ARTstor Additions

The Artstor Digital Library has added 2,000 images from the Library of Congress “Eyes of the Nation” collection. This collection provides a pictorial overview of American history and includes prints, posters, maps, manuscript pages, photographs, design, movie stills, and cartoons. To find these images, from the ARTstor homepage "www.artstor.org", click on the link "Search and Browse for Images". After a few seconds you will see the Artstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery”. Choose “Eyes of the Nation” to view all the images in this collection.


Also nearly 1600 additional images have been added to the Islamic Art and Architecture Collection. This latest release focuses on the Ottoman architecture in Turkey and brings the total number of images in this collection to over 10,000. To find these images, from the ARTstor homepage "www.artstor.org" click on the link "Search and Browse for Images". After a few seconds you will see the Artstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery”. Choose the “Islamic Art and Architecture Collection” to view all the images in this collection.

The ARTstor digital collection contains approximately 500,000 images from many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.

For information on how you can access and register for an ARTstor account visit our ARTstor information website at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Docs/artstor0507.pdf .