nbsp;http://www.springerimages.com/
SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 1.5 million images – gathers photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables, and is available to libraries and their patrons via a searchable online database. The SpringerImages [...]
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ISC helps bring Islamic resources online for the first time
Two of the oldest known copies of the Qur’an will be available to researchers and scholars across the world today (July 8th 2009) – as part of a major project to digitise one of the richest collections of Eastern manuscripts.
The two Qur’ans, one of which may [...]
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The website for the Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 – 1960 was created in order to increase access to the materials in the collection, which includes of 7,610 photographs, 230 glass lantern slides, and various other materials depicting life in Africa from 1860 – 1960. The original materials are housed in the [...]
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from Robin Good Where to Find Free Images and Visuals for My Blog – Mini-Guide, Part 1
Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not only to find good images, but also to find some that you could [...]
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The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) and the London College of Fashion announced a collaboration today that will see the photographic archives of three important cosmetics companies made accessible online for the first time.
URL for the images is http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/LCFGAL…
nbsp;http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/openpa…
This digitised imaging system was made possible by the sponsorship of Toyota City which began in 1993 with the appointment at the Bodleian Library of a Toyota Research Assistant who compiled the database for the project. It focuses on the 15 boxes of Motor Car ephemera in the John Johnson Collection, supplemented by 1,000 images [...]
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Several libraries have recently joined the Flickr Commons initiative started by the Library of Congress in early 2008. Among them are:
Swedish National Heritage Board – 201 images
Nantucket Historical Association – 208 images
Chicago’s Field Museum Library – 476 images
District of Columbia Public Library – 154 images
source: iLibrarian blog
nbsp;http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/…
Key documents from the life and times of Henry VIII, the pious yet bloodthirsty king whose reign forever changed the nature of England. With video extracts from David Starkey’s acclaimed Channel 4 series ‘Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant’.
nbsp;http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM).
The collection includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to [...]
nbsp;http://geoffcharles.llgc.org.uk/
Geoff Charles was a Welsh newspaper photographer for 50 years, and donated his entire collection of 120,000 negatives to the National Library of Wales.
The 6000 photos from World War II that have been digitized and are available on this National Library of Wales website highlight the war effort in Wales, as well as serve as [...]
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