Images in a book?

Say you are looking for images by a particular artist and you've found a book about that artist in the library catalog. How can you tell whether the book contains images?

Below are the details of this book. Does it contain images or illustrations? Yes!

News Feed: NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day

Health and Science Images

Close view of a red ripe strawberry revealing the rough, dimpled skin of this fruit, which allows you to see why the strawberry needs to be thoroughly washed. Photo by Debora Cartagena, 2012 from Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Public Domain.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Macaulay Library
A database of animal sounds & videos.
Gray's Anatomy Online
An online version of the 1918 edition, including over 1,200 illustrations; browse text sections for images in context or click "illustrations" to browse images only.
History of Medicine (IHM)
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 21st century.
NASA Image Exchange (NIX)
Offers public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections.
National Library of Medicine
Online exhibits on a variety of health topics; features The Visible Human Project, complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.
Public Health Image Library
Electronic gateway to CDC's pictures; open to health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.

News Feed: Art of the Day from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

General Images

Close-up of paper umbrellas from Microsoft Office

Flickr Commons
Search and use hundreds of images with "no known copyright restrictions." A joint venture of Flickr and the Library of Congress, Flickr Commons was designed to increase access to publicly-held photography collections.
Google Images
Image*After
Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.
Luna Commons
A new source for finding valuable, educational content from digital collections built in the Insight Software from Luna Imaging, Inc. and presented in Insight's dynamic new LUNA browser.
Microsoft Office Images
Make or find pictures to insert in Office documents
Open Clipart Library
This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use.
Public Domain Sherpa
This page lists resources for high-quality public domain photographs
Wikipedia Commons: Free Media Resources/Photography
Provides links to a number of sources of freely licensed and public domain images on the Web.

Images from our Databases

Lightening flashes over under-construction residential high-rise. SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search the Image collection. Click on More to access.
eLibrary (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
A gateway to a wide variety of sources including TV and radio transcripts, magazine articles, reference books, newspapers, maps, pictures, audio and video clips. Contains more than 2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
To find images, limit search to image caption field.
Science Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 270,000 high quality images from National Geographic, UPI, Getty, NASA, Nature Picture Library and more

Art Images

Pastoral, Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1923-24. Photo: © Tate, London 2012’

AMICA Library
The AMICA Library contains over 108,000 works of art from the collections of contributing museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
Art Images for College Teaching
AICT is intended to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large.
Flickr: Art Knowledge News - Photostream
20,000 plus fine art and photography images from known and mid-emerging artists with complete captions.
Art in Context Image Collection
Browse art images by media, nationality of the artist, or subject term. Covers 20th and 21st century artists.
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century.
Galaxy of Images
Contains a portion of the more than 1.5 million printed books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
GLOPAD
GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.
Google Arts & Culture
Explore selected galleries virtually, through a kind of “interior” street view.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collection Search
The collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art, from ancient Egyptian to contemporary.
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture.
Tate Collection
Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Online Image Collections
Portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching and research.
Web Gallery of Art
Searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries; dual mode allows you to view images side-by-side to compare and contrast.
New York Public Library (NYPL): Digital Collections
This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Culture, Current Events and History Images

Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar. 1943. Calisthenics/photograph by Ansel Adams. From: American Memory, Library of Congress.

Library of Congress (LOC): Digital Collections
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.
German History in Documents and Images
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present.
Illustrated Newspaper Supplements (Flickr Collection)
Illustrated newspapers (starting 1909) from the Library of Congress's Historical Newspapers image collection, displayed on Flickr. Contains many public domain images.
Flickr: The Library of Congress
With the launch of the Library of Congress pilot, Flickr began a new initiative called "The Commons." Cultural heritage institutions that join The Commons are sharing images from their photographic collections that have no known copyright restrictions.
Library of Congress (LOC): Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
View a digital collection of photographs and prints owned by the Library of Congress, dating back to the Civil War. Also includes posters, comics, daguerreotypes, and blueprints.
New York City Department of Records Image Gallery
The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to over 800,000 items digitized from the Municipal Archives’ collections, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings. The holdings are arranged by collection; or you may search “All Collections” by keyword or any of the advanced search criteria.
Smithsonian Collections Search Center
Search all SI collections for images, sound files, videos and digital manuscripts. Select "Only return results with online media."
Sociological Images
Sociological Images provides thought-provoking images and commentary. A new image or video clip is added each day. Images are from magazines, TV, the press, pop culture, etc. and often serve as examples of sexism, racism, or ageism in advertising.
Vacations.info
Hundred of public domain images of vacation spots around the world.
New York Public Library (NYPL): Digital Collections
This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
World Digital Library
WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Image Indexes

Blue Eyed Husky Puppy 8651. By Robert & Mihaela Vicol.

Artcyclopedia
Comprehensive index to over 7,000 artists and links to approximately 80,000 works, primarily painting and sculpture.

Visual Literacy: Find Visual Sources