Research Guides: History: Find Images &amp; Video

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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online offers users access to: Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as additional articles and bibliographies. Account allows for a maximum of three concurrent users.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
The ARTstor Digital Library is an online resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
To use the full functionality of the Artstor Digital Library you must be logged in through the library website and have created a personal account.
-The basic/advanced search on the Artstor homepage searches the Artstor Digital Library and Public Collections [we have no institutional collections]
-You do not need a personal account to search but you do need it to save images.
-Your saved images will appear in Personal Collections, you will have to login to retrieve/view your images.
-Images saved for a class or presentation can be shared in Groups. Anybody with a personal account can create a Group (you will see UMBC examples when you click on Groups)
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Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Online
The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
Library of Congress: Digital collections
Search millions of items in many formats and languages. Explore a growing treasury of digitized materials. Consult with staff online or in one of the research centers to find what you're looking for.
International Center of Photography
Permanent collection contains more than 200,000 prints and related materials that range from the earliest forms of photography to contemporary work.

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand‘s platform provides every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study. It supplies 37,000 titles in 985 categories.
Films on Demand: Archival Films & Newsreels Collection (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
This collection of 4,606 titles is a trove of archival and historical films from multiple sources that supplements the Films on Demand: Master Academic Package.

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Additional video streaming resources can be found by visiting Resources for Streaming Video

American Radio History
Online library of broadcasting magazines, annuals, and yearbooks (primarily 1930-2010) including Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook. All material is copy protected, readable but not for download or copying.
Radio Archives
Listen to or download classic radio shows.
CONELRAD
CONELRAD is the creation of writers who grew up in the shadow of the BOMB and all its attendant pop culture fallout. CONELRAD includes Cold War primary source material from government publications, television, news sources, photographs and more.
C-Span Video Library
The C-SPAN Archives includes all C-SPAN programming aired since 1987, and can be viewed online for free. The Archives records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Duplicate copies of most programs that have aired since 1987 can be obtained and used for education, research, review or home viewing purposes.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting [Library of Congress]
The AAPB is an ongoing collaboration of The Library of Congress and WGBH in Boston to preserve the most significant public radio and television programs of the last 60 years. Current content includes over 40,000 hours (7,000 audio and video files) of broadcasting to date.
Archive of American Televison
The Archive of American Television includes over 750 oral history interviews (over 3000 hours) with the legends of television. These interviews chronicle the birth and growth of American TV History as it evolves, and make the interviews available worldwide.
Marmia: Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive
MARMIA focuses on collecting records of marginalized individuals and communities within the Mid-Atlantic, as well as marginalized audiovisual technologies and genres. Content hosted by Mid-Atlantic Media.

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