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Insight® makes sharing collections as easy as entering a collection's "key" and the institution name in Insight® as a new authorized user. The Collection Sharing Registry contains the "keys" you’ll need and a complete list of available collections. Learn More NEW! Visit Visual Collections from Cartography Associates to preview the complete list of available Insight collections. Cartography, Architecture, Photography and other collections are available for viewing in the Insight Browser and Java Client. Open multiple collections simultaneously for rich search results. Listed below are selected collections currently available to the Insight community along with a description of the collection, terms of use, and contact information. Terms of use:
Free, Public Archive
of Early American Images The Archive of Early American Images database is intended to assist historians in their quest for contemporary images to illustrate their research findings and to facilitate the study of historical images in their own right and in proper context. It is also intended to be a unique resource for picture researchers, documentary filmmakers, and others looking for material for commercial use. The database, still in the process of compilation, will have ultimately about 5,000 images. The vast majority of these images come from relatively obscure books printed in Europe in the early modern period that have in them material related to the Americas. Many of these pictures have never before been reproduced in any form. Thus, the appearance of these images in this database is the first time they have been exposed to general view outside of the book in which the image was first printed centuries ago. The books themselves are in more than a dozen languages, but predominantly in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, English, German, Italian, and Latin and all printed before ca. 1825. Charting
The Nation The Charting the Nation image collection includes a wide variety of single maps and maps in atlases and other bound books, together with important manuscript and printed texts relating to the geography and mapping of Scotland from 1550 to 1740 and beyond. The site contains invaluable source materials for the study of the history of cartography, architectural history, genealogy, military history, environmental history and archaeology, amongst many other disciplines. The site currently contains 3588 high quality images.
The Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000 The Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000 (CITY2000) includes half a million photographs created in the year 2000 with the support of the not-for-profit Comer Foundation. They document every feature of a vibrant metropolis through its millennial year. More than 200 photographers recorded the people of Chicago in every feature of their public and social lives as well as the buildings and landscape they occupied. In their own words, the project's creators brilliantly captured what they did: "Every day we hope to surprise ourselves and our viewers with what we find. We will take thrilling photographs. We will stop time." The site currently contains 9321 high quality images. David
Rumsey Historical Map Collection The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains to date over 10,000 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps. The online collection is an expanding cross section of digital images designed to highlight the depth of the collection. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser
The Farber Gravestone Collection The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource containing over 13,500 photographic images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for the largest portion of the collection. This online version of the Farber Gravestone Collection is sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society. The Web site and online image database have been created by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser Hoover
Institution Archives Poster Collection One of the largest such collections in the United States, the Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection includes more than 33,000 cataloged political posters from around the world, with more than double that number as yet uncataloged. Many thousands of posters date from World War I and World War II, though the posters cover the entire twentieth century. Posters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and France are well represented, but also included are posters from more than eighty countries. The online collection consists of selected Russian posters. Additional images from other countries will be added. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser Japanese
Historical Map Collection The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are 850 images of maps and books from this Collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. The project was initiated by Peter Zhou, Director of the East Asian Library. Funding and project management is provided by Cartography Associates and the East Asian Library. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser Virtual
Collection The Virtual Collection is a database of high quality images representing the works of artists with HIV/AIDS. It uses advanced technology to bring together and make immediately accessible a large collection of art, which otherwise would require sifting through thousands of slides. The Virtual Collection is a database of nearly 4,000 images--photography, painting, sculpture, installation, performance, etc. --drawn from the collections of Visual AIDS, Visual AIDS/Boston, Visual Aid/San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center. With the ability to find and see these works of art in detail, the Estate Project will ensure continued access, presentation, and study of the cultural legacy created by the artistic community during the AIDS crisis. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser Walter
Scott Collection Edinburgh University Library's Corson Collection of Sir Walter Scott material includes portraits of Scott and of people associated with Scott, art inspired by his novels and poems, illustrations to editions of his works, and pictures of places associated with Scott. It covers a variety of formats: oil and watercolor paintings, drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and photographs. Associated realia consist of memorabilia and other examples of material culture associated with Scott and his homes and haunts (especially Abbotsford). In addition, there are playbills, title pages, and illustrative material relating to theatrical and musical adaptations of Scott and to translations of his work. The image collection also contains manuscripts of Scott's works and correspondence drawn from the Corson Collection and Edinburgh University Library's David Laing Collection. The Image Database is wide-ranging and eclectic. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the diffusion of Scott's work in Scotland, Great Britain, and abroad, in Scott's role in the creation of Scottish national identity, and in his influence on British and foreign depictions of Scotland. Insight® eNetwork The
Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, is home to the Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection, comprised of approximately 13,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of architecture, decorative arts and sculpture. White (1832-1918), the first president of Cornell University, established the collection by donating several thousand images from his personal architectural library. In 1999, the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, in collaboration with the Department of Preservation and Conservation and the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, undertook a project to preserve, house, catalogue and digitize the entire collection. Currently, the Insight image database contains 1260 images. More will be added as the project evolves Preview the collection in Insight® Browser (click on the AD White thumbnail to enter collection) Athanasius
Kircher During his lifetime, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was widely regarded as the physical embodiment of all the learning of his age. A refugee from war-torn Germany, Kircher arrived in Rome just after Galileo's condemnation, where he was heralded as possessing the secret of deciphering hieroglyphics. Kircher had over 760 correspondents, including scientists, physicians, Jesuit missionaries, two Holy Roman Emperors, popes, and potentates throughout the globe. The subjects discussed in his voluminous correspondence cover the entire range of his interests. The correspondence constitutes a hugely important resource for the study of early modern Europe, and its interest goes far beyond the study of Kircher's own career. The correspondence is of particular interest for the history of early modern science and technique. As well as engaging in correspondence with the most eminent scientists of his time, including Leibniz, Torricelli and Gassendi, Kircher harnessed the network of Jesuit missionaries to carry out natural observations and experiments on a global scale. The Kircher Correspondence project is largely the work of two visiting scholars at Stanford, Michael John Gorman and Nick Wilding. Claire
Holt Indonesian Art Images The Claire Holt Papers contain some 1,780 slides which were created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project to document Indonesian art, architecture, ceremonies, landscapes, painting, people, sculpture, textiles, and theater. Claire Holt traveled to Indonesia in 1930 where she studied dance, worked with anthropologist Willem Stutterheim, and then assisted Swedish dance archivist and patron Rolf de Mare with his photo and film record of Indonesian dance. She came to Cornell University where, in 1962, she helped found the Modern Indonesia Project. Icelandic
Photograph Collection The Icelandic and Faroese photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell and the Icelandic photographs of Henry A. Perkins and Magnús Ólafsson are currently available for viewing and research in Insight. At the end of the nineteenth century, the British artist, photographer and traveler Frederick W.W. Howell, F.R.G.S., recorded Icelandic and Faroese landscapes, farmsteads, towns and people in a remarkable series of photographs that depicted Iceland and the Faeroe Islands on the edge of modernity. Daniel Willard Fiske, who bequeathed the Fiske Icelandic Collection to Cornell University, purchased over 400 prints from Howell around the turn of the century. Halldór Hermannsson, the collection's first curator, mounted the prints around 1923 in six albums and supplied the prints with captions. (A small group of photographs includes the work of Henry A. Perkins, an American, and Magnús Ólafsson, an Icelander.) In late 2000, a researcher in Iceland requested digital scans of 95 of these photographs for a book on Howell. This rather large request stimulated interest in digitizing the photographs held in the Fiske Collection, thereby making the images available via the Internet and greatly facilitating provision of printed copies for research and publication. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser (click on the Icelandic Photo thumbnail to enter collection) National
Palace Museum The curators of the National Palace Museum in Taipei have carefully selected roughly 5,000 images of works from their permanent collection to be included in this new digitized collection from Cartography Associates. The scope of these works spans seven millennia of Chinese history and pre-history. Works include rare books, ceramics, paintings, bronzes, jewelry, studio accessories, costumes, and more. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser Subscription Programs The
AMICA Library The AMICA Library— Art Museum Images from Cartography Associates— documents approximately 114,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations. More than an image database, the AMICA Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple views and other related multimedia. Formerly The AMICO Library™, subscribers find this resource valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources. Preview the collection in Insight® Browser Image Licensing Scholars Resource Luna Imaging and Saskia Ltd. provide Insight clients with Scholars Resource Insight ready collections. These Insight-ready images from more than one hundred museums around the world, including the Louvre and the Prado, represent one of the largest and most important image archives for the teaching of art history at both the basic core content level and in depth analysis for advanced study. Archivision Contact: sales@luna-img.com Terms of use: Purchase Image License The Archivision Digital Research Library offers in-depth coverage of important works in the history of architecture, gardens, parks and public art. Archivision now offers two options for their licensed images: Hosted Service and Local Service. With Hosted Service, institutions licensing the Digital Library have the option of accessing it in Insight hosted by Luna—you don’t need an Insight license to take advantage of this opportunity. With Local Service, Insight clients may elect to have the full Digital Library, or various Library modules, migrated to their local servers with the help of Luna’s Professional Services as a pre-built collection. |
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