LibGuides: Using Images and Visual Media: Finding Images

Using Google for Images

Google Advanced Image Search
filter your image search by size, aspect ratio, colors, type, region, site, file type, and/or usage rights

How do I Google Search by Image
Search with an image to find other images like it or to double-check a source.

Image Collections Online

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Looking for images of art--> check out the Art Libguide

Digital Images Collections Guide
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A curated bibliography of quality digital image collections spanning ~85 subjects, including ~950 digital collections
Flickr Commons
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The Commons is a partnership between Flickr and The Library of Congress.

The program has two main objectives:

To increase access to publicly-held photography collections, and
To provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge. (Then watch what happens when they do!)
Galaxy of Images
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Smithsonian Libraries encourage the use of images and other content from this website for not for profit educational and classroom use.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
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The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship
Life Photo Archive
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Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
NYPL Digital Collections
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Explore 804,670 items
Open Clip Art
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Clip Art released to the Public Domain
Wikimedia Commons
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a database of 22,056,954 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
Yale Digital Commons
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search across Yale's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio, and video documenting people, places, and events that form part of Yale's institutional identity and contribution to scholarship.

How to find Images in Library Databases

Access Medicine This link opens in a new window
Medical databases, to find images use the dropdown Multimedia menu and select Images.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Select image search above the search bar to search for photographs, images and more in 654 reference books.

Early Encounters in North America
This database includes more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters...The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
In EBSCO databases you can choose to search the Image Collection. From Academic Search Complete chose the More menu from the top blue bar and select Images. You can now search 1 million total images in these categories, broken down as follows:
Photographs
Images from Canadian Press, Getty Images, and UPI
Maps from Antenna Audio
Photographs from public domain sources

Proquest: Image Search
Searching ABI/INFORM Global‎, Alt-PressWatch‎, ProQuest Career and Technical Education‎, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest Newsstand‎, The Wall Street Journal‎ together.
To find images and illustrations go to Advanced search and check the boxes illustration and image/photograph in the Document Type before running your search.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Includes an expanded online edition of the famous Grove Dictionary of Art, along with the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.