Website: https://somedarkplace.com Conditions: This site is an ongoing digital cataloging project of a private collection of cabinet cards and cartes des visites, photographic images produced between 1859 and 1900. This site is updated daily. Source: Many thanks to Christopher L. Jorgenson for alerting us to his private collection, and for putting high res images online.
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Institute of Realism of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period – REALonline
Website: http://realonline.imareal.sbg.ac.at A website hosted by the University of Salzburg, containing searchable files of images and objects from the Middle Ages. The website is entirely in German, and the English search function doesn't appear to work. If you can negotiate through the somewhat cumbersome search interface there are wonderful pictures. Once you have selected images choose … Continue reading Institute of Realism of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period – REALonline
University of Leiden / Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
Website: https://socrates.leidenuniv.nl/R/?func=search-simple&local_base=gen01-disc Conditions: The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) has brought in more than 2,400 photos to Wikipedia. Leiden University Libraries (UBL), which manages this photo collection, has made this donation possible together with the Working Group on Special Scientific Libraries (WSWB). Imports of these images in Wikimedia Commons (the "Image … Continue reading University of Leiden / Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
Openn, Primary Digital Resources (University of Pennsylvania)
Website: http://openn.library.upenn.edu Conditions: OPenn contains complete sets of high-resolution archival images of cultural heritage material from the collections of its contributing institutions, along with machine-readable descriptive and technical metadata. All materials on OPenn are in the public domain or released under Creative Commons licenses as Free Cultural Works. Please see specific collections and documents for applicable … Continue reading Openn, Primary Digital Resources (University of Pennsylvania)
WorldImages / California State University IMAGE Project
Website: http://worldimages.sjsu.edu Conditions: You are free to use these images for non-profit educational purposes, but we ask that you give credit to the copyright holders who retain rights to the images. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format … Continue reading WorldImages / California State University IMAGE Project
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