Image Sources Online
This
list is made available for the convenience of Alexandria Free Library members and others who wish to seek
out images online. Please be aware that not all sources listed here are
in the public domain - some images may be under copyright.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to more than 50% 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.
Not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain. The Library offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations.
Major categories include: People / Historical Events / The Environment & Architecture
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Oaister
OAIster currently provides access to 20,220,634 records from 1082 contributors. OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject, Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency.
http://www.oaister.org/
Wikimedia Commons
All images are in the public domain. A very rich source, if you have the patience. Search is not great, as the category scheme is somewhat eccentric. Moreover, the presentation is a bit confusing (the results page fails to make clear that there are more results in the various categories listed, but there are, oh goodness yes!) Make sure to check the bottom of the page for individual images for "more like this" as the several categories to which each image belongs are listed.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Big Rich General Sources
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to more than 50% 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.
Not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain. The Library offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations.
Major categories include: People / Historical Events / The Environment & Architecture
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Oaister
OAIster currently provides access to 20,220,634 records from 1082 contributors. OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject, Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency.
http://www.oaister.org/
Wikimedia Commons
All images are in the public domain. A very rich source, if you have the patience. Search is not great, as the category scheme is somewhat eccentric. Moreover, the presentation is a bit confusing (the results page fails to make clear that there are more results in the various categories listed, but there are, oh goodness yes!) Make sure to check the bottom of the page for individual images for "more like this" as the several categories to which each image belongs are listed.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Book Bindings
British Library Book binding database
This database is a finding aid to the British Library's bookbinding collections. It includes information and images for selected items from the Library's rich collection of fine bindings of books printed in western Europe from the fifteenth century to date.
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/Publisher's Bindings
University of Rochester, River Campus libraries - Rare Books & Special Collections
Online exhibition entitle: Beauty for Commerce: Publishers' Bindings, 1830-1910
http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=3343
Accent on Images: The Language of Illustrated Books"
This
exhibition demonstrates the immediate message of an image however
foreign to the reader the language of the text. Showcased are illustrated
books in modern foreign languages from the fifteenth through the
twentieth centuries selected from the rich and varied special
collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges. Languages
spoken and read from Scandinavia to Cape Horn and across the globe from
the Iberian Peninsula to the Sea of Japan word these volumes.http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=3343
Accent on Images: The Language of Illustrated Books"
http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc/events/accent/Hi_AccentonImages.htm
Hand bookbindings, Princeton UL SC
An
online display of over two hundred bindings. They are divided
thematically into twenty-six categories. From Special Collections in
the PRinceton University Library, previously chronicled in an
exhibition at Princeton University's Firestone Library.
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/cases/onlays/index.html
Victorian Bookbindings, U North texas
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/binding/default.htm
Database of rare & antique books for sale
http://www.bibliopoly.com/en/index.html
Coloured Cloth Bindings - Highlights from the Monash University Rare Books Collection.
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
An exhibit held Nov. 14, 1997 - Feb. 27, 1998 in Kempner Gallery. Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Gold stamping was a favored means of decoration throughout the nineteenth century, but beginning in the last decades, black and color stamping and color lithograph covers gained increasing popularity at its expense. The 1890s did, however, witness a last blaze of glory for the gold-stamped binding, before the twentieth-century triumph of the dust jacket sounded its death knell.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/gilded/index.html
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/cases/onlays/index.html
Victorian Bookbindings, U North texas
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/binding/default.htm
Database of rare & antique books for sale
http://www.bibliopoly.com/en/index.html
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
Images of rare and collectible books (external and binding only)
http://parkhurstrarebooks.com/
Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
Rare books, signed copies a speciality, original prints and drawings and paintings by Modern British and International Masters
http://www.cambridgeprints.com/catalogues/bindings.htm
Images of rare and collectible books (external and binding only)
http://parkhurstrarebooks.com/
Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
Rare books, signed copies a speciality, original prints and drawings and paintings by Modern British and International Masters
http://www.cambridgeprints.com/catalogues/bindings.htm
Coloured Cloth Bindings - Highlights from the Monash University Rare Books Collection.
The
display of Coloured Cloth Bindings from the Monash University Rare
Books Collection draws our attention to a feature of books which we
commonly take for granted. This Exhibition, with its one hundred and
fifty one items, furnishes a very detailed account of the growth and
development of book covers from about 1780 to about 1920.
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/cloth/xclothcat.html
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
An exhibit held Nov. 14, 1997 - Feb. 27, 1998 in Kempner Gallery. Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Gold stamping was a favored means of decoration throughout the nineteenth century, but beginning in the last decades, black and color stamping and color lithograph covers gained increasing popularity at its expense. The 1890s did, however, witness a last blaze of glory for the gold-stamped binding, before the twentieth-century triumph of the dust jacket sounded its death knell.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/
Bookbindings in the National Library of the Netherlands
Almost all bindings come from Europe, dating from 1540 to the present day. In this collection the bookbindings have been brought together because of their historical or aesthetical interest.
http://www.kb.nl/bc/boekb/boekb-en.html
More or less focused collections
Wizard of Oz
Collection of images from assorted illustrations of The Wizard of Oz.
http://www.mythfolklore.net/3043mythfolklore/reading/oz/gallery.htmCollection of Images from assorted illustrations
http://www.mythfolklore.net/3043mythfolklore/reading/alice/gallery.htm
English Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs)
Collection
of Images from assorted vintage English Fairy Tale books. Examples:
Lesley Brooke's illustration of The Golden Goose Book (1905) , and H.
J. Ford, The Green Fairy Book (1965).
Illustrated Tolkein Bibliography
This
site attempts to collect illustrations (including cover art) of all
British editions of the published writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
http://www.tolkienbooks.net/html/biblio.htm
DC Comics 1st Issues free download
http://www.tolkienbooks.net/html/biblio.htm
DC Comics 1st Issues free download
Vertigo Makes Complete First Issue Classics Available for Free. Sandman, Hellraiser, The Invisibles, etc.
http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=6186
http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=6186
Vertigo Comic and Books for Mature Readers
Image of comic covers
including: Sandman Mystery Theatre, 100 Bullets, Animal Man, The
Exterminators, Crossing Midnight, My Faith in Frankie, Transmetropolitan
http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/graphic_novels/
http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/graphic_novels/
Jules Verne Day
Web archive of book covers of vintage Jules Verne books.
BPIB
A site devoted to illustrative art with biographies of 105 artists, and thousands of images
http://www.bpib.com/
http://www.bpib.com/
Willy Pogany site
Small site featuring Willy Pogany's illustrations, with some image examples.
Violet Books - Golden Age of Illustration
Links and images of vintage book illustrations. Private
collection/site. Examples include: Persian Illustrations for the
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Sir G. W. Dasent's "East o' the Sun &
West o' the Moon", Fairy Tale Illustrations by Frank Pape, Homer Boss,
Alec Buckles, & Emma L. Brock, illustrations of H. Rider Haggard,
Gallery of Theodore Nadejen's Russian Fairy Tale Illustrations,
Japanese Fairy Tale Illustrations
http://www.violetbooks.com/plates-index.html
http://www.violetbooks.com/plates-index.html
Childscapes
Posters and prints, rare and wonderful illustrated vintage books -
a 2nd hand online bookseller with generous images of cover and some
interior of these publications.
http://childscapes.com/
Prints Old & Rare
Online store selling old prints, vintage maps and books, with generous image collection.
http://www.printsoldandrare.com/
Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved Illustration
Records and images of 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at exceptionally high quality.
http://www.dmvi.cf.ac.uk/
Illustrated London News Picture Library
Selection of images from the world's first illustrated newspaper and its sister magazines, 1842-present. Well organized, and a free account allows you to create your own "lightboxes" to organize your favorites. Images are subject to "Permission to Reproduce."
http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk
Antique Clipart
Public Domain archive of Victorian, and Edwardian era clipart, containing 1044 clipart images of People, Flowers, Animals and more
Public Domain archive of Victorian, and Edwardian era clipart, containing 1044 clipart images of People, Flowers, Animals and more
These clipart images are ALL from vintage sources, and have been scanned, restored, and placed into the Public Domain by AntiqueClipart.com.
http://antiqueclipart.com/Prints Old & Rare
Online store selling old prints, vintage maps and books, with generous image collection.
http://www.printsoldandrare.com/
Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved Illustration
Records and images of 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at exceptionally high quality.
http://www.dmvi.cf.ac.uk/
Illustrated London News Picture Library
Selection of images from the world's first illustrated newspaper and its sister magazines, 1842-present. Well organized, and a free account allows you to create your own "lightboxes" to organize your favorites. Images are subject to "Permission to Reproduce."
http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk
The Star: Amateur Electrician
The
How and Why of Electricity with plans fo rmaking and operating
electrical apparatus toys and novelties. Scan of vintage document.
http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c388/kryten007/The%20Star%20Amateur%20Electrician/?start=all
Fondren Library, Rice University
1)
WRC Digital Archives: Digital versions of materials from the Woodson
Research Center are available in Rice's browseable and searchable
repository. Of particular interest are the Watkin architectural papers
related to Rice University's original construction, the full-text
searchable journal "Rice Institute Pamphlets", and the Our Americas
Archive hemispheric studies materials.
2) Online Exhibits: Online
exhibits from Woodson Research Center feature photographs, letters and
other documents from our collections, including the Captain James A.
Baker family papers, Rice University pesidents, Oveta Culp Hobby
papers, and Empress Carlota and Emperor Maximilian papers.
http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/digital-archive-information
Book covers and illustrations of H. Rider Haggard,
Image scans and a brief appreciation essay by Robert Weinberg
http://www.robertweinberg.net/haggard.htm
Aunt Violet's Book Museum (a home for decayed gentlewomen)
Aunt
Violet's Book Museum is a referench-rich domain for fans &
collectors of literary ghost stories, Victorian science fiction, Yellow
Nineties Decadence, H. Rider Haggard & haggardesque "Lost Race"
novels, Marie Corelli & other occult romancers, Rafael Sabatini
& Jeffery Farnol & all vintage swashbuckling historical
romances, westerns, Yukon adventures, jungle tales, Sax Rohmer &
all weird thrillers, classic detectives, vintage children's & young
adult fantasies & series books, & all such things old,
fictional, adventurous, & weird -- old genre books of a numerous
& vintage type.
http://www.violetbooks.com/
Liam's Pictures from Old Books
Over
2,340 high-resolution images scanned from more than 100 different old
or rare books, with extracts! Remains of Ruined Castles, Deserted
Abbeys, Old Manor Houses, mansions and stately homes; also engravings,
woodcuts and pictures of Old England and Wales; symbols, photographs
and clip-art, Pictures of old books, and much more, stock images
scanned from old books, leather-bound books and musty dusty books, by
Liam Quin.
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
Illuminated Books
The Illuminated Books Project is a collection of illuminated and illustrated books from
private
libraries fully presented in their integrity and in reasonably high
resolution. Features Owen Jones, Walter Crane, Evelyn Paul, William
Morris, Alberto sangorski, Kate Greenaway,etc.
http://www.illuminated-books.com/
Old Prints
A blog of articles, images and references relating to old prints and engravings.
http://oldprints.wordpress.com/
ILN Images by the illustrator Heath Robinson
The Illustrated London News first made its
appearance on 14 May 1842 and has been published continually up to the
present day. Weekly from 1842 to 1971, monthly until 1989, thence
bi-monthly , quarterly and currently bi-annual, it is strong on all
areas of World political, industrial and social history from the middle
of the 19th century, including royalty, archaeology, science and
invention, general news stories, architecture, sport, entertainment,
education, poverty, transport and travel. Its artists included Frank
Vizitelly, Melton Prior, Samuel Begg, Fortunio Matania, Bryan De
Grineau, C E Turner, plus sought-after cutaway drawings by G.H Davis
and Louis Wain’s cat cartoons. This database sub-collection focusses on Heath Robinson
http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk/showproducts.asp?SearchID=8176
ILN Pictures
The Illustrated London News first made its
appearance on 14 May 1842 and has been published continually up to the
present day. Weekly from 1842 to 1971, monthly until 1989, thence
bi-monthly , quarterly and currently bi-annual, it is strong on all
areas of World political, industrial and social history from the middle
of the 19th century, including royalty, archaeology, science and
invention, general news stories, architecture, sport, entertainment,
education, poverty, transport and travel. Its artists included Frank
Vizitelly, Melton Prior, Samuel Begg, Fortunio Matania, Bryan De
Grineau, C E Turner, plus sought-after cutaway drawings by G.H Davis
and Louis Wain’s cat cartoons.
http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk/default.asp
MYTHOLOGY-FOLKLORE ONLINE COURSE
Course homepage from an online course with image gallery. From Egypt,
Sumerian, Ancient Greek, through to Alice in Wonderfland and Wizard of
Oz.
http://www.mythfolklore.net/3043mythfolklore/index.html
Arthurian Legends
Small private collection of images, oil paintings, illustrations, relating to the Arthurian legends
http://students.mountainstate.edu/students/rsarver/index.htm
http://students.mountainstate.edu/students/rsarver/gallery.htm
Art of the poster 1880-1918
This
collection of over one hundred and sixty digital images of historic
posters from this period was originally compiled to support the
teaching of Design History and Graphic Design courses at the
Minneapolis College of Art & Design.Skilled illustrators and
graphic designers in this collection include Alphonse Mucha, Jules
Cheret, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
http://www.lawrence.edu/library/contentdm/posters/index.htm
Beardsley
These image collections feature illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley from Salomé, The Yellow Book, Le Morte d'Arthur and elsewhere.
http://beardsley.artpassions.net/
Edmund Dulac Art images
Edmund Dulac's enchanting illustrations grace such hard-to-find
classics as his Fairy Book, Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, and The
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
http://dulac.artpassions.net/
Heraldic Clip Art
3000 pieces of heraldry clipart.
http://www.heraldicclipart.com
Tempus Peregrinator's Little Heraldry Book
online book about heraldry with individual graphic elements as examples
Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved Illustration
Records and images of 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at exceptionally high quality.
http://www.dmvi.cardiff.ac.uk/
Arts & crafts reproductions
Arts and crafts antiques, originals and reproductions for sale in an online site, covering Victorian and Art Deco.
http://www.achome.co.uk/antiques/antiques.htm
Harvestfields
(site no longer active, access via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
http://web.archive.org/web/20071205095342/http://www.harvestfields.ca/fine-art-prints/index.htm
Grandma's Graphics
From Harry Clarke to 1890's storybooks, if you're
looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in
other design or craft projects you've come to the right place. There's
a treasury here at Grandma's Graphics that you probably won't find
anywhere else online. Illustrators include: Anne Anderson, Molly
Brett,Emma E. Clark, Harry Clarke, Ruth Mary Hallock, Mabel Betsy Hill,
Harry Rountree, Sir John Tenniel, Margaret Tulloch.
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/
Maggie Blanck
Occupations in previous centuries in European
countries - with illustrations. As part of a personal genealogical
site. Occupations include: dockworkers and longshoremen, butchers,
carpentars and lumberman, etc.
http://www.maggieblanck.com/Occupations.html
The Emblem Project Utrecht
Dutch Love Emblems of the Seventeenth Century
This
is the website for the Emblem Project Utrecht. It currently includes 27
Dutch love emblem books, religious as well as profane. For all of these
we have full transcriptions, page facsimiles and indexes, as well as
extented search options. Links to sources and parallels, translations
and annotation are being added.
http://emblems.let.uu.nl/index.html
Jost Amman
Das
Ständebuch, a book of 114 woodcuts to verses by Hans Sachs
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/drawings/Graphicdesign/Booksandjackets/alphabetofIllsut/Amman.htm
The Cary Collection's Rich Holdings
Small
excerpt of full pages from a variety of scanned historical texts.
Categories include: Medieval Manuscripts, Before the Printing Press,
Gutenberg and the 15th Century, The 16th Century, The 17th Century, The
18th Century, The 19th Century, and The 20th Century
http://wally.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/subject_library.html
Orchid Thief: a true story of beauty and obsession
Private blog of a variety of beautiful images ranging from photography and illustrations, East and West, nature and metropolis.
http://pics.livejournal.com/0rchid_thief/
http://0rchid-thief.livejournal.com/
History of Science Images, Oklahoma University
Holdings range chronologically from Hrabanus Maurus'
Opus de universo (the Collections' oldest book, printed before 20 July
1467) to current publications in the history of science. They represent
an excellent cross-section for the history of printing and publishing.
Image Galleries: http://hsci.ou.edu/galleries/
Portraits: http://hsci.ou.edu/portraits/
Digitized Books: http://hsci.ou.edu/book/
Images from Encylopedias
34 categories - a small image collection of images scanned from encyclopedias in various European and Asian languages.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_encyclopedias
The James Smith Noel Collection
An image database of vintage publications in the James SMith Noel Collection - 18th and 19th century eras.
Image
categories include: portraiture, Landscape and Architecture, Geography
and Travel, Human and Animal Life and Behavior, Graphic Suites and
Graphics-Rich Works, Philosophy and Religion, Novelties and
Bibilographical Curiousities.
http://www.jamessmithnoelcollection.org/image%20bank%20main%20page.html
StockVault
Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their images. You don’t have to sign up to be able to download our images, but we’d like you to do so anyway, just so you can gain access to our special features. All images on this site are free for personal and non-commercial usage.
http://www.stockvault.net/
The Star: Amateur Electrician
The How and Why of Electricity with plans fo rmaking and operating electrical apparatus toys and novelties. Scan of vintage document.
http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c388/kryten007/The%20Star%20Amateur%20Electrician/?start=all
Fondren Library, Rice University
1) WRC Digital Archives: Digital versions of materials from the Woodson Research Center are available in Rice's browseable and searchable repository. Of particular interest are the Watkin architectural papers related to Rice University's original construction, the full-text searchable journal "Rice Institute Pamphlets", and the Our Americas Archive hemispheric studies materials.
2) Online Exhibits: Online exhibits from Woodson Research Center feature photographs, letters and other documents from our collections, including the Captain James A. Baker family papers, Rice University pesidents, Oveta Culp Hobby papers, and Empress Carlota and Emperor Maximilian papers.
http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/digital-archive-information
Book covers and illustrations of H. Rider Haggard,
Image scans and a brief appreciation essay by Robert Weinberg
http://www.robertweinberg.net/haggard.htm
Aunt Violet's Book Museum (a home for decayed gentlewomen)
Aunt Violet's Book Museum is a referench-rich domain for fans & collectors of literary ghost stories, Victorian science fiction, Yellow Nineties Decadence, H. Rider Haggard & haggardesque "Lost Race" novels, Marie Corelli & other occult romancers, Rafael Sabatini & Jeffery Farnol & all vintage swashbuckling historical romances, westerns, Yukon adventures, jungle tales, Sax Rohmer & all weird thrillers, classic detectives, vintage children's & young adult fantasies & series books, & all such things old, fictional, adventurous, & weird -- old genre books of a numerous & vintage type.
http://www.violetbooks.com/
Liam's Pictures from Old Books
Over 2,340 high-resolution images scanned from more than 100 different old or rare books, with extracts! Remains of Ruined Castles, Deserted Abbeys, Old Manor Houses, mansions and stately homes; also engravings, woodcuts and pictures of Old England and Wales; symbols, photographs and clip-art, Pictures of old books, and much more, stock images scanned from old books, leather-bound books and musty dusty books, by Liam Quin.
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
Illuminated Books
The Illuminated Books Project is a collection of illuminated and illustrated books from
private libraries fully presented in their integrity and in reasonably high resolution. Features Owen Jones, Walter Crane, Evelyn Paul, William Morris, Alberto sangorski, Kate Greenaway,etc.
http://www.illuminated-books.com/
Old Prints
A blog of articles, images and references relating to old prints and engravings.
http://oldprints.wordpress.com/
ILN Images by the illustrator Heath Robinson
The Illustrated London News first made its appearance on 14 May 1842 and has been published continually up to the present day. Weekly from 1842 to 1971, monthly until 1989, thence bi-monthly , quarterly and currently bi-annual, it is strong on all areas of World political, industrial and social history from the middle of the 19th century, including royalty, archaeology, science and invention, general news stories, architecture, sport, entertainment, education, poverty, transport and travel. Its artists included Frank Vizitelly, Melton Prior, Samuel Begg, Fortunio Matania, Bryan De Grineau, C E Turner, plus sought-after cutaway drawings by G.H Davis and Louis Wain’s cat cartoons. This database sub-collection focusses on Heath Robinson
http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk/showproducts.asp?SearchID=8176
ILN Pictures
The Illustrated London News first made its appearance on 14 May 1842 and has been published continually up to the present day. Weekly from 1842 to 1971, monthly until 1989, thence bi-monthly , quarterly and currently bi-annual, it is strong on all areas of World political, industrial and social history from the middle of the 19th century, including royalty, archaeology, science and invention, general news stories, architecture, sport, entertainment, education, poverty, transport and travel. Its artists included Frank Vizitelly, Melton Prior, Samuel Begg, Fortunio Matania, Bryan De Grineau, C E Turner, plus sought-after cutaway drawings by G.H Davis and Louis Wain’s cat cartoons.
http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk/default.asp
MYTHOLOGY-FOLKLORE ONLINE COURSE
Course homepage from an online course with image gallery. From Egypt, Sumerian, Ancient Greek, through to Alice in Wonderfland and Wizard of Oz.
http://www.mythfolklore.net/3043mythfolklore/index.html
Arthurian Legends
Small private collection of images, oil paintings, illustrations, relating to the Arthurian legends
http://students.mountainstate.edu/students/rsarver/index.htm
http://students.mountainstate.edu/students/rsarver/gallery.htm
Art of the poster 1880-1918
This collection of over one hundred and sixty digital images of historic posters from this period was originally compiled to support the teaching of Design History and Graphic Design courses at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.Skilled illustrators and graphic designers in this collection include Alphonse Mucha, Jules Cheret, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
http://www.lawrence.edu/library/contentdm/posters/index.htm
Beardsley
These image collections feature illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley from Salomé, The Yellow Book, Le Morte d'Arthur and elsewhere.
http://beardsley.artpassions.net/
Edmund Dulac Art images
Edmund Dulac's enchanting illustrations grace such hard-to-find classics as his Fairy Book, Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
http://dulac.artpassions.net/
Heraldic Clip Art
3000 pieces of heraldry clipart.
http://www.heraldicclipart.com
Tempus Peregrinator's Little Heraldry Book
online book about heraldry with individual graphic elements as examples
Tempus Peregrinator's Little Heraldry Book
online book about heraldry with individual graphic elements as examples
Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved Illustration
Records and images of 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at exceptionally high quality.
http://www.dmvi.cardiff.ac.uk/
Arts & crafts reproductions
Arts and crafts antiques, originals and reproductions for sale in an online site, covering Victorian and Art Deco.
http://www.achome.co.uk/antiques/antiques.htm
Harvestfields
(site no longer active, access via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
http://web.archive.org/web/20071205095342/http://www.harvestfields.ca/fine-art-prints/index.htm
Grandma's Graphics
From Harry Clarke to 1890's storybooks, if you're looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in other design or craft projects you've come to the right place. There's a treasury here at Grandma's Graphics that you probably won't find anywhere else online. Illustrators include: Anne Anderson, Molly Brett,Emma E. Clark, Harry Clarke, Ruth Mary Hallock, Mabel Betsy Hill, Harry Rountree, Sir John Tenniel, Margaret Tulloch.
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/
Maggie Blanck
Occupations in previous centuries in European countries - with illustrations. As part of a personal genealogical site. Occupations include: dockworkers and longshoremen, butchers, carpentars and lumberman, etc.
http://www.maggieblanck.com/Occupations.html
The Emblem Project Utrecht
Dutch Love Emblems of the Seventeenth Century
This is the website for the Emblem Project Utrecht. It currently includes 27 Dutch love emblem books, religious as well as profane. For all of these we have full transcriptions, page facsimiles and indexes, as well as extented search options. Links to sources and parallels, translations and annotation are being added.
http://emblems.let.uu.nl/index.html
Jost Amman
Das Ständebuch, a book of 114 woodcuts to verses by Hans Sachs
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/drawings/Graphicdesign/Booksandjackets/alphabetofIllsut/Amman.htm
The Cary Collection's Rich Holdings
Small excerpt of full pages from a variety of scanned historical texts. Categories include: Medieval Manuscripts, Before the Printing Press, Gutenberg and the 15th Century, The 16th Century, The 17th Century, The 18th Century, The 19th Century, and The 20th Century
http://wally.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/subject_library.html
Orchid Thief: a true story of beauty and obsession
Private blog of a variety of beautiful images ranging from photography and illustrations, East and West, nature and metropolis.
http://pics.livejournal.com/0rchid_thief/
http://0rchid-thief.livejournal.com/
History of Science Images, Oklahoma University
Holdings range chronologically from Hrabanus Maurus' Opus de universo (the Collections' oldest book, printed before 20 July 1467) to current publications in the history of science. They represent an excellent cross-section for the history of printing and publishing.
Image Galleries: http://hsci.ou.edu/galleries/
Portraits: http://hsci.ou.edu/portraits/
Digitized Books: http://hsci.ou.edu/book/
Images from Encylopedias
34 categories - a small image collection of images scanned from encyclopedias in various European and Asian languages.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_encyclopedias
The James Smith Noel Collection
An image database of vintage publications in the James SMith Noel Collection - 18th and 19th century eras.
Image categories include: portraiture, Landscape and Architecture, Geography and Travel, Human and Animal Life and Behavior, Graphic Suites and Graphics-Rich Works, Philosophy and Religion, Novelties and Bibilographical Curiousities.
http://www.jamessmithnoelcollection.org/image%20bank%20main%20page.html