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SPECIAL IMAGE DATABASES

ART AMICO - Art Museum Image Consortium Art.com - Art reproduction online store with large, searchable image catalog SILS Art Image Browser - Art, architectural, and museum object images from 4 museums/collections National Portrait Gallery [US] - shows the most influential characters in United States history portrayed by the finest artists of their generation ASTRONOMY/SPACE Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive - Pictures along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer Hubble Space Telescope Greatest Hits - Unprecedented pictures of celestial objects Astronomical Image Library - Helps out by allowing you to search for images of any object you specify. NASA Image eXchange - NIX returns thumbnail sized images, textual descriptions, image numbers, links to higher resolution images, links to more information, and links to the NASA Center that stores each image

ANIMALS FWS National Image Archive - The collection includes images of a variety of species including birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals and plants Animals at the Smithsonian's National Zoo - The photos in this library are from the vault of the National Zoo eNature.com Guides to North America - Online field guides covering over 4800 species Garst Photographic Collection - Thousands of color photographs of animals from around the world HISTORY/SOCIETY UNESCO Photobank - a wide range of subjects related to the UNESCO's fields of competence: education, science, culture and communication American Memory Collections: Photos & Prints - Distinctive, historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress Amazing Picture Machine - Many collections with emphasis on American history and science Smithsonian Photo Data Base - Topics ranging from Art, to Air and Space, Science, Nature, Technology, History, and People-Places National Anthropological Archives - Society, government, field notes, maps and much more Colorado Digitization Program - Thousands of historic images of plants, animals, people and more from Western history.

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