Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies 

• NYPL Digital Gallery -- includes thousands of images from prints, books, and historical maps published in Russia and adjacent areas between 1730 and 1935. Most notably, includes the several series issued by 19th-century collector and scholar, Dimitrii Aleksandrovich Rovinskii. Special collections include:
  
  • Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
  • Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
• Semyon Fridlyand Archive Collection (University of Denver) -- digital archive of over 10,000 photographs of daily life in the Soviet Union (1940s-1980s) by photojournalist and photo editor of Ogonek (the Soviet Union’s version of Life magazine). During his 40-year career, Fridlyand photographed every major theme in official Soviet history, from industrialization and collectivization, to the building of a Soviet empire stretching from the Pacific to the Baltic, and from the Arctic to the Black Sea. Fridlyand also covered the battlefields of WWII.
• Hoover Political Poster Database -- search by Country and Subject
• The William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection (University of Washington) -- digitized photographs of Russian architecture, primarily but not exclusively ecclesiastical, through color and black-and-white photographs made over the last thirty three years.
• Inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Digital Projects-- search for "poster" or "photo"
• Entsiklopediia otechestvennogo kino SSSR/SNG  -- a searchable database of material related to Soviet and post-Soviet Russian film.  Entries are cross-referenced and often illustrated, but available in Russian language only.

Academic

• Subscription Image Databases
  • AccuNet/AP multimedia archive
    Includes a photo database and graphics database from the Associated Press that provides over two million photographs dating back to 1826, and a professionally produced collection of more than 45,000 maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags, illustrations, etc. Search all the words in photo cut-lines. Search for individuals or events (e.g. International Women's Day). Set up for academic users, with easy copyright permissions help page.
  • ARTstor
    Provides access to a large collection of images covering art, architecture, and archaeology for many time periods and cultures, including Slavic.
    
  • Complete Index to World Film since 1895
    Includes the credits of more than 381,000 films from 175 countries. A keyword search is available across the database by title, person, year, origin, or genre, with hypertext links among films, actors, directors, and other technical credits.

• Online Image Databases
  • World Digital Gallery (Library of Congress) -- includes hundreds of free, high-quality images from prints, books, and historical maps related to Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe
  • American Memory Project -- Library of Congress' photography resources project, includes non-US images.
  • Visual Information Access (Harvard University Libraries) -- union catalog of visual resources, focusing on artistic and cultural materials. including Slavic (e.g. images of costumes from Ballets Russe).
  • The REALIA Project (Rich Electronic Archive for Language Instruction Anywhere, Oberlin College Digital Collections) -- a searchable digitized media database that publishes royalty-free, faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. The focus of the REALIA Project is realia: Materials which convey the everyday life of different cultures, including Slavic.
    

Commercial

• Corbis (Bill Gate's image collection), claiming to be “world's largest collection of digital images. For sale, but nice thumbnail index.
• National Geographic Photography
• Flickr-- Yahoo.com's image sharing website, 32 millions of images worldwide, under Creative Commons license.
• Google.com Advanced Image Finder -- locates images imbedded in web pages; best used for proper names