Databases

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Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data. Covers the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.

"With over 380,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilisations."

Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Concentrates on five main subject areas: radio, television, transportation, beauty and hygiene, and World War II, providing a view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

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The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, is home to the Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection of approximately 13,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of architecture, decorative arts and sculpture. White (1832-1918), the first president of Cornell University, established the collection by donating several thousand images from his personal architectural library. The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, in collaboration with the Department of Preservation and Conservation and the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, undertook a project to preserve, house, catalogue and digitize the entire collection.

"Over 96,000 high-quality images with a full description. Many include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views for many images, and related multimedia where available. Presents a broad range of time and place -- spans artistic creation from 3000 B.C. to the present, with art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples. Coverage of both fine and decorative art: painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds, and more."--Product description.

Artefacts Canada: Humanities.

Artefacts Canada: Humanities contains almost 4 million object records and 400,000 images from hundreds of museums across the country. Have a look and you will find treasures from disciplines such as archaeology, decorative arts, fine arts, ethnology, and history.

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Traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography during that period. Provides a virtual tour of an online exhibit depicting the history of ornithological illustration, with links to more detailed information, other images, and bird sounds. Exhibit includes illustrations in books from Cornell University Library's Hill Ornithological Collection as well as art works on loan to the university.

Library has access to Berg Fashion Library, Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Fashion Photography Archive.

Provides integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections, including the Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion, e-books, e-journals, museum directory, reference works, images, and more. Browsable by time (1600 to date) and by place (click on world map).

A collection of materials on South Asian architecture assembled over a 22 year period by Professor Robert D. "Scotty" MacDougall (1940-1987), an architect and an anthropologist. The core of this collection consists of approximately 6,682 photographs depicting significant works of architecture through time and across regional traditions throughout continental India.

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This collection of materials is derived from Professor Billie Jean Isbell's 40 years of research in the Andes, primarily in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho and specifically in the village of Chuschi, Peru, and the surrounding region of the River Pampas Valley. Included in this collection are approximately 1500 photographs, thirteen songs, Professor Isbell's ethnography, To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, as well as selected publications.

A searchable collection of historic and contemporary images that include plans, engravings, paintings, and photographs. Sponsored by the Bard Graduate Center through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes and its companion website, is envisioned as part of a larger, typologically organized archive of digital images with accompanying educational materials.

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The Claire Holt papers, #14-27-2648, comprise approximately 1,780 slides of Indonesia which were created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project. Subjects include art, architecture, ceremonies, landscapes, painting, people, sculpture, textiles, and theater. The manuscript collection also contains typescript notes about a trip to Indonesia in 1955-1956. This web site includes a complete image database of the slides as well as information about the featured artists and a brief biography of Claire Holt.

View images online from the Cornell Lab or Ornithology's collection of more than 1,000 works of art. Includes more than two centuries of work by bird artists, including Alexander Wilson, John James Audubon, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

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"The collection consists of published material, ephemera, and artifacts dating to between 1800 and 1976, including ballots and slates of candidates; promotional broadsides, handbills, and posters; political cartoons (primarily from Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and Puck); lithographs and prints (primarily by Kellogg, N. Currier, and Currier & Ives); pamphlets, leaflets, and brochures; songbooks and sheet music; badges, pins, ferrotypes and celluloid buttons; campaign ribbons; parade equipment such as lanterns, torches, banners, and walking sticks; bandanas and other textiles; and souvenirs of all kinds including plates, cups, vases, trays, bottles, sewing boxes, and games."

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 13,600 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history.

Contains photographs and rubbings of over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for the largest portion of the collection. The collections of Harriette Merrifield Forbes and Ernest Caulfield are integrated into the Farber Collection. These early stones are both a significant form of artistic creation and precious records of biographical information, such as name, death date of the deceased, stone location, and information concerning the stone material, iconography, the inscription, and (when known) the carver.

A database of 2500 illustrations of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, a native of Ithaca, New York and the nation's most notable ornithological painter since Audubon. Database also includes an exhibit based on the journal he kept during the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition.

The online file contains digital images of paintings, drawings, architectural drawings, decorative art, photography, and prints held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and collected for this site by the Cornell University Digital Image Collections. Offers access to individual images as well as information about artists and their works. The project will continue to collect images of the over 27,000 works housed in the museum, eventually adding representations of sculpture and other holdings.

This Web site provides a database of selected images and information from the records of the College of Home Economics. The photographs are organized by general subjects: Resident Teaching; International, National, State, and Local Public Relations; All-College Activities; Administration and Personnel; Departments and Divisions; Buildings and Equipment; History of the College; and Miscellaneous. Within any particular general subject category, there are more specific topics, e.g. "Resident Teaching" includes "Students and Student Life", "Homemaking Apartments", and "Apartment Babies". Descriptive information is provided for each image. Additional photographs may be found in this collection and in other holdings of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

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Photographs of Icelandic and Faroese landscapes, farmsteads, towns and people, held in the Fiske Icelandic Collection of Cornell University Library.

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This is a growing collection of images from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Images are drawn from a variety of rare book collections, as well as the University Archives and other manuscript collections.

"Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera presents the dramatic imagery of nineteenth-century Americana as experienced from the social, military, and political perspectives. At completion, the collection will present 75,000 images drawn from archives around the country, documenting the camp and battle experiences of Union and Confederate soldiers of all ranks, time spent in hospitals and in prisons, civilian life in cities and towns close to and far from the front lines of war, and the demeanor of the politicians whose decisions could bring the nation together or tear it apart. Many of the images in the collection were captured by famous and lesser-known innovators working with the burgeoning medium of nineteenth-century photography. Additionally, graphical content such as envelopes, song sheets, recruiting posters, imprints, and cartoons give users the ability to research how wartime America illustrated their times visually."--About the database.

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The Index of Medieval Art houses, contextualizes, and presents images and information relating to the iconographic traditions of the medieval world...Originally called the Index of Christian Art, reflecting its beginnings as a focused resource for the study of early Christian art, the Index now sets its parameters more broadly, including works from multiple medieval faith traditions as well as secular imagery.

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 1100 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.

Photograph collections in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives include approximately 350,000 images on film, paper, glass, and other media. The collected materials, which are largely from the 20th century, were gathered by labor unions, management organizations, arbitrators, and theorists, and provide evidence of labor relations which may be difficult to glean from other sources.

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The Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL) is an open access, multimedia resource for learning and teaching about kinematics ¡ the geometry of pure motion ¡ and the history and theory of machines. KMODDL is a pedagogical space designed for use by teachers and researchers, as well as students at a range of educational levels, and other learners, young and adult. The core of KMODDL is the Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms at Cornell University, which comprises more than 200 models developed by Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905), the founder of kinematics, for teaching and researching the principles of mechanical motion. KMODDL provides online access to the Reuleaux Collection via still and interactive moving images and descriptions of the models, as well as computer simulations, tutorials, and related full-text documents.

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The Knight Visual Resources Collection contains digital images that support instruction at Cornell University. It includes a broad range of images of art including art history, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, material culture, maps, and other documentary material.

Site featuring links to online exhibitions created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials (such as printed books, book illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, printed ephemera, posters, archival audio and video recordings, artists' books, and the book arts). Includes a separate introduction. The list of exhibitions is arranged alphabetically by title and shows the names of the sponsoring institutions.

Sound and video catalog of the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video.

"Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions", a digital collection of approximately 800 images from the sanctuary of the Eleusinian Mysteries, at Eleusis, a town belonging to Athens. "The Mysteries", as they were officially called, are usually recognized today, as they were in ancient times, as one of the most important religious cults in ancient Greece. The images currently available are derived from photographs by Professor Kevin Clinton (Department of Classics). The digital collection is one of the largest contributions to a worldwide effort to make available on the Internet both texts and images of all ancient Greek and Latin documents on stone.

NYPL Digital is your gateway to The New York Public Library's rare and unique international holdings in digitized form, including: Historic maps, rare prints and photographs, iIlluminated manuscripts, unusual printed ephemera, sound files and moving images, original art and more.

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Oxford Art Online enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Provides access to Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.

Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art

Under the sponsorship of The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art serves as a research repository of new media art and resources. The curatorial vision emphasizes digital interfaces and artistic experimentation by international, independent artists. Designed as an experimental center of research and creativity, the Goldsen Archive includes materials by individual artists and collaborates on conceptual experimentation and archival strategies with international curatorial and fellowship projects. Named after the pioneering critic of the commercialization of mass media, the late Professor Rose Goldsen of Cornell University, the Archive was founded in 2002 by Timothy Murray to house international art work produced on CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, video, digital interfaces, and the internet. Its collection of supporting materials includes unpublished manuscripts and designs, catalogues, monographs, and resource guides to new media art.

Scholars Resource is an extensive resource of high quality images that provides comprehensive coverage of works of art essential for teaching. Offers complementary image collections from Saskia Ltd., Davis Art Images, Hartill Art Associates, Archivision and The Bridgeman Art Library with additional collections continually being added. Scholars Resource uniquely provides the convenience of licensing high quality images and metadata in consistent formats from multiple vendors at one online source.

Online exhibit commemorating the devastating fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company's Greenwich Village factory in 1911. Includes documents, photographs, audio clips, and other selections of primary resources on the Triangle Fire held by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation, Cornell University. Also includes selected information on sweatshop conditions and investigations and reforms following the fire.

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"A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. Every article, cover, photo shoot, illustration and advertisement has been digitized to the highest standard, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by designer and brand names"--Web site.

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Willard Straight worked in Korea as a Reuters correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War and as a U.S. diplomat. He sketched Japanese and Russian soldiers and Korean people, and took numerous photographs of landscapes, urban scenes, cultural phenomena, historic events and people (both common and noble). Approximately 177 of his drawings, photographs and postcards comprise a remarkable collection that offers a rare example of western perspectives on Korea during the early 20th century.