Category: image searching
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The Big Picture – news and current events photo archive
The Big Picture, part of the Boston Globe online, is a massive archive of browsable and downloadable news photos. The up-to-the-minute images are organized by month and by categories such as Middle East, Religion, Daily Life, Disasters, etc. Each topic includes several photos, and in some cases (such as the post-Hurricane Ike group under “Disasters”)…
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New ARTstor collection announcements
ARTstor has announced the following are available in the Digital Library: Brooklyn Museum Costumes (The Metropolitan Museum of Art): 5,883 high resolution images of highlights from the Brooklyn Museum now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute (keywords: brooklyn costume) The Samuel H. Kress Collection and National Gallery of Art: 1,757 images from…
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s “Historic Cities”
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Geography and The Jewish National and University Library offer a fantastic website dedicated to “maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities”. The site is searchable by area, mapmaker or year, and each image can be viewed in high…