Image collections via LUNA

London Architecture Online

A searchable collection of 4,500 images of architecture and urban spaces in London from the 11th to the 20th centuries, is accessible via the LUNA user-interface.

• London Architecture Online (on campus) - for Birkbeck staff and students who login to a computer at Birkbeck with a Birkbeck username & password.
• London Architecture Online (off campus) - for Birkbeck staff and students who wish to login via the internet, e.g. on a home computer (please use your Birkbeck username & password).

Other digital image collections accessible via LUNA

• NASA Images - 100,000 images and video clips of the history of space exploration and astronomy.
• US National Library of Medicine - 70,000 images (portraits, photographs, cartoons, posters) of the history of medicine from the 15th to 21st century.
• LUNA Commons - 230,000 images forming the Community Commons Collections.

Recommended online collections and portals

General content portals & search engines

• Digital librarian - images portal for 'the best of the web' as A-Z listing.
• Intute - portal for arts & humanities, health & life sciences, social sciences, science & technology.
• Wikimedia Commons - search engine for a vast array of pictures & images.

Social Science: Geography, History, Photographic Records

• British Library Images Online
• The Commons on Flickr - access to a range of historic public photography archives.
• Images for Education - news from JISC Collections - due summer 2010: 500 hours of film and 56,000 photos of "Our History" covering UK and world history during the past 25 years.
• New York Public Library Picture Collection Online - General interest/History Access.
• Historical Photographs of China - a collaboration between the University of Bristol, the University of Lincoln and the Institut d'Asie Orientale.
• SOAS digital archives & special collections - 20th century photographs of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas.
• US National Library of Medicine (LUNA) - 70,000 images (portraits, photographs, cartoons, posters) of the history of medicine from the 15th to 21st century.
• The Victorian Web - cultural and history of Victorian Britain.
• ViewFinder -online image resource of 20,000 photographs of England's history.
• Wellcome Images - The Wellcome Institute Library of historical medical images.
• the Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection - 2,455 illustrative prints of 17th century England from the University of Toronto Library