Graphics & Images

Multimedia Sites

Google's Image Search is "the most comprehensive image search on the Web".

EServer is a collection of media and hypertext, including categories of ascii art, audio, backgrounds, clip art, hypermedia, maps, soundtracks, and videos.

Photos

Corbis is "the place for pictures on the Internet" with over 2 million photos.

Ditto "compiles the largest searchable index of visual content on the internet... nearly 6 million thumbnails selected and evaluated from over 115 million images." Ditto delivers thumbnail images and the web sites underlying these images.

General Sites

Finding Images Online, a directory of web image sites, is arranged by topic.

Symbols.Net collects links to web pages that define symbols and provide background information. The pages linked are more reference/dictionary/encyclopedia-like rather than sources to find graphics or photos for your own use.

Yahoo's Clip Art category.

Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web: Images is an extensive list, not sectioned into subjects. Use the browser Edit/Find to search this page for a keyword such as "plant" or "war".

Special Collections

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. "The American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently over 70 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections."

CAMIO (Art Museum Image Consortium Library) -- offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources. This database not only supports art history, studio art, and design departments, it also provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. Access restricted to UF and SUS faculty, staff, students.

The Smithsonian Institution's Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Services offers an image database. Topics range from from Art, to Air and Space, Science, Nature, Technology, History, and People-Places.

Subject-Specific Sites

Agriculture

Aeronautics

Biology

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

History of Science

Medicine and Health

Physics

Technology