Image Websites
Librarians’ Internet Index
- enter in specific phase and image
Freefoto
- bills itself as the “largest collection of free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet.” FreeFoto.com is made up of 83128 images with 129 sections organized into 2746 categories.
Pics4Learning
- is set up for use by educators and students. This site also has lesson plans.
- Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.
- Pics4Learning is developed as part of the Partners in Education program by Tech4Learning, and the Orange County Public Schools Technology Development Unit.
- Collection of copyright friendly images for educators compiled by Tech4Learning and Orange County Public Schools .
- Also has lesson ideas that incorporate images.
Kid's Image Search Tools
- lists special image databases. http://www.kidsclick.org/psearch.html
ART
AMICO - Art Museum Image Consortium
Art.com - Art reproduction online store with large, searchable image catalog
SILS Art Image Browser - Art, architectural, and museum object images from 4 museums/collections
National Portrait Gallery [US] - shows the most influential characters in United States history portrayed by the finest artists of their generation.
Richardson HS Texas website links to Art sites and museums http://libraries.risd.org/art.htm
ANIMALS
FWS National Image Archive - The collection includes images of a variety of species including birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals and plants
Animals at the Smithsonian's National Zoo - The photos in this library are from the vault of the National Zoo
eNature.com Guides to North America - Online field guides covering over 4800 species
Garst Photographic Collection - Thousands of color photographs of animals from around the world
ASTRONOMY/SPACE
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive - Pictures along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer
Hubble Space Telescope Greatest Hits - Unprecedented pictures of celestial objects
NASA Image eXchange - NIX returns thumbnail sized images, textual descriptions, image numbers, links to higher resolution images, links to more information, and links to the NASA Center that stores each image
HISTORY/SOCIETY
American Memory Collections: Photos & Prints- Distinctive, historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress
Smithsonian Photo Data Base- Topics ranging from Art, to Air and Space, Science, Nature, Technology, History, and People-Places
National Anthropological Archives- Society, government, field notes, maps and much more
Colorado Digitization Program- Thousands of historic images of plants, animals, people and more from Western history.
