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Digital Images

The University Libraries provides all Penn State patrons access to the following sources of Digital Images.

Art, Architecture, and Landscape Pictures

This database provides access to digital images from four of Penn State’s collections:

Art History Department Visual Resource Selections: a group of more than 5,000 images documenting the history of painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts.

Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures: Images documenting the history of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban development.

The O'Connor/Yeager Collection: 19th- and early 20th-century prints depicting Pennsylvania from the Palmer Museum of Art.

University Park Campus History Collection: Photos, drawings, and documents from the University Archives chronicling the growth of Penn State's Largest Campus.

The full database is available to Penn State users only. Select portions are available to the public via the Public Site

ARTstor (pictures of art, architecture, and visual culture)

ARTstor is a database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, intended to support teaching, research and learning in visual culture and related fields. The database contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images and is growing rapidly. It is comprised of ten major collections that may be searched separately or simultaneously:

The Image Gallery: a broad collection intended to support courses in art and architectural history.

The Art History Survey Collection: key monuments of world art defined by a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts.

The Carnegie Arts and the United States Collection: a collection intended to support teaching of American art and architectural history.

The Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts: a collection that richly documents the architectural history of the Western world from earliest antiquity to the present.

The Huntington Archive of Asian Art: a broad photographic overview of the art of Asia from 3000 B.C. through the present.

The Illustrated Bartsch: Old Master European prints from the 15th to the early 19th Centuries.

The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA): mural paintings and related art and texts associated with the several hundred Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China.

The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection: drawings, models, photographs, graphic design materials, and three-dimensional objects documenting 20th-century design.

Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution: more than 10,000 high-resolution images made from historic photographs richly documenting Native American subjects (portraits, scenes, etc.).

Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection: the collection embraces approximately 36,000 high quality digital images from the Schlesinger Library's renowned photographic archives.

Access to this new project, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is currently provided as a test to a limited number of institutions. Please send your comments or questions about this new service to Henry Pisciotta (henryp@psu.edu).

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.

Authorized uses of these images include: 1. Classroom instruction and related activities; 2. student assignments; 3. public display or public performance in a university museum, gallery or similar facility including use in exhibit labels and other components of the exhibit; 4. public display or public performance as part of a professional presentation at a seminar, conference, or workshop, 5. use in a student or faculty portfolio, including non-public display thereof, and 6. use in a dissertation, including reproductions of the dissertation for personal use and library deposit.

Updates: annually

Newspaper Photos (AccuNet/AP Photo Archive)

This database only works for “newsworthy” architecture & design. An average of 800 state, regional, national and international photos are added daily to the AP Photo Archives. After a year, approximately 200 of the best daily photos are retained permanently.

Permitted uses of these images include: 1. printing copies for educational and research use; 2. creating PowerPoint presentations, slides, and multimedia presentations when usage is confined to the licensed institution; 3. posting on a secure web site available only to authorized users; 4.e-mailing single images to an individual e-mail recipient.