This guide is intended to help researchers find and use images online, in print publications, and in Smith's unique special collections. It covers tools to find images such as indexes, catalogs, and Internet search engines, and provides extensive listings of image sources. These sources include historical and contemporary news media, editorial and advertising illustration, works of art, archival documents, and many other visual materials.
What's in this Guide
People, Places, Things & Events
Digital Images
Photo agencies and other commercial sources, public collections
News & Historical Photos
News photo and footage databases, full-text historical newspapers and periodicals, Smith's archival collections
Pictures in Print Sources
Pictures in books and magazines, illustration indexes, important illustrated periodicals in the libraries' collections
Smith College Special Collections
Digital and print materials in the College Archives, Sophia Smith Collection, and Mortimer Rare Book Collection
Works of Art
Digital Images
Image databases, images in national and other digital research libraries, online museum catalogs, general and specialized digital collections
Reproductions in Print Sources
Art images in books and periodicals, indexes to reproductions of works of art, Smith's Image Collections