941 Photographs selected by the studio to represent its work in documenting Pacific Northwest activities and scenes. Subjects include fishing, mining, logging and other industries; building and road construction; maritime activity; railroads and streetcars; agriculture and irrigation; hydroelectric power generation; street scenes, schools, churches, hotels, office buildings, regrading, and harbor development in Seattle; and Washington State scenic views. Most of the photographs were taken by Asahel Curtis or his staff, 1901-1940. On occasion, Curtis purchased the work of other photographers, and he also copied historical photographs taken by others. Some of these photographers are represented in the collection, with photographs taken as early as 1853 being included
	Ashida bunko kochizu korekushon
	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."
	Atlas of gastrointestinal endoscopy
	Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design Offers overview to ideas espoused by the Bauhaus school; provides details about the museum and its mission. Contains brief essays on Bauhaus work in: plastic arts, architecture, photography, and art. Offers general overview of the Bauhaus Museum's holdings for persons interested in traveling to Germany to do research. Offers no searchable archive of the museum's collections
	Beazley Archive The Beazley Archive is a research unit of the University of Oxford's Faculty of Literae Humaniores. This web site provides access to photographs, notes, drawings and books relating to ancient Greek and Roman art. The photographs of Athenian vases are the largest archive of this class in the world and were the basis of John Beazley's life's work
	Bling consequences and repercussions "Bling: Consequences and Repercussions tackles the issues behind Hip Hop's obsession with diamonds and the continued illegal diamond trade in Africa. Kanye West's music video, Diamonds from Sierra Leone, introduced the topic of conflict diamonds to the urban communities. Bling looks to further educate the Hip Hop generation about the murder and carnage caused by the world's greed for diamonds. Comments = Genre: Documentary Films."
	Book of hours Images from the 15th century Book of Hours held in the Frick Fine Arts Library of the University of Pittsburgh. Includes explanatory text
	Boston African Americana Project A searchable database of over five hundred digitized documents relating to African Americans, falling broadly within the categories of slavery, the abolition movement, free blacks, the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, rural life, urban life, social life, advertising, and depictions of men, women, and children. The collection consists of broadsides, caricatures, illustrations, manuscripts, pamphlets, political cartoons, portraits, and views. Materials span the years 1770 to 1950, with the bulk of the collection falling around 1865
	Boyd and Braas photographs, ca. 1888-1893 Collection consists of 74 images of early Seattle, especially the waterfront and street scenes, Madrona and Leschi parks, studio portraits of emminent Seattleites, and scenes of the Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, and its aftermath. Other views include images of Washington state: Snoqualmie Falls, scenic lakes and rivers, Mt. Rainier, and Native Americans harvesting hops
	Brain biodiversity bank atlases Provides access to atlases of the human, sheep, bottlenose dolphin, and axolotl brain
	Bridging World history. Episodes 1-26 A multimedia site that looks at global patterns through time seeing history as an integrated whole. Topics are studied in a general chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences. The course videos feature interviews with leading world history textbook authors and nationally known historians. The Web site includes an archive of over 1000 primary source documents and artifacts, journal articles from the Journal of World History and other publications, and a thematic interactive activity on interrelationships across time and place
	Built in America historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) "The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories." Part of American Memory
	Built in America Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-present The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) are among the largest and most heavily used collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as windmills, one-room schoolhouses, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As of March 1998, America's built environment has been recorded through surveys containing more than 363,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This first release adds digital images to the searchable on-line catalog records, including images of the pages of written histories for all HAER surveys and about 25% of HABS surveys, 17% of the HAER survey photographs and a small sampling of the HABS and HAER measured drawings. Additional digital images will be added monthly. As an example, the on-line catalog record for the Beebe Windmill in Suffolk County, New York, shows how the full range of documentation for a survey will be displayed once it has been digitized
	By the people, for the people posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 / The Library of Congress WPA Poster collection, produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, was designed to publicize health and safety programs, cultural programs, travel and tourism, educational programs, and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia
	CalPhotos: plants Images of native California plants
	Caltech archives PhotoNet
	Calvin F. Todd photographs
	CAMIO RLG's catalog of art museum images online - UW restricted CAMIO fills the gap left by the end of operations of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). This new database not only supports art history, studio art, and design departments, it also provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. It covers antiquity to the present, and includes photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles, books, installations, and architecture - plus audio-video and mixed media
	Celebrating nursing science the research-practice link /
	Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Contains photographs, stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents illustrating the history of the transcontinental railroad. Discusses the 1860s construction of the railroads, the financial backers, and workers involved in this project that reduced coast-to-coast travel from over one hundred days to six. Also contains information on the joining of the rails between the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad in May 10, 1869. The virtual museum was established by the family of railroad pioneer Lewis Metzler Clement and launched in February 1999
	Centralia massacre collection Digitized collection of pamphlets, leaflets and letters, originally held by the now defunct I.W.W. Seattle Office, focuses on the Centralia Massacre of 1919 in Centralia, Washington
	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."
	Chip Shot The Chip Shots website explores the hidden beauty in some of today's hottest microprocessors as visualized under a microscope. Using a variety of unique, highly-refined reflected optical microscopy techniques, we have developed a large collection of full-color photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) illustrating the beautiful patterns observed on integrated circuit surfaces
	Cities/buildings archive Original Cities/buildings Web site containing geographicallly oriented image lists. This site is no longer being expanded and has no search capability
	Cities/buildings database Searchable database archive of thousands of architectural photographs, depicting structures from all over the world
	Civil War treasures from the New-York Historical Society Drawn from the New-York Historical Society's archival collections documenting the Civil War, the collection features recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides
	Civil Works Administration collection
	Classical composers photo archives Contains pictures of classical composers scanned (JPEG) from musical literature from the early 1900s
	Climate timeline exploring weather & climate change through the powers of 10 "Developed as an information resource covering the fundamentals of climate change over varying times scales, the Climate Timeline Information Tool uses a "powers of ten" exponential or logarithmic approach to looking at different time scales. While the focus is on past climate change, one of the goals of the site is to provide a context and background for framing current and future climate change."
	Coastal Bio-Energy Forum April 4, 2006, Olympic Natural Resources Center, Forks, WA : [proceedings] The objective of the conference was to assemble regional parties interested in exploring bio-energy issues for the purpose of understanding what the status of bio-energy in the region is now, achieving a common knowledge base and creating a network for future action
	Corbis images for education - UW restricted Contains vast collections of historical, fine art, science, and nature collections, from the tragedy of the Hindenburg to the courage of Rosa Parks and from the daring of the Wright Brothers to the electricity of Marilyn Monroe. The collection includes imagery from the Bettmann Archive, United Press International, and the Hulton Deutsch Collection, as well as paintings, sculpture, illustrations, and architecture dating as far back as prehistoric cave paintings
	Corpus vasorum antiquorum an illustrated catalogue of more than 100,000 ancient vases / Website for the online version of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project of the Union Academique Internationale, which involves publication of a collection of images of primarily Greek ancient vases dating from 6,000 B.C. to 400 A.D. from more than 120 collections in 26 countries. Provides an online searchable database of digitized text and images, browsable by country and museum, and searchable by fabric, technique, provenance and other aspects. Describes the project, with the invitation of the Union Academique Nationale and sponsorship of the Getty Grant Program and other institutions, for the Beazley Archive at Oxford University to digitize the approximately 250 out of print fascicules (out of over 300 published) over the period 2002-2004. The project is on-going; new fascicules are being published and participating museums have the opportunity to contribute to the on-line database
	Creating French culture : treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de France /
	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
	Curtis botanical magazine
	Dai Nihon enkaiyochi zenzu
	Dance Heritage Coalition "DHC focuses in four areas: access to materials; the continuing documentation of dance employing both traditional methods and developing technologies; presertation of existing documentation; and education regarding methods, standards, and practice for access, documentation, and preservation."
	Darius Kinsey photographs, ca. 1890-1939 The collection consists of 151 photographic prints depicting logging activities in the Darrington, Sauk River, Skagit River, North Bend, Lake Samish, Gold Bar, and Lake Crescent areas of Washington State from 1890 to 1939
	Database of early photographs
	Dearborn-Massar photograph collection
	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
	Digital library rare material collection
	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."
	Dr. Seuss went to war a catalog of political cartoons / Online exhibit of 388 political cartoons published by Dr. Seuss in the New York newspaper PM during the years 1941-1943. The exhibition is organized chronologically. Richard H. Minear has written the introduction to the exhibition
	Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian photographic images Includes the complete digitized set of historical photographs taken by E.S. Curtis in the early decades of the twentieth century and published in the 20-volume set The North American Indian, 1907-1930. The collection is searchable by keyword and browsable by geographic location, tribal affiliation, or subject term (for artifacts, activities, social status, etc.). Also included are a chronology of the life of Curtis, as well as maps and essays placing Curtis' work in context by Mick Gidley, David R.M. Beck, and Gerald Vizenor
	eKokuho
	Electron microscopy unit snow page Images of snow crystal structure obtained with a low temperature scanning electron microscope
	Emergence of advertising in America 1850-1920 / Site contains more than 9,000 images from the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University which trace the early history of U.S. advertising. Images are available from 11 collections held by Duke. Site includes a timeline
	Ethnomusicology musical instrument collection Contains over 250 images of musical instruments from the collection of the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division
	Everett massacre collection "This collection, documenting labor's perspective of the 1916 Everett Massacre and its aftermath, currently holds 39 articles from the Seattle Union Record as well as 49 other items including pamphlets, fliers, hand- and typewritten works, postcards and a photograph."
	Fashion plate collection Digital images drawn from the Fashion plate collection and Journal des dames et des modes, both in the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives division of the University of Washington Libraries. Also included is an excerpt from the book Dame fashion by Julius M. Price, 1913
	Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) collection
	Federal theatre project poster slides "The Federal Theatre Project Poster Slides Collection contains 595 different 35-mm slides taken from original posters. These images are of the original designs used on posters to advertise FTP plays in many different American cities from 1935 to 1939."
	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
	FishScope time-lapse recordings and confocal images dealing with the developmental biology of fish /
	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
	FMG on demand world-class educational video - UW restricted
	Forestry images the source for forest health and silviculture images / Image categories include forest pests; silvicultural practices; invasive organisms; forest plants; wildlife; and people, places, and scenes
	Frank H. Nowell photographs, ca. 1901-1908 Primarily consists of photographic prints taken by Alaska photographer Frank H. Nowell of towns, mining camps and operations, businesses, modes of transportation, and native people in and around Nome, Alaska, following the gold rush of 1900. Included are images of Eskimos; steamships; reindeer; streets; dog teams; freighting operations; and various establishments such as schools, hotels, shops, telegraph stations, government buildings, churches, and hospitals. Locations photographed include Nome, Teller, Cape Prince of Wales, Juneau, Sitka, and Dawson
	Frank La Roche photographs, ca. 1888-1910 The collection consists of 408 photographic prints in two series. The first series includes views of Washington State, including the cities of Seattle and Everett, California, and British Columbia, and images of logging and ships; also features portraits of Native Americans of Puget Sound. The second represents Alaska and gold rush activities in the Klondike
	Freshwater and marine image bank An ongoing digital collection of public domain images related to freshwater and marine topics in all their diversity. Digital reproductions of mostly book illustrations include images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects. Its scope is global
	Freshwater mussels America's hidden treasure
	FWS online video U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's multimedia portal, offering a wide variety of video and audio products