Finding Images

It can be tough to find images through google sometimes. You may need to look elsewhere. Here are a ton of websites and options for looking for images you can use in class.

Flickr Commons

• https://www.flickr.com/commons

Photos For Class

• http://www.photosforclass.com

 Flickr Creative Commons

• http://flickrcc.net/

AP Image Database: (through Chester County Lib, only accessible on GV campus)

• AP Images
  • View the greatest events in world history with photographs, audio sound bites, video, and graphics, for over 185 years.
  • *Enter Keywords. Click Search. Filter by “images”

SIRS Issues Research Database

• SIRS Issues Researcher
  • Sirs Issues Researcher is a great database for researching today's social issues and
  • *Search your keywords. Click enter. Look on the left and filter by “multimedia/statistics” to see images.

And here's a ton more:

• American Memory, The Library of Congress

  American Memory provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
• Brooklyn Museum Online Collections

  Brooklyn Museum's digital gallery contains over 90,000 digitized images from its collections. Users can browse, save, research, comment and tag. Wide-range of cultures, regions, and temporal periods represented.
• Calisphere, University of California's digital primary sources

  The University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 200,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
• Europeana

  Includes images from Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
• Gallica Bibliothèque Nationale de France 

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  Documents and images from the Bibliothèque Nationale.
• Getty Open Images

  Images of works in the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
• Google Art Project

  Google's "collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail."
• Harvard's Visual Information Access

  "VIA includes catalog records for objects or images owned, held or licensed by Harvard. Access to the catalog is open to the general public: all catalog records and thumbnail images are available to everyone. Access to higher resolution images is usually available to the Harvard community, is always determined by an individual repository, and is often dependent on copyright."
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog 

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  Contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress.

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• Life Photo Archive hosted by Google

  Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive (1750s to today).
• NASA Images
• National Gallery of Art | NGA Images

  This repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections allows users to search, browse, share, and download images believed to be in the public domain. More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
• National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration Library Photo Library
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery

  Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
• Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

  Online museum of its works. These high-resolution images can be freely used and remixed.
• Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées

  Over 470 000 photographs of works of art collected in the national and regional museums of France--museums such as the Louvre, Orsay, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Picasso Museum.
• Shared Shelf Commons (ARTstor)

  Shared Shelf Commons is a free, open-access library of images. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images. Includes some public domain Cornell collections.
• Smithsonian Institution Collections Search

  Search archival, print and digital content.
• VADS - online resource for visual arts

  Contains over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.
• Victoria & Albert Museum

  Provides online access to over 265,000 images of objects in their collection.
• Yale University Images

  Yale University Library Digital Images Database