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Images & Video on the Web |
Advice for Finding and Using Digital Images
(Technical Advisory Service for Images)
Two types of tools are available to search specifically for web images and video. Image and video search engines search throughout Web pages to find video and image files. Image and video databases search within their own special collections of image files.
Image & Video Search Engines: * Google Image Search * AltaVista Image Search * Blinkx (video search) * Vdoogle (video search)
Image & Video Databases:
- YouTube: free video
sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video
clips
- Google Video: online video marketplace of TV
shows, movies, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more
- U.S. Government Photos
& Graphics (from FirstGov.gov) - State Photo Galleries covering
numerous government department image collections.
- Internet Archive's Moving
Images - Thousands of
digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily
alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive
users.
- Wikipedia
Public Domain Image Resources - A comprehensive list of public
domain image resources.
- Microsoft Office Design Gallery Live - Free clip art for legal users of Microsoft Office products.
- CalPhotos - 35,000 images--mostly public domain-- of plants, fungi, animals, people & culture, & landscapes and habitats around the world.
- Berkeley Digital Library Collections - A variety of collections,
including California Heritage, a collection of thousands of
photographs relating to
- National Archives and Records Administration Exhibit Hall - A variety of collections, including Picturing The Century, an exhibit of photographs from every decade in the last 100 years.
- Fotosearch - extensive library of royalty-free images: stock photos, illustrations and clip art from many publishers
- New York Times Photo Archives - more than 1,100 historic images carefully preserved over the past 100 years; limited size images.
- Picture Collection Online - An image resource collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. From N.Y. Public Library.
- San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection: access to nearly 30,000 photographs covering S.F. history from the 1850s to the present (from San Francisco Public Library's Historical Photograph Collection).
- Bits of History: Exploring San Mateo County Historical Photographs: Historical photos from collections at South San Francisco Public Library, Redwood City Public Library and the San Mateo County Historical Society.
- Images of American Political History - A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History
- Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco Imagebase - Searchable database of the
collections of the Fine Arts Museums of
- Time Life Pictures - An unparalleled collection of striking imagery, documenting past and present events in politics, culture, celebrities and the arts, comprising over 425,000 digital files, representing millions of original prints and negatives.
- Life Magazine Covers - Database of the covers of every Life magazine, which was published weekly from 1936 to 1972. Search by date or subject keywords.
- Cities/Buildings Images Database - A large, searchable collection of photographs of buildings, cities, and towns from over fifty countries.
- Images of African Americans from the 19th Century - Database of images selected from family photographs, early African-American educational institutions, and the personal collections of various individuals to highlight the "social, political, and cultural" life of the African-American in the 19th century. The Index is fully cataloged and searchable by subject.
- The Wright Brothers in Photographs
- Public Domain Images
- FreeFoto.com - Searchable database of more than 20,000 photographs free for non-commercial use.
- Clip Art Gallery by Janet Davis - Shareware clip art oriented to to community college instructors for web development
- PhotoGraphicLibraries.com - Links to a wide range of stock image, film and photo archives/databases including national and private photographic collections.
- United Press International Photo Archive - Database of over 100,000 news-related images (thumbnail size only)
- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film - includes fine online collection of still photography
- More Links to Free Photos / Public Domain Images
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last revised: 3-5-08 |
