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Image Searching: Find images in Books

Last Updated: Feb 19, 2024 12:08 PM

To Find Images in Books

The Libraries' Catalog is the catalog of materials in the University at Buffalo library collections, including books, videotapes, DVDs, audiotapes, audio CDs and other media.

To find images (illustrations, photographs, drawings, etc) in books, you can search the Libraries' Catalog or Worldcat and combine your topical keywords with words or phrases such as “pictorial works”, illustrations or ill, photographs, images, etc.:

Examples:

New York and pictorial works (or photography or architecture, depending on what type of image you want). (This should follow keyword)

Keyword:
Title:

Subject phrase: New York (N.Y.)--Pictorial works

  • picture dictionaries
  • photography
  • architecture
  • art

Examples: 

New York and photography
New York and architecture

Librarian

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Rose Orcutt
Contact:
Architecture & Planning Library
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Buffalo, NY 14214
rmorcutt@buffalo.edu
(716)645-1325