Images
Ask Images
An images search engine
http://pictures.ask.com/
Association of Curators of Art and Design Images
Excellent gateway site if you are looking for images. Links include: guides to finding images, image search engines, organisations and associations, e-mail discussion lists, image suppliers and image collections (includes links to the NASA collection of stills, the Smithsonian image collection and many more).
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/ acadi/
British Cartoon Archive
The British Cartoon Archive is based at the University of Kent at Canterbury. It covers the history of British cartooning over the past 200 years. Go to 'Search the catalogue' to search for and view cartoons
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
British Library Images Online
Thousands of images from the British Library's collections
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/
British Pathe Stills Archive
Over 12 million digital images from British Pathe Film Archive, covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
http://www.britishpathe.com/ samples.html
Collage - The City of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery
An image database containing over 20,000 works of art. Includes images from the Guildhall Library's Print Room, one of the best sources of pictorial material on London history, including prints, drawings, watercolours, maps, photographs, and ephemera; and from the Guildhall Art Gallery which specialises in works of London interest and which is particularly strong in Victorian material
http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ collage/ app
Collect Britain
Collect Britain, the largest British Library digitisation project to date, contains thousands of images of maps, prints, drawings, photographs and documents from the British Library's collection.
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk
English Heritage Viewfinder
Search through England's industrial heritage in photographs by theme or by place and the photographs of Henry W. Taunt (1860-1922), an Oxfordshire photographer. The excellent 'Stories' section gives you text and a series of photographs on a particular subject (Cooper's Oxford Marmalade etc.).
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ viewfinder
Francis Frith Collection
Thousands of photographs of British towns and villages from the collection started by Francis Frith in the 1860s. Select by county or by town etc.
http://www.francisfrith.com
Freefoto.com
Thousands of photographs from penguins to pumpkins arranged by category and sub-category. Free for non-commercial users.
http://www.freefoto.com
Freeze Frame
Historic polar images, 1845-1982, from the Scott Polar Research Institute, with photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Each image has a detailed catalogue entry
http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/
Geograph British Isles
The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles. You can search by place, postcode or grid reference.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/
Images of Empire
'Images of Empire from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum is the largest dedicated online resource of still and moving images on the British colonial period'
http://www.imagesofempire.com
Images of England
Images of England is an English Heritage initiative and part of the National Monuments Record. The aim is to create a record of all of England's 370 000 listed buildings. Using 'Quick Search' you can search by county, building type or period. You will need to register for 'Standard' and 'Advanced' searching.
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk
Ingenious
30,000 images from the collections of the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
http://www.ingenious.org.uk/ See/
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
US national library site. See the 'Prints & Photographs Online Catalog' for over a million digital images (not just US). Other useful sections include 'Resource Lists & Bibliographies', which leads to links to further sites
http://www.loc.gov/ rr/ print/
Mary Evans Picture Library
A huge library of several image collections that you can search or browse. It has strict use conditions in the 'Legal' section
http://www.maryevans.com/
National Collection of Aerial Photography
Online images from: 1) the largest and most significant collection of historic and contemporary aerial imagery of Scotland, and 2) The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA), millions of military reconnaissance images of locations throughout the world declassified by the UK Ministry of Defence, from imagery of the DDAY landings to the 1956 Suez Crisis.
http://aerial.rcahms.gov.uk/
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
Based in Bradford and part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, this museum covers the historical, scientific and cultural aspects of photography, film and TV. There are links to its own collections and the Science and Society Picture Library.
http://www.nmpft.org.uk/
Photographic Libraries
Links to photographic collections and archives both free and priced, photo agencies, ad agencies, graphics, clipart, articles and copyright information.
http://www.photographiclibraries.com
Photos for the Future
Invites the public to send their photos so as to build 'an archive of historic photos and stories for future generations'. You can search and browse the collection. A History Channel site.
http://photosforthefuture.thehistorychannel.co.uk/
Science and Society Picture Library
The library represents over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/
Science Photo Library
Search 100,000 high quality science photos
http://www.sciencephoto.com/
Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web
Royalty free images from many sites. Check each site's own guidelines if you wish to use their images. This is an article on the About.com site
http://websearch.about.com/ / od/ bestwebsites/ tp/ free-images.02.htm
Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web
Links to thirty royalty-free images sites in this article on About.com
http://websearch.about.com/ od/ bestwebsites/ tp/ free-images.htm
Toonhound
An excellent site for anyone interested in British film animations, cartoons, TV puppets, comic strips and books.
http://www.toonhound.com
