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**[|Artchive]**
Mark Harden's "Artchive" contains images of many essential works of art covered in any survey course. You won't find many obscure artists or rare works here, but if you need a high-quality reproduction of one of the essentials this is an excellent resource. The site is easy to navigate by the alphabetical listing of all the artists and periods/styles on the left of the screen. Each entry has some text and a list of images towards the bottom. [|See image use guidelines]. Selected galleries: - [|American Art]

**[|Art Images]**
Art Images for College Teaching was a personal, non-profit resource created by Allan T. Kohl, visual resources curator at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design-- all photographs were taken by Allan. Most of the images have references to pages of major art history textbooks where the work is mentioned. The images are still available and downloadable, but the site is no longer maintained, and there is no longer any information about image use and permissions. Selected galleries: - [|Colonial & 19th Century America]

**[|Digital Imaging Project]**
The Digital Imaging Project hosts images of sculpture and architecture from prehistoric to most-modern times. The website is organized by location. The best part of this collection is that each work has many different photographs from various angles, not only the traditional views. [|See image use guidelines]. Selected galleries: - [|United States architecture] - [|African American architecture & sculpture]

[|Emergence of Advertising]
The Emergence of Advertising in America (1850-1920) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The images can be [|browsed by collection] or [|searched]. All materials may all be used for personal and education non-commercial purposes ([|see full image policy]).

__**Flickr Groups**__
Flickr Groups are themed image collections created by members of the Flickr photograph-sharing community. There are thousands of Flickr Groups, and more are created daily. The size and quality of images within the groups varies, but overall I am impressed with the images I find there. Copyright protection varies by photographer. A very popular protection on the site is the Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to use, distribute, and change the photograph as long as attribution is given to the creator. To the right of each photograph the copyright information is displayed. Selected groups: - [|American's Favorite Architecture] - [|Colonial Churches of New England] - [|Colonial Williamsburg]

**[|Metropolitan Museum]**
The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts 6,500 images of works from their permanent collection on their website. The images are divided into collections by theme, time period, and geography, and there is also a search feature that can be used to locate a specific work. The images may be used in unaltered form for non-commercial educational purposes, as long as the artist and museum website address are cited. Selected galleries: - [|American Decorative Arts] - [|American Paintings and Sculpture]

**[|Museum of Fine Arts]**
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has digital images of over 300,000 pieces from their collection available on their website. The collection can be [|browsed], [|searched], or viewed through [|interactive tours]. A feature called [|MyMFA] allows you to bookmark images to a free account for future use. Images from the website are free to use for educational purposes. [|See image use policy]. Related galleries: - [|American Decorative Arts and Sculpture] - [|American Miniatures]

[|NYPL Digital Gallery]
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 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. Most of the works are in the public domain and the photographs provided can be used for educational purposes, though a fee is required for using the images for commercial use. Selected galleries: - [|American Popular Song Sheet Covers, 1890-1922] - [|America's First Illustrator: Alexander Anderson] - [|Pageant of America Photo Archive] - [|Picturing America, 1497-1899] - [|Changing New York: Photos by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938] - [|Charting North America] - [|Civil War Medical Care Photographs] - [|Early Real Estate Atlases of New York] - [|Photographic View of New York City, 1870s-1970s] - [|Staten Island in Vintage Postcards] - [|Stereoscopic Views of the United States] - [|Ellis Island Photographs]

[|Smithsonian Archives]
The Smithsonian Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America. The images can be [|searched or browsed] by artist, art organizations, occupations, events, places, topics, document type, or collection. The site content may only be used for personal, educational or noncommercial purposes ([|see full image use guidelines]).

**[|World Architecture]**
The World Architectural History Survey is a collection of architecture photographs from prehistory to contemporary times. The project was created at Bryn Mawr College and the images are to be used for non-profit educational purposes. The site is easy to navigate and most of the images are accessible just one click away from the front page. Selected galleries: - [|Colonial & 18th Century United States] - [|19th Century United States] - [|20th Century United States] - [|Post-War North America]

**[|World Images Kiosk]**
The World Images Kiosk is a collection of over 50,000 images hosted by California State University. The collection is very multi-cultural and it's a great resource for non-western art, which can often be difficult to find online in English. All images may be used freely for educational purposes. Selected galleries: - [|17-18th c. American Painting] - [|19th c. American Painting] - [|19th c. American Sculpture] - [|20th c. American Sculpture] - [|20th c. American Painting A-L] - [|20th c. American Painting M-Z] - [|19th c. American Architecture] - [|New York] - [|The Way West] - [|Missions & Mexican American Life] - [|Slavery & the Civil War]