Research Guides: Locating Images: Home

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Welcome to the library's guide on locating images. This guide will direct you to library databases as well as reputable websites containing images.

History Research Center (History Online)
Collection of reference databases containing biographies, events & topics, overview essays, primary sources and more. The content covers American, Modern World, and Ancient and Medieval History.
Opposing Viewpoints
Topic overviews, journal articles, news, pro/con viewpoint essays, primary documents and links to websites for a variety of social issues. All articles are full-text.
Credo Reference
This multidisciplinary online reference library provides access to a selection of 601 reference books and 3,412,690 entries.
Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.

This guide was originally created by Heather Cook.

History Research Center (History Online)
Collection of reference databases containing biographies, events & topics, overview essays, primary sources and more. The content covers American, Modern World, and Ancient and Medieval History.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
Online digital image library with more than one million images on subjects in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
Artstor provides tools and software to search, present, and share digital images both online and offline for research and teaching.
Wellcome Images
Over 100,000 high resolution images ranging from ancient manuscripts, paintings, and etchings, to early photography and advertisements. The Biomedical Collection offers over 40,000 high-quality images related to disease, surgery, general healthcare, genetics, and neuroscience.
Features the collections of the Wellcome Library in London. Search the collections or browse various galleries and themes.
Credo Reference
This multidisciplinary online reference library provides access to a selection of 601 reference books and 3,412,690 entries.
Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection
Digitized collection from the Library of Congress.
George Eastman House
A select collection of images from the George Eastman Museum.
NYPL Digital Collections
Wide collection of digital images from the New York Public Library.
LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google
A collection of image from LIFE magazine indexed by Google.
U.S. Goverment Photos and Images
Image collections from some government agencies including: Fish and Wildlife, National Gallery of Art, National Library of Medicine, NASA, the military, and much more!
Getty Search Gateway
Search through selected collections from the Getty Museum.

Any time you reuse an image you should give credit with a citation. The following are examples of citing an image in MLA style.

Last, First M. Photograph Title. Year Created. Museum/Institution, Location. Website Title. Web. Date Month Year Accessed.

Example:

Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Artchive. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

Last, First M. Photograph Title. Year Created. Museum/Institution, Location. Database Title. Web. Date Month Year Accessed.

Example:

Hine, Lewis. W. Italian Family on Ferry Boat, Leaving Ellis Island. 1905. George Eastman House, Rochester. Artstor. Web. 1 March 2015.

For more information: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/