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Photos of letters by duncan c, via Flickr

What's in the Guide

The Images Research Guide provides links to image databases and resources to help you find and effectively use images in your scholarly work. In this guide you will find:

Images from the UW Libraries
Image databases the UW Libraries subscribes to, and image collections developed by the UW Libraries
Open Images
Sources for open and unrestricted images, and sources for images with Creative Commons licenses
Citing Images
Tips and tools for citing and crediting images

Top Resources

Start your image search with these top image resources:

Artstor This link opens in a new window
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Search over one million digital images in the fields of the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
Beginning August 1st, 2024, ARTstor will go away and content will be available exclusively at JSTOR.

Flickr
Millions of photographs uploaded by users. In Advanced Search, choose Creative Commons licenses for reusable images. Explore The Commons for images contributed by institutions.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
Library of Congress's photographic collections, including Brady-Handy presidential portraits, daguerreotypes, Farm Security Administration photographs, National Photo Company early 20th-century photos of D.C., and more.
New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery
Over 700,000 images digitized from primary sources and print rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including photographs, maps, manuscripts, and prints.

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