Image collections
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Australian
- Anglo-Australian Observatory of Astronomical Images
- Australian Pictorial Thesaurus - collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images.
- Australia - Asia - Pacific: Prints and printmaking - from the National Gallery of Australia
- Illustration Index to Australian Art - compiled by the University of Adelaide Library
- Picture Australia - hosted by the National Library, a gallery of images from Australia's cultural institutions
- Pictures Catalogue - National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection
- Pictures Catalogue - State Library of NSW
- Pictures Catalogue - State Library of Victoria
- Science Image Online - presented by CSIRO
International
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser - a vocabulary of nearly 131,000 terms for describing objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present from the Getty Research Insititute
- ARTISTE: Image Retrieval System - European Galleries - including collections from the Centre of Research and Restoration for the Museums of France; the National Gallery, London; the Uffizi Gallery, Florence; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- Images Canada - a collection of images from participating archives, libraries, museums and universities across Canada
- Digital Collection - State Hermitage Museum, St Peterburgh, Russia
- Images online - from the British Library
- Prints and Photographs - from the Library of Congress (US)
- Smithsonian Institution online collections
- Visual Arts Data Service - searching a range of specific collections
Please contact the Library if there are broken links.
Suggestions for new sites are always welcome.
Last updated 13 May 2011