Images Collections at Duke 

• AP Images - photos from the Associated Press, historic, contemporary, etc.
• Flickr.com - largest free image collection for scholars & public   EXPLANATION
• ARTstor - not just art, but historic photos, buildings, popular culture; over 100,000 images
• Insight Visual Collections - High-quality image collections (not all available to the public)
• Duke Digital Collections - Duke's Special Collections' Library scans of advertising, historic photos, manuscripts, Women's Studies

Embedded Collections (image searching in journal databases)

• ProQuest - in "Advanced Search" limit the field to "Image Caption"
• Jstor - type title in key-word search, a separate tab appears for found images (some in color)

Commercial Collections (charge for use, but browsing is free)

• Corbis - Bill's Gates' image fee-based image service; selected categories can be royalty-free
• Getty Images - a stock images service (generally for commerical purposes, not associated with the Getty Museum)

NEW!   Sites on Flickr  Suggest a Site

• Duke University Archives - historic Duke photos (fun and serious)
• Nasher Museum of Art's official Flickr page

 NATIONAL ART INDEXES

France
 RMN (French Art Museum) - massive image collection from French art museums, Réunion des Musées Nationaux

Germany
Marburger Index - [this is art from any country held in Germany and Austria] - interface only in German

Art Museum websites generally have a selection of high-quality images from their individual collections. Look them up directly through museum name.

See also,

Art Index/Art Abstracts - online periodical database which indexes images in art journals separately from the articles.  Since art magazines are heavily illustrated with unique images, this is a major source for pictures of art.

• ARTstor - strong on classical images
• Flickr.com - Yahoo's free picture-sharing website.  Scholars & public's images include many archaeological sites, museum objects 
• Visual Media Collections at Duke (formerly MDID@Duke) - Dept of Art, Art Hist & Visual Studies study collection, Classical Collection, and commercial art collections (Archivision, Davis, and Saskia). 
• Camio - art from American art museums (includes ancient).  All photos take directly from objects
• Index of Christian Art - Princeton's photo initative, includes late classical religious (not just Christian) art
• Perseus Digital Library - fundamentally a classical-subject digital collection, other periods have been added
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum online (partial), complete collection, Lilly Library Locked Stacks - a corpus catalog of all known ancient pottery (in museums and private collections).  Ongoing.  Begun (and most complete) as a printed-book collection.  Volumes out of print are scanned and available online.

Microfiche

Index of Ancient Art and Architecture [microform].  - 100,000 images microfilmed from the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut collection.  Use the printed index guide (a book) to locate images.  Images are scanable via Lilly's microfiche reader. Lilly Microfiche M204. 

• ARTstor - click photography collections, then search 
• Flickr.com - largest free image collection for scholars & public MORE INFO
• George Eastman House- largest photography collection in the United States

• Visual Media Collections at Duke (formerly MDID@Duke) - Image collections developed by Duke academic departments including Art, Art History & Visual Studies; Classical Studies; Information Science + Information Studies: Nasher Museum of Art; Music; Theater; the School of Nursing (only SoN); and the Visualization Technology Group; as well as commercially licensed art and architecture collections.

• Life Magzine Photo Archive - the archive of the magazines of Time/Life (not necessarily the photos that appeared in the magazine).  Strong subject search [a near-complete run of Life magazine is at Lilly Library]

• Marburger Index - art held in German collections, good for classical sculpture [click the British flage for English]

Medical

• CINAHL Plus - Nursing and Allied Health literature - click the 'visual search' tab under the search boxes to find images 

Medical- History

• Historical images in medicine - Duke Medical Center Library's Historical Images in Medicine
• Images from the History of Medicine - National Library of Medicine Images
• National and International collection of medical image databases, maintained by Duke Medical Center History of Medicine collection.
  

Science Portal

• TASI - Comprehensive image portal for scientific images
• NEW!  Bridgeman History of Science Image 

Images Collections at Duke
   Duke Digital Collections - Advertising, historic photos, manuscripts, Women's Studies

Manuscripts & Early Printed
   Archive.org -  The "texts" section contains many image included in early printed books.
   Medieval - CMRS

History of Science - see Science section, below

Holocaust
   Shoah Foundation Images - Survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust

American
   Harper's Weekly - scans of original line drawings from the magazine (great for Civil War)
   Picturing U.S. History - Online Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence, maintained by the American Social History Project.

Britain/Ireland
  Institute for British and Irish Studies (USC) IBIS

Posters
   Soviet-era posters - a collection on flickr

Christian

Art in the Christian Tradition - Vanderbilt University's collection of historic an contemporary relgious art and symbolism.  A sophisticated tool employing the ICONCLASS hierarchy.

Index of Christian Art - Princeton's photo initative, includes late classical religious (not just Christian) art