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 California
history.
- 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 San Francisco. Currently more than
12,000 artists are represented with over 75,000 images and objects. This
databases contains not only the images, but also descriptions of the works
and links to other Web resources.
- 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
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College,
San Bruno, CA
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