All entries for Tuesday 29 August 2006
August 29, 2006
Images, History of Medicine. US National Library of Medicine
Library link
Short description
Online collection of nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph archives of the History of Medicine Division of the US National Library of Medicine.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/copy.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Library link
Short description
Browse or search several large NASA databases for online images or multimedia which documents the history of space exploration.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html
Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory, Library and Archives Canada
Library link
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/framingcanada/index-e.html
Short description
Library and Archives Canada has many online images. Framing Canada: a Photographic Memory offers a searchable database of digitized images from 1843 to the mid-20th century. In addition, there are several thematic essays with accompanying images.
Source website
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/notices/index-e.html
Images Canada
Library link
http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html
Short description
Images Canada has several online galleries and collections as well as an image searching facility.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-230-e.html
Online exhibits, Canadian Archival Information Network
Library link
http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/virtual/search.asp?todo=all
Short description
The Canadian Archival Information Network has many online exhibits which cover topics from WWI to war. There are too many exhibits to list individually so the deeplink provided is to a list of the exhibit titles.
Source website
http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/index.html
Copyright and usage conditions
Not specified.
National Portrait Gallery of Canada
Library link
http://www.portraits.gc.ca/009001-1000-e.html
Short description
The National Portrait Gallery of Canada is currently constructing an online gallery. Currently some portraits are available online.
Source website
http://www.portraits.gc.ca/009001-1000-e.html
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/notices/index-e.html#e
Image gallery, Virtual Museum of Canada
Library link
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Gallery/image_gallery_features.html
Short description
The Virtual Museum of Canada has an online image gallery featuring thousands of online images of museum artefacts, photos and paintings etc.
Source website
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/index_noflash.html
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Common/copyright.html
History images, The Online Archive of California
Library link
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/browse-images/History.html
Short description
List of links to online images held by the California Digital library which brings together historical materials from a variety of Californian institutions, including over 120,000 images.
Source website
Copyright and usage conditions
http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/about/copyright.html
Daguerreotype galleries. The Daguerreian Society
Library link
http://www.daguerre.org/gallindex.php
Short description
The Daguerreian Society has several galleries of daguerreotypes online.
Source website
http://www.daguerre.org/home.php
Copyright and usage conditions
http://www.daguerre.org/fairuse.php