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Google Image Search - Over 400 million images from the Internet. Similar sites include: All the Web Image Search, AltaVista Image Search

Corbis - large collection (more than 2 million items) of photography and fine art images available for sale and licensing.

Finding Images on the Web - A tutorial on the legal use of copyrighted images, image searching, downloading, and use. Includes a great collection of links to art, science, map, advertisement, photograph, and other image collections and image search engines. Created by art and art history bibliographer Ruth S. Thomas at the Mugar Memorial Library of Boston University. See also RLG DigiNews FAQ on Image Search Engines

ImageBase - "A searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco."

OAIster - a Mellon-funded project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, to create a wide-ranging collection of free, useful, previously difficult-to-access digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone. See also The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project

Time Life Pictures - Collection of millions of photos published since 1930 in Time, Life, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time-Life Books. More than one million historical images (prints, illustrations, and photographs) from the London Mansell Collection. Requires free registration.

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