Stanford University Libraries Digital Image Collections
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The Stanford University
Libraries maintains an online collection of digital images called Image Gallery . The site provides access to over 50,000 digital images scanned from collections owned by the Stanford Libraries. Users can search image metadata, browse collections and view images at high resolutions.
The collections include digitized photographs, maps, manuscripts, lithographs, prints, rare books, and posters related to a variety of topics. Featured collections include:
The site also includes images included in the Stanford University Visual Resources Center Imagebase, which is used to support teaching and research at Stanford.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
Libraries maintains an online collection of digital images called Image Gallery . The site provides access to over 50,000 digital images scanned from collections owned by the Stanford Libraries. Users can search image metadata, browse collections and view images at high resolutions.
The collections include digitized photographs, maps, manuscripts, lithographs, prints, rare books, and posters related to a variety of topics. Featured collections include:
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Douglas MenuezDoug MenuezDoug Menuez is an American photographer. His career encompasses photojournalism, documentary, commercial, and commissioned photography...
Photography Collection - Herbert Matter Photograph Collection
- Leon Kolb Collection of Portraits
- Medieval Manuscript Fragments
- Stanford Historical Photograph Collection
- The Barry Ruderman Map Collection
- The Reid W. Dennis Collection of California Lithographs
The site also includes images included in the Stanford University Visual Resources Center Imagebase, which is used to support teaching and research at Stanford.