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ARTstor
Google Art Project
High-resolution images of selected works from museums around the world, including Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Versailles; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence; Museum Kampa, Prague; and more... Gallery and street views, Explore the Museum feature, videos
NYPL Digital Collections
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
General Art and Architecture Images
World Images
The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
Luna Commons
Has a range of image collections from research universities, including international and american architectural image collections
Flickr
The photograph-sharing website has a growing number of architectural and related images, including selected images from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the George Eastman House, etc.
Shared Shelf Commons
Shared Shelf Commons is a free, open-access library of images, with many architecture slides that are not in the general ARTstor collection.
Europeana
Europeana is a multi-lingual image database that lets you search across digital from many european cultural institutions, museums and galleries.
CLAROS
Built on the art of ancient Greece and Rome, CLAROS is an international research collaboration, using the latest Information and Communication Technologies to enable simultaneous searching of major collections in university research institutes and museums.
George Eastman House
A steadily growing of GEH's vast photographic holdings. Also check Flickr as they have been expanding to this venue.
European Architecture
Mapping Gothic France
With a database of images, texts, charts and historical maps, Mapping Gothic France invites you to explore the parallel stories of Gothic architecture and the formation of France in the 12th and 13th centuries
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century.
Chartres - Cathedral of Notre-Dame
This website provides access to a comprehensive collection of images and detailed descriptions of Chartres Cathedral.
Gothic Past
Gothic Past is an open-access resource for the study of medieval Irish architecture and sculpture. I
Paris-360
Panoramic views of modern day Paris
Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture
Asian Historical Architecture
Welcome to www.orientalarchitecture.com, a photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view over 17,500 photos of 851 sites in twenty-one countries, with background information and virtual tours. This website is a collection of photos from many different contributors.
Travelers in the Middle East Archive
TIMEA provides online access to texts, maps, and images documenting travel to the Middle East (primarily Egypt) between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
Approximately 5000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932.
American Institute of Indian Studies
The images fall into the broad categories of architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics.
ArchNet
ArchNet is an international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilisations.
African Architecture
Africa Focus (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries)
The website offers downloadable images, sound files, and other materials on Africa drawn from contributions by UWM faculty over the last 20-30 years.
International Architecture
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Has maps, images, and information about 981 world heritage sites.
Cities Around the World
Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.
University of Michigan, Art, Architecture and Engineering Lantern Slides
The Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Lantern Slide Collection is a collection of approximately 17,000 lantern slides of architectural and geographic topics.
RIBApix
RIBApix is a database of images from the collections of the Royal Institute of British Architects covers world architecture of all periods together with related subjects such as interior design, landscape, topography, planning, construction and the decorative arts.
North American Architecture
DPLA
The USA National Public library where you can search across a range of local government, state, and national image collections.
Library of Congress Digital Collections (formerly American Memory)
Digital collections of The Library of Congress.
Toronto Public Library
Center for Canadian Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright Digital Image Collection
National Trust for Historic Preservation Postcard Collection
The postcard collection contains over 18,500 images, the majority originating from 3,185 identified locations in the United States and dating from the period 1900 to 1920.
South American Architecture
Iberoamerica Digital
BDPI is a project of the Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica (ABINIA). Its objective is the creation of a portal which provides access, from a single search point, to the digital resources of all the participating libraries. Highlighted digital collections in geography and travel, periodicals, music, and tales and legends.
The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
Hundreds of photographs and prints, in albums and rare published volumes, present the territories and countries associated with Portugal and Spain in the New World, from Mexico to Argentina, and parts of the Caribbean.
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