Guides: Course Guide ~ HIST 208 / Asian Temples in a Digital World: Still Images and Video

Images from Online Sources

AP Images Collection This link opens in a new window
Access to over 12 million current and historical news photographs, and 36,000 audio sound bites. Also includes 340,000 graphics images, including maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags and more. Coverage: 1826-present.
Note: Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
Note: Registration required to download images.
Note: Artstor content is migrating to JSTOR, and the Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024.
An image library for the arts and sciences. A rich collection of more than one million high-resolution images and tools for teaching and research. Subjects include architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. Coverage: prehistory to present.
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Creative Commons Search
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. The search page provides a portal to image and media sites with content that is licensed for public use.
EBSCOhost Image Collection
More than a million photographs, graphs, charts, maps, and illustrations with an emphasis on world news and events. To search images, (1) login to Academic Search Premier and choose (2) More > Images from the blue banner atop the page.
Asian Historical Architecture
A photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage, including over 33,000 photos of 1,288 sites in twenty-three countries, with background information and virtual tours.

American Museum of Natural History
Contains over 250,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects representing the peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific Islands, searchable by country and culture.
Asian Art at the Met
The Department of Asian Art fulfills a unique role at The Met by representing the artistic achievements of six major cultural traditions that encompass 5,000 years of history, half the world's population, more than twenty modern nations, and a vast region that ranges from Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia across the Himalayas to China, Korea, and Japan.
Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art is a dynamic environment that stimulates learning, promotes understanding, and inspires personal connections to the ideas, cultures, and art of Himalayan regions.
Freer Gallery of Art
Part of the Smithsonian, the Freer Gallery houses one of the premier collections of Asian art.
Sackler Gallery
Part of the Smithsonian, the Sackler Gallery contains South Asian sculpture, Chinese jades and bronzes, and modern Japanese ceramics.

Books are also a good source for high resolution images. Try adding some of the phrases listed below to searches in the library catalog.

Pad.ma
Pad.ma - short for Public Access Digital Media Archive - is an online archive of densely annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non-commercial use.

How Do I Find ~ Streaming Video
by Kristin Strohmeyer Last Updated Oct 20, 2023 204 views this year