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A multi-disciplinary blog from the University of Illinois Library and the College of Fine and Applied Arts with announcements and technical tips on finding, creating, and using digital images in teaching, learning, and research.- Most of the digital collections featured in this blog permit the use of their material for educational, noncommercial or personal use so long as the source is acknowledged. Always check the rights and permission statements on the site.
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Recent Posts
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Launches Today
- Paris 3D: An Exraordinary Interactive Journey through Time
- ARTstor & Java Update
- “Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies” A report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project
- Your Paintings: Putting the UK’s entire national collection of over 200,000 oil paintings online
- Images from the History of Medicine
- Painting Show @Figure One Gallery, February 22nd 2013
- Through Frida’s Lens
- Ringling Collection: Portraits of Actors 1720-1920
- trial access to Material ConneXion database until February 16th
Category Archives: History
Paris 3D: An Exraordinary Interactive Journey through Time
Dassault Systèmes has developed an online 3D model of the city of Paris, and they invite users to play the 3D experience on their website. Users may explore Paris by time period: Gallic period, Gallo-Roman period, the Middle Ages, the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Education, European history, History
Tagged 3D, Paris, virtual reality
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Images from the History of Medicine
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, … Continue reading
Ringling Collection: Portraits of Actors 1720-1920
The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses. The Collection is one of several housed in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries‘ Department of Special … Continue reading
Posted in History, Theater, UIUC Digital Collections
Tagged actors, collection, history, stagecraft
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a Thanksgiving special: images from the Farm Security Administration
While The Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photograph collection has been part of the Library of Congress’s collection since the 1940′s, only recently the black and white negatives were digitized and made available online. The Farm Security Administration began as … Continue reading
Posted in History, Photos, Social history, U.S. History
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Europeana Exhibitions
Europeana Exhibitions is the virtual exhibition space for Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive. Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europes museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. This virtual exhibition space showcases the content available on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, European history, History, Music, Theater
Tagged art, European history, Europeana, Music, Theater
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Back from the Dead: The NYT’s Photo Archive Tumblr
Here at the Visual Resource Center we find ourselves up to our necks in close-to-forgotten images everyday. We are in good company. The Lively Morgue, the New York Times photo archive tumblr, is giving new life to images taken for … Continue reading
The Biodiversity Library’s Online Presence Grows
The Missouri Botanical Garden has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize natural history illustrations for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The immediate connection between the NEH and the Biodiversity Heritage Library was not clear … Continue reading
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Ara Pacis Augustae collection
Developed by Charles S. Rhyne at Reed College in conjunction with Reed’s Visual Resources Center and Web Support Services, the Ara Pacis Augustae collection seeks to “to make available a more comprehensive body of images of the Ara Pacis than previously available in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, European history, History
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Tourist photos from pre-Revolutionary Moscow
For all you Russian history aficionados out there, this collection is a fascinating look at Moscow in 1909. Taken by journalist Murray Howe on an exhibition tour of American champion trotting horses, 77 of the 400 photos taken were digitized and made available via … Continue reading
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the Memory of the Netherlands
Welcome back, students, faculty, and staff! We hope your fall semester is off to a delightful start. For those of you with an interest in Netherlandish history, I’m about to make your week even more delightful. The Memory of the … Continue reading
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Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries announce open access policy
Just as the semester draws to a close and summer is on the horizon, scholars and art aficionados have another reason to celebrate: Yale University has announced an open access policy for its collections. Gone are the days of licensing … Continue reading
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Historian’s Eye
The Historian’s Eye, created by Yale University professor Matthew Frye Jacobson, is a collection of over 1,000 digital images and audio archive addressing contemporary issues. Started in 2009 to document the historic moment of President Obama’s inauguration through photographs and … Continue reading
Posted in History, Social history, U.S. History
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Hypercities
For those of you who attended the 2010 GIS fair last November, you heard UCLA’ Dr. Todd Presner speak about his project, Hypercities, and are probably already familiar with what it has to offer. If not, read on. As described … Continue reading
Posted in History, Maps, Social history, Tools, U.S. History
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Images from Gallica Bibliotheque Numerique, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Gallica Bibliothèque Numerique is the digital initiative of La Bibliothèque nationale de France and contains over 1,00,000 digital objects including books, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, images, sound recordings, and scores. Several search options are available as well as themed exhibitions of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, European history, History, Science, Social history
Tagged Africa, Europe, France, Gallica, La Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Works Progress Administration Posters
Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress, the By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Social history, U.S. History
Tagged posters, Works Progress Administration, WWII
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A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University
A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University is a collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives. It includes several thousand scanned pages and represents HBCU libraries first collaborative effort to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Social history, U.S. History
Tagged African-American studies, Education, history, social history
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Lascaux Cave Paintings
In 1947, LIFE photographer Robert Morse became the first to photograph the now famous cave. Many of these photographs have been unpublished until now, and are available for viewing at LIFE.com.
Posted in Art, History, Social history
Tagged caves, cro-magnon, Lascaux, pre-historic
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“The Commons” on Flickr
Flickr is home to “The Commons,” a public photo collection that began in 2008 as a collaboration between Flickr and the Library of Congress. It has since expanded to include over 45 institutions, including NASA, the Imperial War Museum, and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Copyright, History, Maps, Medicine, Science, Social history, U.S. History
Tagged Flickr
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Europeana
Europeana provides access to over six million digital items, including images, texts, sounds, and videos. It is funded by the European Commission and its member states, and includes content from museum, galleries, libraries, archives, and audio-visual collections. The extensive list … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, History, Maps, Medicine, Science, Social history
Tagged Europeana
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Wellcome Images: 2000 Years of Human Culture
Wellcome Images is a rich and unique collection of digital images drawn from the biomedial and social history collections of the Library of the Wellcome Trust in London, England. In addition to over 40,000 images from clinical and biomedical sciences, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Medicine, Science, Social history
Tagged Biomedical science, Illustrated books, Medicine, Sanskrit manuscripts, social history, Tibetan art
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British Printed Images to 1700
British Printed Images to 1700 is a fully searchable library of several thousand printed images. Copies and variations of the same print are brought together within a single record. You can search prints by creator, by name of person depicted, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History
Tagged book illustration, British Museum, Great Britain, Landscapes, Natural History, Politics, Prints, Religion
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Opening History Portal
The Internet can be a Wild West environment, and it can be frustrating to locate related visual resources on a given topic when those resources reside on hundreds of different websites. The Opening History web portal seeks to make this … Continue reading
UIUC Library Digital Collections: Maps of Africa to 1900
The Maps of Africa to 1900 digital collection contains images of maps listed in the bibliography Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Bassett … Continue reading
Posted in History, Maps, UIUC Digital Collections
Tagged Africa, cartography, geography, maps, UIUC Digital Collections
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