Images Resources

This selection of specialized resources is designed to help you identify Fondren's online image collections. Please note that these images are provided for educational use only. Click here to access guides to other materials and/or disciplines.

Image Databases

Accunet/AP Photo Archive | includes Full Text

The Accunet/AP Photo Archive contains approximately 700,000 photographs dating back to 1850; 800 additional images are added each day by photojournalists. Photographs of current events are available to view and print within minutes of an event.

Archives Image Gallery - Smithsonian Institution | includes Full Text

The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of archival visual records that are part of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's main catalog. It includes over 90,000 electronic images from several archival repositories at the Smithsonian. You may browse these images by archival repositories or by their physical forms.

ArtStor Appropriate Use | System Requirements | includes Full Text

ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) | includes Full Text

CAMIO - RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. (Supercedes AMICO )

Digital Sanborn Maps (Texas) (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text | Guide

Appropriate Use
Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools - they are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas.

NYPL Digital Gallery Appropriate Use | includes Full Text

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.

Reference Works

Grove Dictionary of Art

Other available formats:  Paper (N31.D5 1996 ART REFERENCE)

Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Available Online

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History is currently over 20,000 pages, consisting of around 300 chronological narratives, 750 special topic essays, and 5000 color illustrations of Museum works of art. It is supplemented by maps, comparative works of art, and site photography. You will also be able to take advantage of the comprehensive index organized by subject, special topic, artist, or accession number to find a specific theme or work of art. The Timeline production team will continue to add images and essays to the online resource in the next few months, so please return for updates.