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Smithsonian Online Collections
- This new site from the Smithsonian will serve as a portal for accessing the myriad digitized image collections from the Smithsonian's museums, archives, and libraries. Using the site, visitors have several choices to browse or search for topics or collections across the museums: free text search across multiple fields, search by artist/maker, or browse or search by department of museum.
URL: http://collections.si.edu
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Corbis
- "The Place for Pictures on the Internet"
URL: http://www.corbis.com/
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Stereogram of the week
- THE FIRST RANDOM dot stereogram was invented by Dr. Bela Julesz in 1959 as an experiment to test stereopsis, the ability to see in 3D. By using a random dot pattern, Julesz eliminated the depth cues that are inherent in recognizable images.
URL: http://www.magiceye.com/3dfun/stwkdisp.shtml
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Ad Access
- A searchable, browsable database of "advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
URL: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/index.html
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Webshots [¬earth-moon]
- Daily posting of pictures for use as background images.
URL: http://daily.webshots.com
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Picture Library Search -- National Portrait Gallery
- The (UK) National Portrait Gallery's online portrait database now has a search feature, ideal for all of us who eagerly flip to the back of a book's dust jacket for the author's picture or check a Website's "about" section for images of its creators. The online database contains approximately 10,000 images selected from the million or more portraits of famous Britons in the Gallery's collection.
URL: http://www.npg.org.uk/search
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