Harvard Collections
There are three catalogs to use to search our digital image collections. It really comes down to personal preference as to which one you might choose.
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VIAThe Visual Information Access (VIA) system is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard. It includes information about slides, photographs, objects and artifacts in the university's libraries, museums and archives. To date only portions of each repository's holdings are described in the online catalog.
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ARTstorLimit searches to the Harvard University Study Collection of Digital Images to find digital images from the GSD's Visual Collections and the Fine Arts Library's Teaching Collection.
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American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System.
The link above provides a VIA search results set of records that contain the 2,800 individual image records. -
HOLLISIn the right column of your search results refine format by selecting "images." In HOLLIS you will find records for both the GSD digital and 35mm slide collection and the Fine Arts Library's Special Collections.
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The Digital Collections of the Harvard College LibraryTo enhance access to its rich and varied collections, the Harvard College Library (HCL) has digitized thousands of historical photographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, books, music scores, rare maps and other rare and unique materials. The vast majority of these images are freely available online for public access.
E-Resources @ Harvard for Digital Images
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AMICO - SEE: CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) contains digital images and detailed descriptions for over 115,000 works of art from major museums in the United States and Canada. Simple or advanced modes allow searching by artist, title of work, date, medium, subject, collection, and location. The standard for image resolution is 1024 x 768 pixels. Images may be printed and exported for educational purposes.
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ARTstorThe ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Their community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
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Pidgeon DigitalPidgeon Digital is the online version of The Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes which will become of priceless value to future generations.
The collection was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) so as to be able to hear the actual voices of the designers of buildings and listen to their ideas.
Other Digital Image Sources
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Library of Congress American Memory ProjectA gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
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Iwan BaanDutch photographer Iwan Baan is known primarily for images that narrate the life and interactions that occur within architecture. Iwan collaborates with the world's foremost architects, photographing institutional, public and private projects by Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, Morphosis, Frank Gehry, Toyo Ito, Steven Holl, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid, and young architects like Sou Fujimoto, Selgas Cano among others.
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Search Creative Commonssearch.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations.
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Google ImagesGoogle Images makes it easy to find the images you want in no time. Simply use an image you already have or type in the search box to find relevant images from across the web.