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The resources linked on this tab are provided by the University of Iowa for your educational use. You may use images you find through these sites for your papers and presentations, but you cannot incorporate these into your own work without proper permission from the copyright holders.
Art Images
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.
To download images users MUST register for a personal account.
MOBILE USERS: For Apple: mobile.artstor.org. For Android: Download app from Google Play. - Parker Library This link opens in a new windowHigh-resolution digital copy of every imageable page of most manuscripts in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College
- Art & Life in AfricaThe Art & Life in Africa website, hosted by the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art (UISMA), is a freely accessible educational resource that is the product of the collaborative efforts of more than fifty scholars, technicians, collectors and institutions around the world.
- Stanley Museum of Art Digital CollectionThe University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s permanent collection encompasses over sixteen thousand artworks from around the world. These support and enhance university research, teaching, and outreach, and enrich the lives of all Iowans.
- Iowa Digital LibraryThe Iowa Digital Library features more than a million digital objects created from the holdings of the University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners. Included are illuminated manuscripts, historic maps, fine art, historic newspapers, scholarly works, and more.
Office of Visual Materials
The Office of Visual Materials is a collection management service within the School of Art and Art History. They manage the School's many collections, making them available online and in exhibitions.
- MDIDA collection of over 650,000 images used to teach art history and studio art within the School of Art and Art History.
- Grad ArchiveA collection of over 17,000 digital images documenting works by grad students in the School of Art and Art History.
- DeCaso ArchiveA collection of over 37,000 images focused on 19th Century French sculpture taken by world renowned art historian Jacques DeCaso.
Other Image Databases
These image resources are not specifically for Art students, but you never know where you can find inspiration.
- Associated Press Collections Online This link opens in a new windowAssociated Press Collections Online is a publishing program focusing on making varied treasures of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive available to libraries worldwide. Includes: News Features & Internal Communications, U.S. City Bureaus Collection, Washington, D.C. Bureau Collection
- Cell Image Library This link opens in a new windowExplore images and videos of cells from a variety of organisms such as intracellular structures and functions of cells.
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new windowExplore gender through a vast body of British source material from the fifteenth to early twentieth century. Through correspondence, advice literature, periodicals, ephemera and government documents, traditional models of gender and contemporary perceptions of these can be explored. This is an interdisciplinary resource that will enrich the teaching and research of gender, history, sociology, education and literature.
- Image Data Repository This link opens in a new windowExplore this public repository of reference image datasets from published scientific studies.
- London Low Life This link opens in a new windowRare books, ephemera, maps, periodicals, and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. Chronology, interactive maps, essays, online galleries and links. Fast literature, street ephemera (posters, advertising, playbills, ballads and broadsides), penny fiction, cartoons, Tallis’ Street Views, chapbooks, Old London Street Cries, Swell’s guides to London prostitution, gambling and drinking dens, tourist guides, and topography, manuscripts of George Gissing.
- Mass Observation This link opens in a new windowFounded in 1937 by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, film-maker Humphrey Jennings and poet Charles Madge, the aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting a team of observers and volunteers to write about their lives and opinions.
This resource offers revolutionary access to the original Mass Observation project, the bulk of which was carried out from 1937 until the mid-1950s, offering an unparalleled insight into everyday life in Britain during these transformative years. Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features.