Finding Images Online
- ARTstor
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The Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible collection of software tools for organizing and presenting research, with contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.Note: You must create an individual account to download images. Select 'more' for important information on use restrictions.
- Catena: Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and LandscapesCatena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, is a collection of historic and contemporary images, including plans, engravings, and photographs, intended to support research and teaching in the fields of garden history and landscape studies.
- Cities and Buildings DatabaseThe Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.
- Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection (HALIC) & HALIC ModernConsisting of approximately 11,000 images that document the architecture, landscape and urban planning of sites across the United States—with a particular emphasis on Chicago and its suburbs—and, to a lesser extent, internationally, The Historic Architecture and Landscape Image collection, or HALIC, contains mounted photographic prints, lantern slides (both black and white and hand-colored), and postcards dating from the 1860s to the 1970s.
- Project for Public SpacesPPS was founded in 1975 to expand on the work of William (Holly) Whyte, author of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. We have since completed projects in more than 3000-plus communities in 47 countries and all 50 U.S. states and we are the premier center for best practices, information, and resources on placemaking.
Citing & References
You will need to reference images you find online, in books, journals or magazines. See these guides for information and advice on how to reference images in your work:
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Access & Troubleshooting
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