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Apollo Image Atlas - a comprehensive online collection of Apollo-Saturn mission photography from the Lunar and Planetary Institute, including 25,000 lunar images, both from orbit and from the moon's surface, as well as photographs of the earth, astronauts and mission hardware. Search by term or browse by Apollo craft, camera type, and much more |
| Astronomy Digital Image Library - online collection of astronomical, research-quality images available to the astronomical community and the general public; search by term or browse by star or galaxy name, position in the sky, frequency or waveband, and much more |
| CalPhotos: Images of Plants & Animal- a collection of over 160,000 photos of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes from around the world; Search by geographic location, common or scientific name, or browse by type of photo, including mammals, human culture, trees, and more |
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Curtis Botanical Magazine - a project of the National Agricultural Library, this browseable online collection contains over 1,000 original plates of botanical illustrations from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, 1787-1807; browse botanical illustrations by flower or plant name |
| Hubble Telescope Image Gallery - online collection of Hubble Telescope images from the Space Telescope Science Institute; search for images by term of browse by categories including galaxies, solar system, nebulae, stars, the universe, and more |
| NASA Image eXchange - NASA's searchable online multimedia collections include images of aeronautics, aircraft, projects, the solar system and beyond, space flights, and more. Searching by term or browse by category; searches returns thumbnail sized images, textual descriptions, links to higher resolution images, and links to the organization that stores each image. |
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National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Central Library Photo Collection - the NOAA searchable photo collection includes thousands of weather and space images, hundreds of images of the Earth's shores and coastal seas, and thousands of marine species images ranging from great whales to the most minute plankton. Search by term or browse by categories including the National Weather Service, fisheries, coral kingdom, and more. |
| NYPL Digital Gallery: Nature and Science Images - collection includes hundreds of images from the thirteenth through the early twentieth century, in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics, as represented by manuscript illuminations, engravings, lithographs, and photographs from the New York Public Library. |
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Primate Images from the National Primate Resource Center Library - audiovisual collection of the Wisconsin Primate Research Center contains natural history images of nonhuman primates; search by term or browse by genus or common name |
| US Department of Agriculture Beltsville Electron Microscopy Unit - browseable online collection of high resolution images from the Electron and Confocal Microscope Unit; using the scanning and transmission electron microscopes, the collection contains images of the surface of biological and physical materials unaltered by preparative procedures. Browse by categories including snow crystal, mites and ticks, and more. |
| US Department of Agriculture Forestry Images - provided by the USDA Forest Service and the Bugwood Network, this is a searchable online collection for Forest Health, Natural Resources, and Silviculture Images. Images include forest pests, trees and stand types, Silvicultural practices, invasive organisms, forest plants, wildlife, and other scenes. Each category is further divided into Orders with their common and biological names featured. |
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UW Libraries Freshwater & Marine Image Bank - part of UW Libraries' Digital Collections, this collection contains images related to freshwater and marine topics, including 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. Search by topic or browse by category. |
| UW Libraries Mt. St. Helens Post-Eruption Chemistry Database - part of UW Libraries' Digital Collections, this collection includes slides taken by Professor William Zoller, Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington, over a period of three years during research trips with his team to study the chemistry and impacts of the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens; the collection illustrates some of the methods used to study the chemistry of volcanoes and the impacts of such a powerful eruption. Search by topic or browse by category. |
| UW Libraries Plants of Western Washington- part of UW Libraries' Digital Collections, this collection includes nearly 600 images of plants commonly found in Western Washington. Most provide "aspect" level identification in attempt to identify the plant species. Considerable ecological information is also provided. Search for species within a plant family, species with the same wetland indicator value, species found in particular locations, or species not native to the state. Search by topic or browse by category. |
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