Photographs and Pictorial Works

Design Center Image Bank contains over 17,000 images related to urban design issues (focusing on the Twin Cities metropolitan region).

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The collection spans some ten centuries of Western illumination, and contains manuscripts from all the major schools, including some of the great masterpieces of medieval manuscript art.

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A steadily growing digital image sampler from the George Eastman House holdings.

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Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.

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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.

WorldImages provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 60,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into some 600 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.

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The Library of Michigan Digitization for Preservation and Access Grant was awarded to the Detroit Public Library in 2005. The grant allowed for the creation of a digital database of 19th century and pre-1922 photographs of Detroit. The formats include glass negatives, lanternslides, cased images, albumen prints and stereograph cards from the Detroit Public Library's Burton Historical Collection. These images illustrate the social and cultural history of Detroit as well as document the historical events that have occurred in the city.

1800-1922

4,700 digital images portraying American artists of the 20th century. The photographs were taken by Peter A. Juley & Son.

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A rich archive of images of architectural monuments, landscape architecture, public art, etc.

An archive of original photos, advertising, and other memorabilia from silent films, and a few early sound films (especially those featuring silent film performers).

Photos scanned from original, vintage photographs issued by motion picture studios when the films were released during the silent era. 1915 - 1933