American Memory "American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. This site, which is sponsored by the Library of Congress, offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections."
 
AMICO™ Cornell community only. (Inside the e-Reference page, click on "Art and Architecture", then click "AMICO")
"Over 78,000 works of art digitized by AMICO members and cataloged for the 2001 release of The AMICO Library™ are represented in this system. The library presently consists of works from Europe, including ancient Greece and Rome; works from North America, including Pre-Columbian (Meso-American) art; works from Asia, including ancient Asia Minor; works from Africa, including ancient Egypt; works from South America; and works from Oceania."
ArchNet ArchNet is an online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world. ArchNet is an exciting project being developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in close cooperation with, and with the full support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is a private, non-denominational, international development agency with programmes dedicated to the improvement of built environments in societies where Muslims have a significant presence.
ARTstor Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well asmany other forms of visual culture. Users can search and view images as well as download images to the ARTSTOR off-line viewer. Faculty and Teaching Assistants will want to access instructor privileges to use the restricted portions of the database and tools. Contact Margaret Webster, Director of Knight Visual Resources Collection or Martha Walker, Fine Arts Librarian for permissions.
Various handouts have been produced by ARTstor to help users get aquainted with the collections and tools available to faculty and students. They are:
Quick Start Guide
Faculty User Handout
Student User Handout
A Guide for Faculty and TA's for setting up Course Folders
A Guide for setting up Personal Collections in ARTstor
Associated Press Multimedia Archive The Photo Archive is an on-line database containing almost a half-million of Associated Press's current and historical images for the last 150 years. It features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as international photos. All are available moments after they move on the AP's spot picture system. The Photo Archive receives an average of 800 photos a day. About a quarter of the photos are selected for the permanent archive, while the rest are removed after 12 months.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains to date over 8,000 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps. The online collection is an expanding cross section of digital images designed to highlight the depth of the collection. Read Article about the collection.
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities. Made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, the site was created and is maintained at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Digital South Asia Library American knowledge of India is shaped by the American Institute of Indian Studies, a consortium of universities and colleges in the United States at which scholars actively engage in teaching and research about India. For nearly forty years, the Institute has provided fellowship support for scholars and PhD candidates in America.

The web presentation of the AIIS photographic archive is a joint venture of the AIIS and the Digital South Asia Library project. The data included been collected and edited by AIIS staff in Gurgaon. Programming and database design have been undertaken by DSAL project staff in Chicago.

The original AIIS collection is organized into four separate collections, architecture, sculpture, paintings and numismatics. The web version of the AIIS photograph archive has combined these four collections into one for ease of searching and display. There is an option to limit a search to one or more of these original designations.
LUNA Insight®  Luna Insight® provides on-campus access to digital collections at Cornell University.
Luna Insight® is the application used to maintain and view collections of images which are owned or licensed for access by the Cornell community. You have two options to access Luna Insight®, using a Java Client (PC or Macintosh) or using the Insight® web browser via Internet Explorer or Netscape.
The New York Public Library:
Picture Collection Online		 The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. It consists of images of New York City, Costume, Design, American History and other subjects.
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings database provides authoritative information on three centuries of Philadelphia buildings and designers. PAB incorporates data and images from the collections of more than 25 Philadelphia-area repositories. The database is added to and amended daily, and additional building and biographical information is welcomed through our user feedback.
Utopia (Luna Insight version) Utopia is a database of images of European Renaissance art, primarily from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is a joint project of Cornell's History of Art Department in the College of Arts and Sciences; the Knight Visual Resources Facility in the College of Architecure, Art & Planning; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; the Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Cornell University Library. Cornell community only.
Image Search Engines Ditto.com
Alta Vista
Google Image Search
Lycos Image Gallery
Ixquick Metasearch
picsearch
AICT Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) began as a personal project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community. While the AICT site is maintained and distributed under the general auspices of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD), this institution is not responsible for content or use thereof. All work on the AICT project has been voluntary, and MCAD-affiliated personnel have contributed innumerable hours of research, clerical, and design effort on a pro-bono basis. Use of the images displayed on this website has also been contributed on a non-royalty basis for the public good.
Panoramas.DK The directory contains links to websites with more than 20.000 panoramas. These panoramas are both with Java and QTVR panoramic images. QTVR is short for QuickTime VR and to see them you will need to have QuickTime installed on your computer. It is free for both PC and Mac.
Theban Mapping Project Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project (TMP, now based at the American University in Cairo) has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes. With its thousands of tombs and temples, Thebes is one of the world's most important archaeological zones. Sadly, however, it has not fared well over the years. Treasure-hunters and curio-seekers plundered it in the past; pollution, rising ground water, and mass-tourism threaten it in the present. Even early archaeologists destroyed valuable information in their search for museum-quality pieces.
CATENA, the Bard Graduate Center's Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes The primary mission of Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, is to fill a void in American higher education by assembling a searchable collection of historic and contemporary images that include plans, engravings, paintings, and photographs to make the following possible.
 

Museums and Galleries Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Louvre, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MoMA, New York
National Gallery, London
National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Portrait Gallery
Reference Sources

archINFORM
This architectural database, originally emerging from records of interesting building projects from architecture students, has meanwhile become the largest online-database for international architecture.
This database includes over 10000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database.
Art History Resources on the Web
A well developed art historical reference site. The pages are maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Ask Art
"AskART.com™ is a privately held corporation dedicated to the creation and maintenance of the world’s most comprehensive centralized database about American artists. Our founders, our investors, and our staff are committed to offer to the general public this unprecedented educational and professional resource—digital images, biographical documentation, book references, auction data, and the opportunity to engage in open forum dialogue on the subject of American artists."
BUBL
"BUBL LINK is the name of a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. Links are checked and fixed each month."
Cataloguer's Toolbox
A website "for the Bibliographic Control Services of the Queen Elizabeth II Library at Memorial University of Newfoundland. From this homepage you can access local cataloguing tools, including departmental policies and procedures and the latest production statistics, as well as resources from other Internet hosts around the world, including the Library of Congress, National Library of Canada, OCLC, and more."
Getty Information Institute
"The Getty Information Institute (formerly the Art History Information Program) was established in 1983 as an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, with the mandate to explore ways of applying computer technology to improve scholarly access to and use of art-historical information."

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
"The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture."

The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
"The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 220,000 names and biographical information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants."

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
"The TGN is a structured vocabulary of around 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture."

Categories for the Description of Works of Art
"The Categories describe the content of art databases by articulating a conceptual framework for describing and accessing information about objects and images. They identify vocabulary resources and descriptive practices that will make information residing in diverse systems both more compatible and more accessible. They also provide a framework to which existing art information systems can be mapped and upon which new systems can be developed."

Grove Dictionary of Art
"The Grove Dictionary of Art. Encyclopedic coverage of every aspect of the visual arts in one convenient source. Art Lovers and Collectors: from Impressionist paintings to stained glass, from Persian miniatures to period furniture, from antique glassware to contemporary sculpture—fuel your passion for art with the Dictionary."

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
"The Photography Collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center was established in 1963 when Harry Huntt Ransom purchased the Gernsheim Collection, at the time the largest privately-owned photohistorical archive, from Helmut and Alison Gernsheim."

ICONCLASS
"ICONCLASS is a subject specific international classification system for iconographic research and the documentation of images. It was developed by Henri van de Waal (1910-1972), Professor of Art History at the University of Leiden, and completed by his staff. ICONCLASS is a collection of ready-made definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. ICONCLASS organizes iconography into 10 'main divisions' in which the definitions are ordered hierarchically."
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress "preserves a collection of nearly 121 million items, more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books. These include the largest map, film and television collections in the world. In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the Library serves all Americans through its popular Web site and in its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill."

Library of Congress Authorities
Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and display authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations. You can also download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system. This service is being offered on a trial basis so that we can assess its usefulness and impact.

Library of Congress Thesaurus of Graphic Materials
A thesaurus of over 6,300 terms for indexing visual materials, as well as numerous cross references. New terms are added regularly. TGM I is a companion document to Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II). This interface employs Java script, which may not be fully supported by older browsers.


Libraryspot
"a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information."
Planetizen
"PLANetizen is a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. We provide a daily, one-stop source for urban planning news, job opportunities, commentary and events."

Learned Societies and Career Organizations American Institute of Architects
"AIA Online provides both consumer and professional information by providing a directory to architectural firms in either commercial, residential and institutional areas. Users will also find information on "employment, continuing education, project leads, news, legislative information events, media resources, and more."
American Planning Association
"The American Planning Association and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, are organized to advance the art and science of planning and to foster the activity of planning--physical, economic, and social--at the local, regional, state, and national levels. The objective of the Association is to encourage planning that will contribute to public well-being by developing communities and environments that meet the needs of people and of society more effectively."
College Art Association
The College Art Association "promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art. Facilitates the exchange of ideas and information among those interested in art and history of art. Advocates comprehensive and inclusive education in the visual arts. Provides opportunities for publication of scholarship, criticism, and artists' writings. Fosters career development and professional advancement. Identifies and develops sources of funding for the practice of art and for scholarship in the arts and humanities."
National Trust for Historic Preservation
"For more than 50 years, the National Trust has been helping people protect the irreplaceable. A private nonprofit organization with more than a quarter million members, the National Trust is the leader of the vigorous preservation movement that is saving the best of our past for the future."  
Professional Organizations ARLIS/NA
"Founded in 1972, the Art Libraries Society of North America represents a creative diversity of expertise and interests. Producers, purveyors, and users of all types of art information join in dynamic collaboration! Through its many works and activities--conferences, publications, awards, ARLIS-L, and its web site-- ARLIS/NA plays a leadership role in providing resources and services for the worldwide arts information community."
ARLIS/WNY
"ARLIS/WNY,the Western New York chapter of ARLIS/NA, provides the opportunity for members from all over the upstate New York region--from Albany to Buffalo--to meet other local art information professionals, to share ideas about their work, and to participate in activities which further the work of our parent organization."
VRA
"The Visual Resources Association is devoted to advancing knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources.VRA advocates and promotes a spirit of cooperation among its members and with related professional organizations. If you are interested in issues related to the study of, access to, and management of images in any media, we encourage you to join our organization."
VRA Upstate New York
"The Upstate New York Chapter of the Visual Resources Association supports the mission of the national organization and is interested in assisting its members through meetings, workshops, and professional support and contact. Membership is open to those who have already joined the national organization."