Image Searching: Special Topic Image Collection Websites

( Library of Congress )
Contains images from US history and culture.

Searches the incredible millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive from the 1750s to the present, covering a wide range of topics and images from contemporary life. Most were never published and are now available through the joint work of LIFE Magazine and Google.

Contains over 30,000 images including European paintings, sculpture, and objets d'Art, as well as Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Islamic, Asian, and Roman antiquities.

Includes more than 400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. Embraces landmark processes, objects of great rarity, and monuments of art history that trace the evolution of photography as a means of scientific and historical documentation, and as a potent and accessible means of personal expression. Represents more than 14,000 photographers, including virtually all the major figures in the history of photography.

Enables searching of the Met's online collection, which includes the entire Department of European Paintings, entire Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, the Provenance Research Project, and highlights from each of the Museum's other curatorial departments, as well as highlights from the Museum's libraries and from the database of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center.

Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of NYPL, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." Searchable by collection, such as art and literature, cities and buildings, industry and technology, and nature and science.