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Images

• Ad*Access - Advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
• The Advertising Archives: Historical & Current Print Ads - A searchable collection of print and TV advertisements, magazine covers, cinema posters, comics, postcards, cigarette cards, and more.
• AP Images
  Associated Press archive of photographs, from 1844 to the present, audio files of radio broadcasts, texts of wire stories, and info-graphics. The Photo Archive features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as international photos all available moments after they move on the AP's spot picture system. An average of 800 photos a day feed into the Photo Archive, and remain there for a minimum of one year.
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  Compiled by the library of Congress. A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Over 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
• Art and Architecture
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center Database
  More than 80,000 art images. OhioLINK Access Only
  • World Accessible Local Collections of the Art and Architecture Database
    Includes contributions from the University of Cincinnati & the Akron Art Museum.
• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a continually expanding image database covering architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. 
• Digital Collections
  Digital materials in support of the University Libraries mission to provide excellent research collections.
• Digital Health Sciences Images
  Links to free and subscription images in health sciences and health sciences education.
• Earth Science World - Search or browse for archaeological, geological, environmental, geophysical, and other kinds of images. Plants, animals, and weather or satellite images are also available.
• Greater Cincinnati Memory project
  Over 6000 images from the pre-1940 Greater Cincinnati area.
• Historic and Archival Collections
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center Database
  Collection of historic materials. Contains images from the Ohio University Dept. of Archives and Special Collections and from the Wright State University libraries and more than 200 photos and letters from the E.W. Scripps Archive at Ohio University.
• LANDSAT 7 Satellite Image Server
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center Database
  Ohio based satellite data, including infrared and true color composite.
• New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
  A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
• NYPL Digital Gallery

The New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

• OhioLINK Digital Media Center Homepage
  The Digital Media Center (DMC) provides widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information for the community and the world.
• Picture History
  Find the pictures you need in this easy to use digital library of high quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history. 
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1867-1970
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center Database
  Large scale street plans, showing the outdone of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
• Social Sciences Database
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center Database
  Featuring more than 500 images of Mayan archaeology from Oberlin College.
• Special Collections and Archives
  This collection includes photographs of the Wright family and of the Wrights' flying exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
• Visual Resources
  A list of visual resource sites created by the DAAP Library.
• Visual resources online: Digital images of primary materials on public Web sites

The article from C&RL News, May 2008, Vol. 69, No. 5 describes and contains links to selected online digital collections created by institutions across the United States.

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Sound

• Classical Music Library
  20,000 tracks of music. Licensed from 30+ classical music labels. UC access only.
• Naxos Music Library
  80,000 tracks of music. Primarily classical standard repertoire, with some jazz, popular, world music, and historical recordings. UC access only.
• DRAM
  1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) from with complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other inportant contemporary labels
• OhioLINK Digital Media Center Homepage
  The Digital Media Center (DMC) provides widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information for the community and the world.

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Videos

Search the UC library catalog for videos and DVDs only

• Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center Database
  Featuring 600 physics demonstrations available for viewing and downloading.
• Foreign Language Database
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center Database
  Featuring videos from the Viewpoints project of the Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium, Inc.
• National Archives Videos
  Historic films from the National Archives collection - includes videos from NASA, United Newsreel, and the Dept. of the Interior.
• OhioLINK Digital Video Collection
  Digital Video Collection contains full-length educational videos covering a wide variety of subjects. It currently includes videos from two distributors, Ambrose Video and Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

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