Theatre 252: Set Design I
Picture Research: Sources & Methods
Spring 2008 - Ed Check
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

Print Sources | Licensed Collections| Internet Searching & Sources | Using Images

PRINT SOURCES: IMAGE SEARCHING IN BOOKS & PERIODICALS

Library Collections

Find Images and Art & Architecture library research guides
Provides links to online resources covering a wide variety of topics (some available only to members of the Smith College community).

Five College Library Catalog
is useful to find illustrations in books and catalogs. Helpful subheadings for finding heavily illustrated publications are:
-- Exhibitions | -- In art | -- Illustrations | -- Photographs | -- Portraits

Location of Art Library Materials
is a browsing guide to the subject arrangement of the books, catalogs, and other resources in Hillyer Art Library.

Illustrated Periodicals
This is very selective list of long-running titles. Browse through the stacks in Neilson and Hillyer near these call numbers for many more examples.

Architecture & Interior Decoration Magazines
Architectural Record. 1981-date. Art Periodical NA1 .A6
House Beautiful. 1897-2001. Art Periodical NA7100 .H65

Fashion & Women's Magazines
Good Housekeeping. 1888-1992. Sophia Smith Collection
Harper’s Bazaar. 1867-1998. Art Periodical TT500. H3
The Ladies’ Home Journal. 1892-1992. Sophia Smith Collection.
McCall’s. 1950-2001. Sophia Smith Collection.
Vogue. 1950-date. Sophia Smith Collection uncataloged

General Interest & News Magazines
Colliers. 1895-1957. Neilson Periodicals AP2 .C65
Fortune. 1930-date. Neilson Periodicals HF5001 .F7
Life. 1930-1972. Neilson Periodicals AP2 .L547
Saturday Evening Post. 1921-date. Neilson Periodicals AP2 .S2

Digitized Historical Newspapers

New York Times (1851-2002)
Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
Washington Post (1877 to 1991)
The Times (London) (1785-1985)

Illustration Indexes

Indexes to specific images in well-illustrated popular periodicals like American Heritage, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and other titles.

Art Reference N7525 .I558 and Neilson Reference N7525 .I558
Illustration Index. 2nd ed., 1950-June 1963; 3rd ed., July 1963-1971; 4th
ed., 1972-1976; 5th ed., 1977-1981; 6th ed., 1982-1986; 7th ed., 1987-1991; 8th ed., 1992-1996. New York : Scarecrow Press, 1957-1998.

LICENSED IMAGE RESOURCES

Major Image Databases

ARTstor
A library of 500,000 digital images of works of art and other cultural materials. Images range from standard art history survey material to specialized collections documenting (for example) the design and architecture collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art, women's history, and Native American art and culture.

INSIGHT
The Luna Imaging INSIGHT database provides access to over 150,000 images including digital images including numerous objects from Smith's Mortimer Rare Book Room, and Museum of Art, as well as images used for teaching and study on the Smith campus. Members of the Smith community should contact Jacy Birdsong (x3105) to set up an Insight account.

Other Subscription Databases with Significant Image Content

Academic Search Premier: Image Collection
The database includes of thousands of current and historic photographs and other images of people, places, and natural science topics--many from the Canadian news press. Select "Images" from the green menu bar.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
Covers 1984s to the present. Current year's photos from the Associated Press photo library and over a million photos dating from the 1840s to the present with text captions.

Dictionary of National Biography
10,000 portraits in all media are included in this standard reference source for British biography (no living subjects are included). Images can be searched by sitter, artist, date. Biographies also includes lists of other portraits of the subject.

Groveart.com
This comprehensive encyclopedia of art provides links to 150,000 digital images from The Bridgeman Art Library, Art Resource, from museum and other art websites.

IMAGES ON THE INTERNET: SEARCHING & SOURCES

Thomas, Ruth S. Finding Images on the Web. Boston University Libraries. Created September 1998, last updated December 2006.

Image Search Engines

A Review of Image Search Engines. Technical Advisory Service for Images. May 2006.
Evaluation of major search engines with image search options as well as specilized image search engines. Includes links to many image sites.

AltaVista Image Search
Google Image Search
OAIster
Academically oriented digital resources harvested from educational and research institutions, national libraries, and other organizations. Select "limit by resource type: image"
Picsearch
Yahoo Image Search (select Images tab)

Public Collections

Collect Britain. British Library.
More than 90,000 digital images of maps, prints and drawings, photographs, and other documents, and rare early sound recordings from around the globe.

American Memory. Library of Congress.
A "gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." Use the Collection Finder to access the collection by broad subject, date, place, or material format.

Gallica. Bibliotheque National de France.
Over 80,000 digital images of photographs, prints, drawings, maps, manuscripts, books, and other materials documenting the history and culture of France.

NYPL Digital. New York Public Library.
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." (now includes the Picture Collection Online)

Picture Australia. National Library of Australia.
Search engine for Australia-related images of "people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad." Includes works of art in all media, contemporary news and historical photos, historical objects and printed materials.

Visual Arts Data Service. Arts and Humanities Data Service, Kings College.
A collection of over 100,000 digital images from educational institutions around Britain. Especially strong in applied arts and design-related material.

Photo Agencies & Other Commercial Sites

Corbis
Corbis offers a preeminent collection of more than 100 million creative, entertainment and historic images, a comprehensive footage library."
Getty Images
New York Times. Photos & Graphics
Time-Life Pictures

Flickr.com
Free photo sharing and management website that provides access to thousands of photos on all topics submitted by amateur and professional photographers.

Realtor.com
"Official site of the National Association of Realtors" includes listings, most with images, of residential and commercial properties for sale throughout the U.S.

USING IMAGES: RIGHTS & CITATION FORMATS

General Guidelines & Standards

Harper, Georgia. Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials. Crash Course in Copyright. University of Texas. Last updated March 30, 2005.
Note Rules of Thumb for Digitizing and Using Images for Educational Purposes.

Smith Guidelines

Using Images: Guidelines. Smith College, Imaging Center.

Copyrights and Usage. Smith College Museum of Art.
Contact the museum (artmuseum@email.smith.edu) for permission to publish (print or electronic) images of works of art in the SCMA collections.

Publication of Audio-Visual Materials. Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection.

Examples of Other Guidelines

Library of Congress Legal Notices and Privacy and Publicity Rights. American Memory. Library of Congress. Last updated May 24, 2006.

Corbis Content License Agreement

Citation Formats for Images

Style Manuals & Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries.
Includes a section on citing images of works of art and photographic illustrations.

HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN

Barbara Polowy, Head of the Hillyer Art Library and instructor for your library research session, 121 Hillyer Hall, 585-2941

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