Images | Sound | Video
Images
- Ad*Access (online)
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
The Advertising Archives was established in 1990 by Larry and Suzanne Viner and is the largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind in Europe. The collection comprises over 1 million catalogued images – 50,000 of which are searchable online. This includes press and TV advertising, magazine covers, cinema posters, ephemera, and comics and chidren's annuals.
- AP Images (online)
The Photo Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. It is accessible via the Internet and made available in this format to schools K-12, colleges and universities and public libraries nationwide by AccuWeather, Inc. (From the Site's FAQ page).- American Memory (online)
American Memory is a multimedia web site of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress’s vast holdings. A historic initiative in its own right, American Memory currently makes available more than 100 collections and more than 9 million individual items to users in the U.S. and throughout the world.
- Art and Architecture (online)
OhioLINK Digital Media Center database. Approximately 3000 art and architectural images. Collections include: Greek and Roman architecture and sculpture, Minoan Art, Brueghel and Reubens paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, works of Michelangelo, and selected images from the following art history textbooks: Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Stokstad's History of Art, Gilbert's Living with Art, Hartt's History of Italian Renaissance Art.- ARTstor (online)
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. It is a searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and related data. Combinations of images, data and text provides comprehensive art-related teaching, learning and researching capabilities. Images can be viewed and analyzed through features such as zooming and panning.- CultureGrams (online)
Culturegrams online includes the World edition with 182 country reports including information on the culture and customs, maps, statistics, images and sound files. The online database also includes electronic versions of the States and Kids Editions, as well as the Photo Gallery, Famous People, and Recipe Collection.- Greater Cincinnati Memory project (online)
Over 6000 images from the pre-1940 Greater Cincinnati area.- New York Public Library Picture Collection Online (online)
A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.- NYPL Digital Gallery (online)
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
- OhioLINK Digital Media Center (online)
The Digital Media Center (DMC) provides widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information.- Picture History (online)
Find the pictures you need in this easy to use digital library of high quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history.- Visual Resources (online)
A list of image resource web sites created by the UC DAAP Library.
Sound
- Classical Music Library (online)
Classical Music Library is the world's first classical music collection for listening on computers in the library and at home. Brought to you by Classical, it is a complete collection of recordings with a supplementary reference database, enabling patrons to listen to music both in the library (with headphones) or at home (by accessing the service via the library's secure system remotely) while simultaneously searching and browsing its vast reference database.- DRAM (online)
DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing educational communities with on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. Currently DRAM's collection contains nearly 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 15 independent labels, and we are continually working to add more content. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Naxos Music Library (online)
20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,850 albums. Over 500 jazz artists are represented. Comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalog and offers the very best in blues and R&B.- OhioLINK Digital Media Center (online)
The Digital Media Center (DMC) provides widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information.
Videos
- Digital Video Collection (online)
Educational Films & Documentaries contain full-length educational videos covering a wide variety of subjects. The collection currently includes videos from two distributors, Ambrose Video and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.- Television News Archives, Vanderbilt University (online)
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.Additional Media Resources from the UC Libraries
This page was last modified on 09/25/09 by Stephena Harmony .