American
landscape and architectural design, 1850-1920 (Harvard Univ.) This
collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view
of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920.
Represents the work of Harvard faculty, as well as that of prominent landscape
architects throughout the country. Offers views of cities, specific
buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's
Park System. In addition to photographs, views include plans, maps, &
models. Hundreds of private estates from all over the U.S. are represented in
the collection through contemporary views of their houses and gardens.
Also indexed in the American Memory project. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
American memory (U.S. Library
of Congress) Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs,
recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress'
Americana collections. http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
California heritage
project (UC Berkeley, Library) A "digital" archive
containing photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the
Bancroft Library. Includes many historical images of SF Bay Area places. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/3
History of
landscape architecture (Univ. of Oregon, Dept. of Landscape
Architecture) A selection of digitized color photographs of gardens,
agriculture, classical Western landscapes, paradise gardens, Islamic, Spanish,
Moghul, medieval gardens, 18th & 19th century America. Not searchable. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~helphand/homepage.html
Italian
renaissance gardens (Monash Univ.) Includes unattributed images and
plans of Italian sites, e.g., Villa Trebbio, Villa Farnese (Caprarola), and
Villa d'Este (Tivoli). Brief essay by F.W. Kent. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visual_culture/projects/diva/italian.html
Looking for plans &
pictorial sources (UC Berkeley, Library) A selected list of books
that provide views, plans, sections, elevations, or details of important
buildings and sites. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/pict.html
S.P.I.R.O. (UC Berkeley,
Architecture Slide Library) The visual online public access catalog to
approximately 16% of the Architecture Slide Library's collection of over 200,000
35mm slides. The collection is available to UCB faculty and graduate
students. http://shanana.berkeley.edu/spiro/
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online digital
media library. Presently, the library system contains the National
Image Library--the Service's collection of public domain still photos. You may
search all the images through the National Image Library link, or you may search
by individual collections, which are listed underneath. We plan to add
additional media collections to the system in the future.
http://images.fws.gov/
Vilar:
virtual landscape gallery Searchable database of 1700+
photographic images (primarily color) of European landscapes and gardens.
Search by century (15th-20th), site name (use "touristic" search),
garden feature (use "ornaments and construction" search), etc.
In French or Englis. http://www.vilar.com/
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