Major Image Sources
Listed below are some major sources for finding images. This is just a starting place. Use the Image Databases and Websites tab to search by subject categories. Use the Books and Journals tabs to search for images in those formats.
- ARTstor Close to a million images and associated catalog data from many time periods and cultures. The ARTstor Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside the arts.
- AP Images An international photo archive of 700,000 images from the Associated Press' current year's photo reports and a selection from their 50 million image print and negative library.
- Wikimedia Commons Search or browse this database of over 2,000,000 freely usable image (and other media) files organized by topic location and type.
- Picsearch An image search service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures.
- Oaister (Open Archives Initiative) A union catalog of digital resources from over 1,000 contributors. Limit your search by research type "image".
- Flickr An image and video hosting website which, as of June 2009, claims to host more that 6.3 billion images.
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