Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting

Searching for images can be difficult because you must rely on how people describe them -- that is, searching for images means searching for the terms that describe them. For more information, see Photos and Pictures (Searching for special formats).

Searching by file extension or html attributes

• Altavista

(http://www.altavista.com)
 
• Hotbot

(http://www.hotbot.com)
 
• Lycos

(http://www.lycos.com)
 
• WebSEEk

(http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/)

Specialized Search Tools

• AllTheWeb

(http://www.alltheweb.com)

• Alta Vista Photo Finder

(http://image.altavista.com)
 
• Amazing Picture Machine

(http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm)
 
• Image Finder

(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/)
 
• Image Surfer

(http://ipix.yahoo.com)
 
• Lycos Pictures and Sounds

(http://www.lycos.com/picturethis/)
 
• Web Places Clip Art Searcher

(http://www.webplaces.com/search)

Image Banks

• American Memory -- Library of Congress

(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/phcoll.new.html)
Photographs, Prints & Drawings searchable by keyword. 
 
• Art Imagebase

(http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/index.html)
 
• Art Images for College Teaching

(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/AICT.html)
"AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community." Features images organized by time periods (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, 18th-20th centuries and Non-Western. 
 
• Art Image Browser: Home Page

(http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/)
A collection of images of art, architectural and museum objects from the University of Michigan History of Art Department, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Chicano Murals located in Los Angeles. 

 
• ArtServe -- The Australian National University

(http://rubens.anu.edu.au/index2.html)
Art history database consisting of nearly 80 000 images of art and architecture. 
 
• Images from the History of Medicine

(http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/)

Art Resources/Museums

• Images 1 -- online images from the National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection

(http://www2.nla.gov.au/imagecoll/)
 
• Scran -- Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network

(http://www.scran.ac.uk/)
 
• Voice of the Shuttle

(http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/art.html)
 
• WebMuseum

(http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm)
 
• World Wide Arts Resources

(http://wwar.com)
Search for art related information including images and information on artists. Large range of searchable databases. 
 
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
• (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html)