Audio |Art Images | Clip Art | Images | Text Collections
Note: Due
to District filters, sites inaccessible on campus have not been listed. All of the sites below are accessible on campus though they may contain links
to inaccessible sites or material. Every effort has been made to provide informative and curriculum-related material
from accessible sites.
Audio
- FindSounds ~ "A free site where you can search the Web for sound
effects and musical instrument samples." Many types of files available.
- History
and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) ~ "HPOL is a searchable
multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant
to American history and politics."
- The
History Channel ~ Famous speeches and much more.
- StoryCorps ~ "StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people
to record each others' stories in sound... housed at the American Folklife
Center at the Library of Congress, which we hope will become nothing
less than an oral history of America."
- StoryCorps
on National Public Radio (NPR) ~ Listen to StoryCorps recordings
as presented on NPR.
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Art
Images --SEE ALSO: Web Reference: Art for
more images
- Architecture
Visual Resources Library Image Database (SPIRO) ~ Thumbnails
of 250,000 slides and over 20,000 architectural images from the University
of California, Berkley.
- Art
Images for College Teaching ~ Art Images for College Teaching
(AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian
and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily
to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain
on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community,
as well as to the public at large.
- The
Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery ~ COLLAGE, an image database containing over 20,000 works of art from
its collections.
- Digital
Archive of Architecture ~ An archive "consisting
of nearly 1,500 digitized images of American architecture (280 buildings)
plus explanatory material." Professor Jeffrey Howe, Boston College.
- Fisher
Fine Arts Library Image Collection ~ 50,000 images from
the Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania.
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Clip
Art
 District
#207's subscription database of clipart, photos, fonts, and more. See
a librarian for user name/password info or use the following instructions:
- Go to the
Maine South home page >
- Login to
your Net Storage >
- Open the
"SHARED" Folder >
- Open "1-LRC"
Folder >
- Open "South
LRC Databases with passwords"
- Pics4Learning ~ "Copyright-friendly images for education." Browse by topic
or use the site's search engine
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Images:
General, History, Literature, and Science
SEE ALSO: Image links within specific subject areas: Web
Reference
- American
Memory: Library of Congress ~ "American Memory provides
free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words,
sound recordings, still and moving images,
prints, maps, and sheet music that
document the American experience. It is a digital record of American
history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the
Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical
events, people, places, and ideas that continue
to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and
lifelong learning."
- The
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record ~ Hundreds of images, drawings, maps, paintings, and more. University
of Virginia Library.
- Chicago
History Museum: Online Resources ~ Online exhibitions from the Chicago History Museum.
- Chicago Imagebase ~ A "web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region." From the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- De
Paul University Digital Collections ~ Chicago architecture
and international geographic images. Some images limited to current
De Paul students/staff.
- Digital
Library System ~ "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's
online digital media library. Presently, the library system contains
the National Image Library--the Service's collection of public domain
still photos."
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- Editorial
Cartoons ~ See Web Reference:
Editorial Cartoons
- Images
from the Digital Librarian ~ An extensive,
alphabetical listing of web sites across many disciplines containing
various images, maps, photos, and more. Some sites will not be accessible
from a school computer due to filters.
- The
Internet Picture Dictionary
- Library
of Congress Prints & Photographs ~ "The Prints
& Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group
or item records to about 65% of the Division's holdings, as well as
to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many
of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one
million digital images in all."
- Maps
~ See Web Reference: Maps
- NASA
Multimedia Gallery ~ Extensive collections of art, photos,
video, and other interactive features.
- The
National Archives ~ "The National Archives is the
U.S. Government’s collection of documents that records important
events in American history. The National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains these materials
and makes them available for research." The archives contain materials
such as "firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports,
notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources."
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- The
New York Public Library Digital Gallery ~ "The NYPL
Digital Gallery provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from
primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York
Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps,
vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed
ephemera, and more."
- Northwestern
University Digital Library Collections ~ Digital collections
of historical, political, and social significance from Northwestern
University. Some collections restricted to NU faculty/students.
- People
of a Thousand Towns ~ The
Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe
- The
PhotoGraphic Library Directory ~ An extensive directory
of external websites containing photos in the following categories:
Stock Images, Fashion, Stars & Celebrities, Archive Collections
(Historic), Free Photos, Clip Art & Illustrations, Moving Images,
Photo Agencies, Fine Art, Libraries and Museums, Historic World maps/manuscripts/atlases,
and Documentary Photographers. Note: some sites will be inaccessible
from campus computers.
- Photography
at National Geographic
- Pics4Learning ~ "Copyright-friendly images for education." Browse by topic
or use the site's search engine.
- Political
Cartoons ~ See Web Reference:
Editorial Cartoons
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- San
Francisco Chronicle Photo Gallery ~ San
Franciso-area newspaper with extensive photo galleries.
- Shakespeare
at the Furness Image Collection ~ 2000 prints and photos from the University of Pennsylvania.
- Smithsonian
Images ~ Over 2.5 million images in all subject areas.
"Smithsonian Images is administered and maintained by Smithsonian
Photographic Services, the main photographic office for the National
Museum of American History Bering Center, National Museum of Natural
History, and National Air and Space Museum."
- Timelines
Directory ~ A Google directory of timelines
covering many subject and interest areas.
- Treasures Digitization
Project ~ The British Library
- UNESCO
Photobank ~ "UNESCO’s online photolibrary displays
thousands of photos on the Organization’s activities." Searchable
by region, country, place, theme, year, keyword. From the United Nations
Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.
- University
of Chicago Digital Collections ~ Full-text books, images,
musical scores, photos, and much more across many subject areas. Searchable.
- University
of Illinois at Chicago Digital Collections ~ Chicago in
the year 2000, Images of the Caribbean, and Jane Addams' Hull House
- ViewFinder ~ "A new online image resource for England's history...the Picture
Gallery and Stories contain illustrations of the industrial age, social
history, architecture and archaeology, dating from the 1840s to the
present day."
- Walter
Scott Digital Archive ~ A resource from the Edinburgh University
Library.
- Yale
Divinity Digital Image and Text Archive ~ Thousands of
artistic, historical, geographical, and religious images and texts.
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Text
Collections
SEE ALSO: Primary source links within specific subject areas: Web
Reference
- African American
Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource
Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
- American
Memory: Library of Congress ~ "American Memory provides
free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words,
sound recordings, still and moving images,
prints, maps, and sheet music that
document the American experience. It is a digital record of American
history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the
Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical
events, people, places, and ideas that continue
to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and
lifelong learning."
- Avalon Project
at Yale Law School ~ "The Avalon Project will mount digital
documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics,
Diplomacy and Government.
- Compendium
of Muslim Texts ~ a compilation of Islamic texts from the
University of Southern California.
- Chronology of United States Historical
Documents ~ From the University of Oklahoma Law School
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- Digital
Book Index ~ Digital Book Index provides links to more
than 114,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial
publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 75,000 of
these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others
are available at very modest cost.
- Documents for
the Study of American History ~ Maps, journals, letters, speeches,
etc. of American History.
- Electronic
Literature Directory ~ "The Electronic Literature Directory ...provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements."
- Electronic
Text Collections in Western European Literature ~ "This
page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European
languages other than English."
- EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe ~ Richard Hacken, European
Studies Bibliographer, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
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- International Children's Digital
Library ~ A project "to create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet."
- Internet
Sacred Text Archive ~ This site is a freely available archive
of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore,
and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation
and, in some cases, in the original language.
- Literature@SunSITE ~ "A
collection of digital texts that can be read online, printed, or downloaded."
- Making of America (MOA)
- Digital Library of Primary Sources ~ "Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." Cornell University
- The
National Archives ~ "The National Archives is the
U.S. Government’s collection of documents that records important
events in American history. The National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains these materials
and makes them available for research." The archives contain materials
such as "firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports,
notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources."
- NASA
Multimedia Gallery ~ Extensive collections of art, photos,
video, and other interactive features.
- The
New York Public Library Digital Gallery ~ "The NYPL
Digital Gallery provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from
primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York
Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps,
vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed
ephemera, and more."
- Northwestern
University Digital Library Collections ~ Digital collections
of historical, political, and social significance from Northwestern
University. Some collections restricted to NU faculty/students.
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- Primary
Sources for U.S. History ~ a list of sites from American Memory, Library of Congress
- Project
Gutenberg ~ 19,000 free books
- Repositories of Primary Sources ~ "A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness."
- Torah.org ~ a compilation of Jewish religious texts and educational resources
- Treasures Digitization
Project ~ The British Library
- University
of Chicago Digital Collections ~ Full-text books, images,
musical scores, photos, and much more across many subject areas. Searchable.
- Yale
Divinity Digital Image and Text Archive ~ Thousands of
artistic, historical, geographical, and religious images and texts.
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N. Mellendorf, Librarian.
Last update: 4/07/08
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