Archival Digital Images
Only images relevant to science & technology have been mentioned. Please check the individual University/Institute’s entire digital collection for images on other subjects.
Canadian Initiatives
Archives Canada is a gateway to archival resources found in over 800 repositories across Canada. Through Archives Canada you can view digitized photographs, maps, documents and online exhibits developed around Canada’s history and find contact information for repositories where these resources are held
Canada’s Digital Collection It is one of the largest sources of Canadian content on the Internet. More than 600 collections are available, celebrating Canada’s history, geography, science, technology and culture
University of Toronto Digital Collection These full text digital collections were developed at the University of Toronto Libraries. It includes illustrartions of the human anatomy (Anatomia 1522-1867), exploratory surveys of Barren Lands (West of Hudson Bay), online books, discovery & early development of insulin
US Collection
American Memory Collection maintained by the Library of Congress. It includes papers/communications of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, photographs of natural environments, national parks, 19th century science books and periodicals (full-text)
CalPhotos CalPhotos is a collection of 100,449 images of natural science (e.g. fungi, Plants, Protista) and cultural subjects. New images are added everyday. Also check out California Digital Library (from University of California)
Columbia University’s Digital Library Library of digitized images of papyri and ostraca (potsherds with incriptions) dating from the period 400 BCE to 800 CE. Also links to the Digital South Asia Library
Cornell University Library: Archival images of veterinary medicine, ornithological illustration of the 18th and 19th centuries, agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and middle to late twentieth century, links to several mathematics databases and contents of 62 math journals, Historical Monographs in Mathematics, & Zentralblatt MATH which covers the entire spectrum of mathematics including applications in computer science, mechanics, and physics
Digital South Asia Library DSAL (project of the Centre for Research Libraries) provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users
Global Gateway The Library of Congress collects materials from all over the globe. For many areas of the world, such as China, Russia, and Latin America, its collections are the finest and most comprehensive research collections outside the country of origin. Link to Country Studies is available from Research Guide & Databases link
JSC Digital Image Collection A collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission
Michigan State University’s Digital Library Collection Books, journals & other archival material related to Applied & life sciences, Osteopathy, & Orchids
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 their nature & science collection, illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, illustrated books, and more
The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE (from the University of California, Berkley) collection includes making of PCR, mapping the Icelandic Genome, and computer science technical reports
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative CDLI represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 B.C., until the end of the pre-Christian era
University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library: Parallax Project was prepared by gathering the publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh which are now digitized
University of Washington Libraries Their digital collection includes freshwater & marine images, Mount St. Helens Post-eruption chemistry database, plants of western Washington, and salmon collection (19th & 20th century). Also browsable by subjects
Washington State University’s Digital Collection Includes images from the World Civilizations Image Repository (WCIR), a series of image databases, drawn from donated personal faculty collections and images located in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) at the WSU libraries
Yale University Library’s Digital Collections: Medical Library Digital Collection & The Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library Project
Museum Collection
Smithsonian Images 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. The Office maintains an archive of over 2.5 million contemporary and historic images from these museums
San Francisco Museum Thinker ImageBase The Museum’s image collection is a fully keyword searchable database; it contains 85,000 images from the collections of their two museums
Subject Based
General Science
- PubMed Images: The Images database is compiled from full text resources at NCBI
- General Science Photographs from SciencePhoto Library
- Caltech Archives PhotoNet includes a wide variety of historical images of people, places, and things. Two categories for browsing: Science & Technology Artifacts and Rare Books
Medical
- PubMed Images: The Images database is compiled from full text resources at NCBI
- MedPix: Medical Image Database (provided by Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda)
- DermAtlas: Dermatology Image Atlas from John Hopkins University
Chemistry
- Atomic Orbitals: A gallery of atomic & molecular orbitals from the University of Sheffield
- Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania): Covers history of chemistry, emphasizing pre-1850 materials on theorotical, experimental, & practical chemistry
Mathematics
- Images & Mathematics at University of Tennessee is a concisely annotated directory
Physics
- Physics News Graphics (American Institute of Physics): Browsable and searchable image library appearing in Physics News
Geography
- USGS Image Collections Directory: Federal Government Image libraries including NLM’s History of Medicine, Smithsonian Image Library, and NSF Images. Also check out their Photo & Image Collection for Biology, Ecosystems, Geology, Geography, Hydrology & National Parks
