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The World Wide Web has billions of images. However, locating the one you want or need can sometimes be difficult. La Salle University Library subscribes to some databases that can help in your search. Also there are many free sites with excellent images. Before you use images in a project, be sure to understand some basic copyright principles. Click here for a “crash course” in copyright.
La Salle University Library subscribes to databases of images. If you are using these databases off-campus, you will be prompted for a username and password before accessing. Be sure to read the agreement sections for usage; essentially all educational use is allowed.
Corbis Images for Education
This database includes approximately 400,000 images from Corbis’ vast image collections, including more than 200,000 images from the renowned Bettmann Archive, 10,000 images from its Fine Art Collection and tens of thousands of images from its nature, science, space and various commercial stock collections. Many of the most famous photographs in history are now available as part of the Corbis Images for Education collection.
Art Museum Image Gallery (was AMICO)
Art Museum Image Gallery: a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. All images are rights-cleared for educational use, so that students can download them for papers, and teachers can include them in class lectures.
Art Museum Image Gallery features over 94,000 high-quality, high-resolution images, spanning artistic creation from 3,000 B.C. to the present. A description accompanies each entry, as well as curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views, and for many works, related multimedia. Searching is by a multitude of parameters beyond title of work and artist, including subject, materials and techniques, artist nationality and birthplace, owner of work, and date created, among others.
Saskia Images for Historians of Art
Saskia is a database of 2,507 high resolution digital images in JPEG format. Offers four resolution options for each image from ultra high resolution (2048 x 3072 pixels) to thumbnail (128 x 192 pixels) to accomodate multiple viewing needs and preferences. Includes images of western art and architecture in the following general categories: architecture, frescoes, minor arts, painting, sculpture and urbanism.
- Currently, the discs for this database can be checked-out to faculty only in the Media Services Department. Please contact Tom Ipri at x1965 or ipri@lasalle.edu if you are interested in checking these discs out.
There are many collections of images available freely on the World Wide Web.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature
NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Subject Collections of Image Databases
- Digital Librarian: This is an extraordinary collection of many image sites covering all different subjects
- American Memory Project: The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
- U.S. Government Sites
- Sunsite Image Finder
- National Archives (UK)
Tutorials : instruction on locating and using web images
- Finding Images on the Web: a Tutorial from Boston Univeristy
- Searching the Internet for Images
Search Engines
There are innumerable images available on the Internet, however there is no one way to search them all simultaneously. There are some Image Search Engines, but the results of searches are incomplete. However they can sometimes lead you to a website where you can then perform a more in depth search.