LibGuides: HIST252: History: Images & Videos

An Image from NYPL Digital Collections

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Woman from southern Palestine spinning" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1900 - 1939. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-77c0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Images
Videos

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. All images are accompanied by comprehensive metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use.
Register for an account on the ArtStor website while on campus:
1. Click on Register in the upper right-hand corner.
2. Create your account using your AUD email address and a password that you use frequently.
3. Enter a term in the Search box and get started...
4. Remote Access will be reset after 120 days so you will need to refresh your registration on campus again.
Britannica ImageQuest This link opens in a new window
Britannica Image Quest is an online file of more than two million rights-cleared images from some 40 image collections. Complete metadata, which includes the source, copyright holder, caption, and keywords, is provided for every image.

The New York Public Library Digital Collection
ArchNet Look up Islamic Architecture here
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
David Rumsey's Visual Collections
Tribal Photo A photographic resource that supports tribal survival, the defense of human rights and cultural autonomy of indigenous people.
The Peoples of The World Foundation Non-profit site dedicate to photoethnography and visual anthropology
Internet Archive Image Search Enables you to search in multiple resources such as NASA Images, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USGS Maps, California State Library...
LIFE Photo Archive_Hosted by Google A digital collection of millions of photographs from LIFE magazine from 1750s to today.
Collections Search Center (CSC)_Smithsonian Institute Search over 12 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than 2.4 million online media files.
Google Street Art Nearly 10,000 images from around the world.

Kanopy (LIMITED) This link opens in a new window
The database contains a selection of films and documentaries that have been specifically requested by faculty members.

Video Art Distributors You can also look through the websites of video art distributors. They probably won't have free videos available to watch on demand, but it could give you some ideas about what to search for and where. The link above takes you to the Video Data Bank at SAIC. Click on the little "i" for more options.
Video Channel
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Links to digital exhibitions of video art. Look to the right-hand side of the page for links to specific nations' art and try clicking on the link to Video Art Database for more online videos.