The Nature Lab was founded to "open students' eyes to the marvels of beauty in nature...of forms, space, color, texture, design, and structure." Check out their Digital 3D Specimen Library and their image galleries on Flickr.
An open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries. You can choose a time period or check out highlighted designers.
Provides public access to digitized materials from the Margaret Herrick Librarys collections. Currently, the database contains 3,000+ items, including correspondence, photographs, early release fliers, full issues of rare periodicals, sheet music and movie star ephemera. The database also includes complete copies of more than 250 Academy publications, dating back to the founding of the organization in 1927, selections from the Alfred Hitchcock papers, Cecil B. DeMille photographs, as well as the annual Academy Awards programs. Included in the collection of motion picture periodicals are Cinema Chat (1919-1920), Movies (1930-1934), Movie Monthly (1925) and Silver Sheet (1920-1925).
The site is broken down into these individual collections:
Academy Publications: Full text issues of member newsletters, annual reports, technical articles and other publications produced by the Academy since 1927.
Academy Awards Collection: Selected Academy Awards photographs, rule books, programs and ephemera from the librarys extensive holdings.
Tom Bhend and Preston Kaufmann Collection: Tom Bhend and Preston Kaufmann were collectors of material related to motion picture theaters and theater organs.
Cecil B. DeMille Photographs: Selection of items from the Cecil B. DeMille photographs
Alfred Hitchcock Papers: Selected items from the Alfred Hitchcock papers, mostly comprised of photographs, including several from Hitchcocks silent film period.
Motion Picture Periodicals:Complete issues of various publications from the librarys collections. The librarys periodical holdings include industry trade publications, fan magazines, technical and scholarly journals, and studio house organs.
Movie Star Ephemera: Examples of movie star and fan ephemera and collectibles from across the librarys collections. Items include fan magazine covers, fan club publications and movie star memorabilia, as well as products endorsed by or featuring images of movie stars. The earliest materials date back to the silent era.
William Selig Papers: Selection of release fliers and correspondence from the William Selig papers. Colonel William N. Selig (1864-1948) was an American producer active in film from 1896 to 1938. He founded the Selig Polyscope Company and co-founded the Motion Picture Patents Company.
Sheet Music Collection: Selection of items from the Robert Cushman collection of sheet music. Robert Cushman was an American photograph curator. He was an avid collector of silent film sheet music, which he mostly obtained from East Coast sheet music dealers.
Fred Zinnemann Papers: Selection of photographs from the Fred Zinnemann papers.
Adolph Zukor Correspondence: Selected letters and other items from the man who founded Famous Players Film Company and became head of Paramount Pictures.
Mary Pickford Papers: Selection of photographs from the Mary Pickford papers. Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born actress, producer, director, and film executive active in film making from 1909 to 1936. From 1915 through the mid-1920s she was arguably the most popular and best-known woman in the world.
The Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections currently contains only a fraction of the librarys holdings. New materials continue to be added on an ongoing basis.
This collection provides primary source documents on the frontiers of North America, Africa and Australasia including 240,000 images.
The collection deals with some of the major themes of frontier existence including: Settlement development, Law and order, Violence, Expeditions and exploration, Relations with indigenous peoples, Trade and commerce, Death and disease, Missionaries and religion, Women’s history, Military matters, Mining, Religion, Gold rushes, Settler governance, Contested boundaries, Agriculture and livestock. Covers the dates 1650-1920.
Complete archive of National Geographic magazine (1888 - 1994), along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
NYPL Digital Gallery is The New York Public Library's image database, developed to provide free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of The Library.
[Copyright Information] High-resolution images are available for licensing for personal use and for professional reproduction through Photographic Services and Permissions; the low-resolution web images available on the website are suitable for immediate printing or downloading to provide good-quality reference copies for a wide range of creative, research, and educational purposes.
Spanning a wide range of historical eras, geography, and visual media, NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of The Library, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.
Some examples of this far-ranging content include artwork such as Goya's Disasters of War; panoramic cityscapes of New York City's Fifth Avenue; classic illustrated zoologies and botanies such as Pomona Britiannica; George Caitlin's North American Indian Portfolio; Felice Beato's photographs of Japan; reformer Thomas A. Larcom's portrait collection from Dublin's Mountjoy prison; theatrical documentation including the Theatre Guild's first performance of Porgy in 1927; decorative arts in fine pochoir prints of the same era; and rare illustrated books such as William Blake's hand-printed masterpiece of 1793, America a Prophecy.
Also included are 16th-century maps and drawings depicting the landing of European explorers in the Western Hemisphere; contemporaneous engravings of battle scenes of the American Revolution; portraits of African Americans in the mid-19th century; photographs recording the westward progress of the American transcontinental railroad; sheet music covers and restaurant menus from the 1890s; and photographs of Depression-era New York City by Lewis Hine and Berenice Abbott.
Digitized collections include: The Samuel Putnam Avery Collection of etchings and lithographs from the 19th century, by French and other European and American artists, including Edouard Manet and Gustav Courbet; The Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Views -- drawings, topographical views and townscapes documenting 400 years of American history; the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases emphasizing 17th- and 18th-century English Colonial North America; the William Augustus Spencer Collection of Illustrated Books, Manuscripts and Fine Bindings focusing on medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts and on French bindings; and, the Vandamm Studio Collection photographs, recording theatre productions in New York City in the first half of the 20th century. Collection Information courtesy of NYPL
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