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A.D. White Architectural Photographs

Cornell University
The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection is comprised of approximately 13,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of architecture, decorative arts, and sculpture...   More...
Approximately 1,358 images

AccuNet/AP multimedia archive : photos, text, audio, graphics

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
Accuweather / Associated Press
The Associate Press's current year's photo reports and a selection of photos from their image library.   More...

American Memory

Library of Congress
A multimedia web site of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress's vast holdings.   More...
Approximately millions and millions images

AMICA

Cartography Associates
Art Museum Images from a variety of museums   More...
Approximately 114,000 images

Architecture and Urban Planning

University of Kansas
This collection is superseded by the Archivision Architectural Images Collection and the Saskia Art Images Collection (follow the "more" link for additional information)   More...
Approximately 0 images

Archivision Architectural Images

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
Archivision, Inc.
Over 47,000 architectural images licensed from Archivision, Inc.   More...
Approximately 47,497 images

Art & Cultural Heritage

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
University of Kansas
Art history, historical, and cultural images from collections at the University of Kansas.   More...
Approximately 120,000 images

ARTstor

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
ARTstor Inc.
The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.   More...
Approximately 1,000,000 + images

Catena - Historic Gardens and Landscapes

Bard Graduate Center
Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, is a collection of historic and contemporary images, including plans, engravings, and photographs, intended to support research and teaching in the fields of garden history...   More...
Approximately 1,723 images

Chicano Art Digital Image Collection

California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, University of California at Santa Barbara
A representative sampling of the vast, cataloged archival images in Chicano visual arts in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA)   More...
Approximately 1,362 images

Classical Heritage Image Collection

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
University of Kansas
The Classical Heritage Image Collection is an on-going project organized by the KU Department of Classics. The diverse subject matter of this collection explores the boundaries of the classical tradition in the humanities...   More...
Approximately 905 images

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Cartography Associates
Map, atlas, and globe collection focusing on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials.   More...
Approximately 20,042 images

Dole Archive

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas
Photographs spanning the career and personal life of Senator Robert J. Dole from childhood to post-retirement.   More...
Approximately 250 images

Farber Gravestone Collection

American Antiquarian Society
The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource documenting gravestone sculpture, mostly prior to 1800   More...
Approximately 13,527 images

Florence Nightingale Letters

Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center.
Florence Nightingale letters held by the Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center (a subset of the Art and Cultural Heritage Collection).   More...
Approximately 306 images

From the Ground Up

University of Kansas and participating Lawrence artists
An on-going collaboration between artists living in Lawrence, and scientists and teachers from the the University of Kansas and the Kansas Geological Survey.   More...
Approximately 705 images

Google Art Project

Google
Google Art Project is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums.   More...
Approximately 32,470 images

Grove Art Online

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press)
An encyclopedia of art based on The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text.   More...
Approximately 40,000 images

Index of Christian Art

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
Princeton University
Over 20,000 work of art records which are accompanied by over 60,000 images in color and black and white.   More...
Approximately 60,000 images

Invertebrate Paleontology

Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Natural History and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas
Fossils from the collections of the KU Museum of Natural History and Biodiversity Research Center, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology   More...
Approximately 65 images

Japanese Historical Maps

East Asian Library, University of California - Berkeley
Early maps of Japan and the World - a selection of early maps and books from the collection   More...
Approximately 1,293 images

John Carter Brown Archive of Early American Images

Brown University
A database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.   More...
Approximately 6,094 images

JSC Digital Image Collection

Johnson Space Center, National Aerospace and Aeronautics Administration (NASA)
This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission.   More...
Approximately 9,000 images

Kansas City Aerial Photographs

Kansas City Design Center and the University of Kansas
Aerial photographs of Kansas City and the surrounding area, taken in 2002 by Alex S. MacLean (a subset of the Art and Cultural Heritage Collection)   More...
Approximately 300 images

Kansas City Hopewell Collection

University of Kansas Anthropological Research and Cultural Collections
Artifacts recovered from investigations of 23 Kansas City Hopewell Archaeological sites (a subset of the Art and Cultural Heritage Collection)   More...
Approximately 1,736 images

Kansas Collection Photographs

University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library
Historical photographs from the Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Univ. of Kansas (a subset of the Art and Cultural Heritage Collection). This online set contains only a small sample from a collection of over a million photographs.   More...
Approximately 3,695 images

Kansas Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library
The Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Library, University of Kansas, houses and provides access to an extensive collection of Sanborn maps for 241 Kansas towns and cities covering a period from 1883 through the 1930s.   More...
Approximately 5,245 images

Kansas Wildflowers

Kansas Biological Survey and the University of Kansas
The Kansas Biological Survey Kansas Wildflowers database includes images of common wildflowers of Kansas.   More...
Approximately 196 images

KU Photo Library

University of Kansas, Office of University Relations
Recent images of KU people, places, and events.   More...
Approximately 1,000 images

Leon K. Hughes Photography Collection

University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library
The Leon K. Hughes Photography Collection is a chronicle of African American family and community life in Wichita, Kansas from the late 1940s through the 1970s.   More...
Approximately 1,059 images

Maps and Cartography

University of Kansas Libraries
Maps from the University of Kansas Libraries Map Collection, primarily USGS topo maps of the central plains region.   More...
Approximately 113 images

Maps of Africa

Stanford University
Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries   More...
Approximately 578 images

Mediterranean Travel and Trade, 1300-1800

University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library
Taking Special Collections outside the Library by Digital Repackaging: Primary Sources from the Spencer Research Library for the Study of Mediterranean Cartography, Navigation, Travel and Trade 1300-1800.   More...
Approximately 220 images

Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC )

California Digital Library
Selected works from the permanent collections of eight California museums   More...
Approximately 77,117 images

National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
Cartography Associates
Selected objects from the permanent collection spanning seven millennia of Chinese history   More...
Approximately 5,004 images

NYPL Digital Gallery

New York Public Library
Over 450,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library   More...
Approximately 450,000 images

Pennell Photography Collection

University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library
The Pennell Collection consists of more than 30,000 glass plate negatives that represent the life work of Joseph J. Pennell, a successful commercial studio photographer who worked in Junction City, Kansas, from the early 1890s to the early 1920s.   More...
Approximately 5,992 images

Political Americana

Cornell University
Presidential promotional and commemorative items dating from 1789 to 1980   More...
Approximately 2,278 images

Saskia Art Images

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
Saskia, Ltd.
32,111 digital art history images licensed from Saskia, Ltd.   More...
Approximately 32,111 images

Serial Set Maps (U.S. Congressional Serial Set)

Restricted to KU students, faculty and staff
Readex Archive of American
Maps published within the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980.   More...
Approximately 50,000 images

Spencer Museum of Art

University of Kansas
Works of art in KU's Spencer Museum of Art (a subset of the Art and Cultural Heritage Collection).   More...
Approximately 17,700 images

University Archives

University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library
Photographs from the University of Kansas Archives   More...
Approximately 673 images