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This page lists important online image archives and databases.  Click the 'Review' link to access a Viz. review of the database.

General Image Databases

New York Public Library Digital Archives

Calisphere, hosted by the University of California

American Memory, hosted by the Library of Congress

Tineye, a reverse search engine through which users can learn more about images they already have

Databases by topic in alphabetical order: (*) denotes requires subscription or login (W) denotes has institutional Watermark

Advertising

AdAccess, hosted by Duke

Emergence of Advertising in America, hosted by Duke [Viz. Review]

African-American History

(W)Calvin Littlejohn Archive, hosted by Center for American History, UT-Austin [Viz Review]

John H. White Portrait of Black Chicago, hosted by the National Archives[Viz Review]

Art and Photography
ARTstor Digital Library, hosted by ARTstor, Inc. 

Camio (Catalogue of Art Museum Images Online), hosted by OCLC

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs

Body and Medicine

Historical Anatomies on the Web, hosted by The National Library of Medicine [Viz. Review]

Dream Anatomies, hosted by The National Library of Medicine [Viz. Review]

(W)Wellcome Images, hosted by The Wellcome Library, London [Viz. Review]

Commons Image Databases

Flickr, Creative Commons

Creative Commons Search

Library of Congress Flickr Stream

Environment

NASA images 

Historic Prints

Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection, hosted by Yale [Viz. Review]

Catalogue of 18th-Century British Mezzotint Satires in North America, hosted by Lewis and Clark [Viz. Review]

Literature

(*)DASe (Digital Archive Services), hosted by Utexas Liberal Arts ITS

Maps

David Rumsey Map Collection  [Viz. Review 1]  [Viz. Review 2]

Music

(W)Texas Poster Art, hosted by the Briscoe Center at UT-Austin [Link] [Link}

Photography

Life Photo Archive, hosted by Google

William Gedney, hosted by Duke 

(W)Magnum Photos, hosted by Magnum* [Viz. Review]

(W)Associated Press, hosted by AP* [Review] 

Technology/Electronic Media

Radical Software, hosted by Radical Software  [Viz. Review]

Texas

Portal to Texas History, hosted by the University of North Texas

Workers Rights

Red Scare Archive, hosted by CUNY [Viz. Review]

Labor Rights Archive, hosted by LaborArts.org [Viz. Review]