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The College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (formerly Literature, Philosophy and the Arts VRC) online image collection serves the departments and disciplines within the college, especially Literature, Philosophy and The Arts. The core physical collection numbers approximately 90,000 slides and 300 videocassettes. The collection is located in 3045 CB (College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters building on the UM-Dearborn campus).

This image collection was the result of a photographic expedition to Java and Bali organized in 1983 by University of Michigan History of Art professor Walter Spink. Members of the team included Paul Berry, Bambang Hoedoyo, Steve Markel, Elizabeth Horton Sharf, Garrett Solyom, Walter Spink, Suresh Vasant, and Patrick Young. All of the images on display at this site were photographed by Patrick Young, Head Photographer, Department of the History of Art.

"[Searchable database of over] 300,000 [art] images from 2,000 sources, 8,000 locations and 30,000 artists. The site offers an excellent quality of image and metadata (captions and keywords) as well as the legal right to use the images within your institution. Search all media including photography, fine art, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology & ethnography, history, science & medicine, decorative arts and artifacts."--About us.

1,600 museums,galleries,institutions and private collections over 8,000 geographical locations 30,000 artists 3,000 frescoes 1800 oils 32,000 engravings, lithographs & prints 7,000 manuscripts 22600 ceramics 17,000 photographs 11,000 sculpture 16,000 images of architecture 18,000 images of landscapes & topography 28,000 portraits 6,000 designs & patterns 2,100 images of jewellery & gemstones

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Online access to the complete RSMeans Library including over 85,000 unit prices, 25,000 building assemblies and 42,000 facilities repair and remodeling costs covering every category of construction.

Construction Cost Estimator: powerful estimating tools to customize, save, share, or export estimates with ease and avoid creating or updating cost estimates manually.

Square Foot Estimator: a user-friendly tool for anyone who needs rapid budget cost estimates in the office, with a client, or in the field.

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Began ca. 2008.

Material ConneXion offers a knowledge base with an eclectic collection of over 1,400 innovative materials and processes. The database is updated regularly and frequently with materials juried by a panel of material specialists.

We are a resource for all disciplines of design development, including: Architecture, Interior Design, Packaging Design, Retail Design, Industrial Design, Fashion, Apparel & Footwear, Exhibition Design, Textile Design, Landscape Architecture, and Transportation Design.####Our libraries include the largest selection of sustainable materials and the only Cradle to Cradle materials library in the world: Polymers, Ceramics, Glass, Metals, Cement-based materials, Natural Materials, Carbon-based materials, and Processes.

SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that allows you to create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business and marketing data. Data can be downloaded for use with other software such as Excel and GIS.

This site allows one to access over 1,000 local municipal codes from almost all states. Seach by state and locale.

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Searchable database of 3500 scans of architectural drawings and photographs from the Muschenheim collections at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. William Muschenheim was a modernist architect who studied at MIT and the Behrens School in Vienna. He worked in New York from 1929-1950. He taught at the University of Michigan College of Architecture and carried on a practice in Ann Arbor from 1951-1989.

The Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Lantern Slide Collection is a collection of approximately 17,000 lantern slides of architectural and geographic topics. Lantern slides are glass slides that were used from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. They are made of two thin panes of glass that measure 3" X 4 1/4" or 3" X 3". Usually the slide is composed of a layer of emulsion laid on one pane of glass and covered by the other pane, but sometimes there is actually a layer of film sandwiched between the glass panes.