Search & Find

• Images
• Image Identification

American Memory Historical Collections (Library of Congress)  - A major component of the American Memory collections are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. (Click on "More browse options" at the bottom of the page to browse by format.) Images protected by copyright laws. Refer to the following Web site for additional information Copyright & Restrictions.

See also the Library of Congress Photos on Flickr .

AP PHOTO Archive - Over 400,000 contemporary and selected historical images from the archive of the Associated Press. Features state, regional and national photos from North America, and selected international sites including Europe and Asia. (Available only to UA.)

ArtCyclopedia - Both an art encyclopedia and an image database, Artcyclopedia offers overviews of artists and movements with links to online images. Its mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.

ARTstor - A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related descriptive information of art works located in leading art museums around the world. (Available only to UA.)

Bigfoto.com - Photos from various parts of the world available for downloading for personal or commercial use, with some restrictions.

Center for Creative Photography (UA) Digital Collections - Images available through the UA Institutional Repository (UAiR) currently include photographs by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and several other photographers. Images are copyrighted. Please see CCP Rights & Reproductions for information on use of these images.

Google Images - Google states that they have "The most comprehensive image search on the web." Images protected by copyright laws.

Historical Photograph Collection at the Arizona State Archives - "Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The collection includes about 90,000 images, including photographs, slides, negatives, glass plate negatives, tintypes, transparencies, postcards and others". Copyright and/or publication rights for all photographs in this collection are retained by this institution.

Image*After - Searchable database of free images and textures available for commercial and personal use.

LIFE Photo Archive hosted by Google - Search millions of photographs from the LIFE Magazine photo archive. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Images protected by copyright laws.

MorgueFile - This site provides the public and creative community with free raw photo materials. Images are available for commercial or personal use.

SmithsonianImages.com -Browse or search through selected images from the Collections of the Office of Imaging and Photographic Services at the Smithsonian Institution. Included are images from current exhibits, Smithsonian events and historic collections. See also the Smithsonian Photography Initiative for additional photographic collections. Use of text, images and other content on this website are subject to these terms and conditions .

University of Arizona Library Subject Guide pages on Finding Images:

• Art
• Architecture
• Photography

University of Arizona Library Web Exhibits - This online collection includes text and images covering many historical topics primarily related to Arizona and the Southwest. Please check each site for any notices regarding use of the images.

Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,900 reproductions.

Image Identification

TinEye - A reverse image search engine. You can submit an image (or a link to an image) to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching. Plugins are also available for browsers.