Resources for Images:

Image Collections:

Below are some of the image repositories available to you as a St. Thomas student, followed by a number of free collections.

• Academic Search Premier: Image Collection. (thousands of current and historic photographs and other images of people, place and natural science topics. The word "More" is on the menu bar. Pull down that menu and select "Images."
• Bridgeman Art Library Archives. (online access to masterpieces of national museums to private collections, includes eight thousand collections)
• Dictionary of National Biography. (50,000 portraits in all media in this British biography source)
• JSTOR Images (Provides access to articles which include images)
• Oxford Art Online. (5,500 images and links to others)
• St. Thomas Art History Department Visual Resources Library Collection.

  About the Collection

  The Visual Resources Library collection consists of over 65,000 art and architecture slides of varied mediums and geographic areas from prehistoric time to the 21st century. .

  The collection is developed in response to departmental curricular needs and is utilized by Art History staff and students; however, other faculty and students are welcome to make use of the collection. Plans are underway to digitize the collection and make the catalog available for searching via the Web.

  General Information

  The Visual Resources Library is located at 2057 Portland Avenue in the Department of Art History house.

  Hours of Operation: Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Fridays 8:00 a.m. to noon. Because the VRL is operated by one full-time professional and work-study students, there are times it may be closed during posted hours. It is recommended that patrons outside the Art History department call ahead to confirm availability.

  Staff: Lori Shimer, Visual Resources Curator, llshimer@stthomas.edu, telephone: (651) 962-5562, fax (651) 962-5861

Free Collections

• American Memory. Library of Congress. (this site offers more than 7 million ditigal items from more than 100 historical collections.)
• Art of Botanical Illustration (1491-1920). traces the development of botanical art through the centuries, highlighting image from the U of Mn Libraries.
• Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame. (comprehensive online collection of images and descriptions of Chartres Cathedral)
• Digital Scriptorium. (an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts).
• Google Images. (includes billions of images).
• Metropolitan Museum of Art. (over 6500 images from the Met's collections).
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts. (access to images in the MIA's collections).
• Minneapolis Public Library, photo collection. (approximately 10,000 images of people, buildings, and events (principally Minnesota) from the 1850s to 1960).
• Minnesota Historical Society Visual Resources Database. (photographs, art, posters)
• Minnesota Reflections. (nearly 20,000 images and documents offering a broad view of Minnesota's history. Includes plat books, art and architecture, diaries, maps).
• NYPL Digital. New York Public Library. (access to thousands of digital images from their collections, including illuminated manuscripts, rare prints and photographs, maps, etc.)
• University of Minnesota Libraries Images. (thousands of images, including those from the Bell Museum, University Archives, World War I and II posters, and African-American literature cover art).

Last updated: September 10, 2008.

Contact: Susan Price, 962-5011, or sdprice@stthomas.edu for more help.