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There are many pictures (and maps, which I love) on the WWW, and many ways of finding them. Here I list sites I have found particularly interesting or useful.

Finding Pictures:

You can, of course, just use an "image search" in Google or whatever your favorite search engine is. Two more focused options:

ArtNetŪ Worldwide An art search engine, among other things.

World Wide Art Resources

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Sites with Collections of Images

The National Digital Library From the Library of Congress, Civil War and Depression era photographs and other resources.

The NYPL Digital Gallery -- From the collection of the NY Public Library. new

JSC Digital Image Collection: NASA's image library, with links to more.

ARTstor: A collection of art images. new

There are many other similar collections in just about any subject area, if you do a search.

Portfolio and Stock Sites:

There are more and more of these. Here are a few examples:

Libraries of specific kinds of images:

Maps :


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