Images
Medical Images
Atlas of Gastrointestinal Video Endoscopy
http://www.gastrointestinalatlas.com/
The atlas “displays 1936 video clips covering almost all areas of
gastrointestinal pathology detectable by endoscopy”. (AGE)
Dermatlas: Dermatology Image Atlas
http://dermatlas.med.jhmi.edu/derm/
A collection of thousands of images of skin conditions. Browse alphabetically in categories, diagnosis, or body site. Searchable. From Johns Hopkins University. (LII)
Health Education Library
http://www.healcentral.org/healapp/browse
"HEAL's mission is to provide free digital resources of the highest quality that
meet the needs of today's health sciences educators".
History of Medicine: Digital Collections
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/digital/index.html
"NLM historical collections include selected digitized material
relating to the history of medicine. Chosen from the manuscripts and
books collections, the prints and photographs collection, historical
films and videos, current and past exhibitions, and the Digital Manuscripts Program,
these digitized materials cover a spectrum of centuries and cultures
from medieval Islam to contemporary biomedical research."
Public Health Image Library
http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp
"Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's
pictures. The content
is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is
presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files".
Other Images
The Archive of Early American Images
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html
Drawn
from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University,
the Archive of Early American Images is designed "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." Visitors can browse the materials here by
time, geographical area, or subjects, which include such headings as
flora and fauna, industry, maps, and portraits. (ISP)
JSC Imagery Services Digital Images Collection
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/
NASA's
Johnson Space Center, Image Sciences Division, digital image
collection, includes press release and Earth observation images from
the manned space program from Mercury to the present(c. 9,000 image
files). The latest mission's images of Earth observations have been
loaded (c. 4-12,000 image files). Plans are to load an additional
200,000 Earth observation images in the next year. (ISP)
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/listguid.html
The
Prints & Photographs Division staff have selected sets of images in
the categories of artchitecture, history and events, people, and
related resource.
National Science Foundation: Image Library
http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/intro.html
This
Image Library was created by the National Science Foundation "to help
the science, engineering, and education communities as well as the
general public, obtain quality images for use in print and electronic
media.". The topics covered at the website include: astronomy,
chemistry, earth science, and physics, as well as topics in biology and
engineering.(ISP)
Old Pictures
http://www.old-picture.com/index.htm
The
site is a large collection of pictures dating from 1850 to 1940 that
are grouped into themed collections. Some themes include the Lincoln assassination, National Parks, Ireland, Civil War dead, and many Native American tribes