Exhibits, Images, Visuals

Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database

"The database holds annotations of works of literature, art, and film relevant to the illness experience, medical education and practice -- fiction; poetry; memoir, biography, autobiography; literary, cultural, and social criticism; visual art; film; drama. The annotations are written by an invited editorial board of scholars from all over North America."

Portraits Engraving Collection at Yale

Before photography engravings were made from portraits as a method of distributing images widely. This Yale Digital Collections concentrates on "scientists" if you consider alchemists, Jesuits, historians and dramatists in that class.

Peter Parker Collection-Medical Portraits

Not for the faint of heart, these are portraits of individuals with specific medical conditions. Painted in the mid-19th Century in China. Beautiful and yet grotesque.

IDSA: 100 Years of Design

Objects of exceptionally beautiful design through the ages.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections

The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources. Made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, the project is produced at the University of Wisconsin Madison General Library System.

Trove.net

A collection of 160,000 rare and unusual images from the Research Libraries Group. You can use them under fair use for teaching and learning, but otherwise have to license them from the RLG

NYPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Online exhibits and texts from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, "a national research library devoted to collecting,preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world."

Holocaust Cybrary

Virtual Tour of Auschwitz/Birkenau, paintings from survivors, and historical photographs.

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

"Our mission is to promote racial tolerance by helping people understand the historical and contemporary expressions of intolerance." This museum is located at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan and exhibits items "related to racial segregation, civil rights and anti-Black caricatures" for scholarly and educational purposes.

MoOM--Museum of Online Museums

links to "online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions"

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Civil War photos, illuminated manuscripts, Japanese prints, early American maps, NYC photos and more

Alexandria Digital Library Project

The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced materials.

American Memory

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

DScriptorium

DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.

Eluminures

A free collection of more than 80,000 images from more than 4,000 medieval manuscripts preserved in a hundred French public libraries.

The EServer

The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.

Making of America

A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

The Rosetta Project

A publicly accessible online archive of all documented human languages.

Tulips

The Tsukuba University Library digitized Information Public Service.

AAEC Editorial Cartoon Digital Archive

" The AAEC Editorial Cartoon Digital Collection project will result in the creation of an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of original editorial artworks by more than 300 artists from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.... Approximately 500 cartoons are now available through this website..."