The website Historic Cities is a partnership between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library. It contains historical maps, literature, and documents, and the sites creators are interested in user contributions. Maps of the Holy Land, Ancient Jerusalem and maps of over 50 countries are available in high and low resolution.
Palomar Arts Media Lab
Tag: digital images
Images from the History of Medicine/ Image Database
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM). The purpose of the IHM database is to assist users in finding and viewing visual material for private study, scholarship, and research. The images present a comprehensive and fascinating visual record of the history of medicine, from 16th-century woodcuts to early dental cartoons to posters dealing with the AIDS epidemic. It is the users’ responsibility to determine compliance with the law when reproducing, transmitting, or distributing images found in IHM. Users can search by catagory or browse all images. More information about the collections can be found here
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library’s collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more. It is a great resource! The site allows you to browse by subject, names, or topic. Some of its collections include:
Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
Illustrated books from the 16th century to the early 20th depicting the animals of the world. Based on the scholarly bibliography of the same title by Miriam Gross, published in Biblion, The Bulletin of The New York Public Library in 1994.
Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants, and Trees, 1550-1900
Thousands of art and scientific prints, illustrating medicinal plants, spectacular garden flowers, exotic tropical blooms, trees and ferns. Includes many different printmaking techniques, from woodcuts to stipple engravings to color-printed lithographs.
If you like the site the library has recently made some of its collection available in the Flickr Commons
