Television News Archive-Vanderbilt University
- TV News ArchiveThe Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. We have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.
- Guide to the TV News ArchivesLearn the whats, whys, and hows of the TV News Archives, when you can visit, about upcoming events, and much more!
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Image Databases & Resources at Vanderbilt
- Artstor This link opens in a new window
Digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Collections from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Access Note: To download images or use other advanced features, individuals must register for an individual user account.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford’s art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
- Visual Resources at VanderbiltThe Vanderbilt University Visual Resources Center is your source for finding and properly using high-quality images and resources for your papers, presentations, and projects.
Additional Image Sources
- BnF GallicaBibliothèque nationale de France: One of the major digital libraries available for free via the Internet. It provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, maps and plans.
Gallica is intended to all readers, whether users just having a look, booklovers, students or academics. - Bridgeman ImagesFounded in 1972, Bridgeman Images works with museums, galleries, collections and artists to provide a central resource of fine art and archive footage for reproduction to creative professionals. Every subject, concept, style and medium is represented, from the masterpieces of national museums to the hidden treasures of private collections.
- CLUNY MUSEUM, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIDDLE AGES, Digitized 3D ImagesThe 3-dimensional digitization of the Cluny collections began in 2014.
The Cluny Museum, alongside the National Archeology Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the National Museum of Asian Arts - Guimet Museum , is one of the pioneering establishments of this experiment carried out by the Photographic Agency of the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais . - EuropeanaEuropeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4.6 million digital items.
•Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
•Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
•Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
•Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts. - Mapping Gothic France: Notre Dame de Paris:A database of images, texts, charts and historical maps, Mapping Gothic France invites you to explore the parallel stories of Gothic architecture and the formation of France in the 12th and 13th centuries, considered in three dimensions: Space, Time, and Narrative
From Columbia University: Media Center for Art History - Notre Dame de Paris-DigitalThe restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris will be a historic building project.” And Livio de Luca, the director of the Modèles et simulations pour l’Architecture et le Patrimoine (MAP)1 laboratory, and winner of the 2019 CNRS Innovation Medal, does not want this history to once again be lost in the flames. “We will create an information system that integrates all scientific and technical data on the cathedral.”
- NYPL Digital Gallery This link opens in a new windowDigital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, etc. representing the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.
- Paris: Past & PresentA digital project that aims to create interactive 3D-digital models of great ‘lost’ monuments, architectural complexes, and diverse quartiers of medieval Paris. Through such reconstructions, we hope to make aspects of medieval architecture and urban life more accessible for the classroom and also to facilitate historical research requiring accurate virtual environments. From UCLA
Additional Links
- American MemoryAmerican Memory provides free and open access 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.
- FlickrFlickr is home to over five billion of the world’s photos.
- Getty ImagesIn 1995, Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein founded Getty Images to bring the fragmented stock photography business into the digital age. And that's exactly what they did. We were the first company to license imagery online - and have continued to drive the industry forward with breakthrough licensing models, digital media management tools and a comprehensive offering of creative and editorial imagery, microstock, footage and music. (Not affiliated with the Getty Museum).
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online CatalogThe collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
- NYPL Digital Gallery This link opens in a new windowDigital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, etc. representing the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.
- Smithsonian Collection Search CenterSearch over 7.7 million catalog records with 568,100 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.
