Online Digital Libraries



Image Scrimmage:

Promote Visual Literacy within the Curriculum by Effectively Promoting and Utilizing Collections of Online Digital Image Libraries

Image Scrimmage is an ongoing project which is a collection of indexed websites that contain digital images that can be used to enhance instruction. Sites are categorized by the four core curriculum areas of math, science, language arts and social studies. There is also a large number of general image sites which could contain any number of images that could directly relate to the four core areas of study.

Currently there is an amazing number of online digital image libraries and their number is only increasing as the demand for such resources continues to increase. Interaction in our world has become increasingly dependent on images in order to communicate quickly and efficiently in a myriad of topics and events. Technology’s rapid advances has made the use of past and present images viable in almost every area of study and interest. Educators should not miss out on the ease of use and widespread availability of images via the online environment. Many of these libraries are free and others are accessible through individual fees or subscription services. The Image Scrimmage Project websites

have been indexed by specific subject matter and topics which makes the image search process more efficient than typical Internet searches.

In addition to the image libraries as a resource for educators, the Image Scrimmage Project provides ideas on how to increase the overall visual literacy of our students. Tips on how to make students not just consumers but producers when it comes to use and manipulation of visual images will be provided. Attendees will understand how displaying and producing digital images using LCD projectors, portable media players, scanners, and digital cameras promotes and enhances higher level thinking skills.

There has been a great deal of scientific research conducted centering on the importance of visual literacy. According to The Visual Literacy White Paper commissioned in 2003 by Adobe Systems, “Visual literacy can be defined as the ability to construct meaning from visual images” as well as obtaining the skills that allow individuals to understand the composition and construction of images.

Annette Lamb describes, Visual Literacy in Digital Glyphs, as, “the ability to understand and use images”. Erin Riesland’s Visual Literacy in the Classroom explains the importance of how children today must learn how to communicate effectively in both the virtual and real world using images in multimedia applications. The NCREL enGauge study emphasizes the importance for students to be able to “decipher, interpret, detect patterns and communicate using imagery”. The Image Scrimmage Project helps both instructors and students in obtaining quality images from reliable sources for use in instruction.

The Image Scrimmage Project provides examples of the types and variety of digital images available from various online collections as well as sample instructional activities that will inspire attendees to replicate or expand the learning experiences that occur with the inclusion of images in the curriculum.

Topic Listing of Sites

Africa

: Photos of Wildlife, Birds, Flora, People and Culture



a commercial site:



University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center Multimedia Collection



African-American Experience

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record



Alaska

The University of Alaska, Fairbanks Historic Photos and Videos



American History

American Memory Library of Congress Photo Collections



Child Labor in America 1908-12



Colonial Williamsburg Multimedia Images



Digital History



DKI Images:

Pocahontas and John Smith



Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum: Copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt , The Great Depression and the New Deal , and World War II



Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Reading Room



The Map List: Collection of Maps from San Diego University



Images of American Political History



The New Deal Network: Online Collection of Images



New Netherland Museum Home Page. The museum operates the Half Moon, a reproduction of the ship that Henry Hudson sailed from Holland to the New World in 1609



Old Sturbridge Village Graphics Database Colonial images



Paintings of John White



US Image Library



Vintage Postcards



Virginia Center for Digital History



The West: Online Image Gallery from PBS Series on American West



Western History Digital Image Catalog



Art

Art Renewal Center



Art History resources on the Web



Early American Paintings



Metropolitan Museum of Art



Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Online Gallery



Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery



Biology

The American Society for Cell Biology Online Image Library



Center for Disease Control Collection



ImageBank: Centre for Bioscience Image Bank



Microcopy Science Education Image Library



Celtic

Ancient Celtic Clipart



China

Chinese Clipart



Chinese New Year Clipart



Paul Halsall Brooklyn College Chinese Cultural Studies Images



Civil War

Ken Burns’ Civil War Film



Earth Science

Earth Science World Image Bank: A service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI). This Image Bank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.



Earth Today: A Digital View of our Dynamic Planet



Environmental Protection Agency: Water Cycle and Climate Change Animation



The Great Globe Gallery



The Hubble Heritage Project



NASA Collection:



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Collection:



Our Earth As Art: USGS shows the earth seen through the eyes of the Landsat-7 satellite



The Virginia Serve Weather Page: This site contains photo graphs and video clips of different types of weather events.



WaterCycle: This site explains the water cycle using graphics and audio.



Online Image Library



Egypt

Egyptian Clipart



Egyptian Clipart



Fashion

Fashion Plates from 1806-1914



Visual Dictionary of Fashion



General Topics

a commercial site:



American Memory: Collection of images from the Library of Congress

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ArtServe: Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia



British Library Online Collection



British Museum Images a commercial site



Corbis a commercial site:



Discovery Education Clipart Gallery



indexes millions of online images:



EduPic Graphical Resource: Free Photos and Graphics for Education



Online Photo Sharing Site



Flickr Storm: Creative Commons from the general Flickr database. Use Flickr storm to create a library of images in a tray that can then be downloaded and a link.



Florida Digital Warehouse



Online Photo Sharing Site



: Collection of free photos



: Collection of free photos



FreePhotosBank: Free Stock Photos and Images



FreePixels: Free Stock Photos and Images



Galen Frysinger Photo Collection



George Eastman House Photography Collection



Historic Computer Images



Historic Scotland Collection a commercial site:

.uk

Illustrated London News Online Collection a commercial site



Image After Online Photo Collection



Life Magazine Cover Collection



Metropolitan Museum of Art



Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Online Gallery



MorgueFile: Free raw photo materials



National Geographic Magazine Collection:



National Library of Australia Online Image Collection



National Science Digital Library: Many Images, Interactives also Lessons



New York Public Library Collection



New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Library Online Collection



Open Photo: Online Photo Sharing Site



PBase: Online Photo Sharing Site



PD Photo: Free Public Domain Photo Database



Pics4Learning copyright-friendly images for education



Philip Martin Clipart



Public Domain Pictures



Safari Montage: Subscription Service



Smithsonian Institution Online Photo Collection



Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's Image Gallery



Time and Life Magazine Collection:



TrekLens: Learning about photography through our world



United Streaming: Subscription Service



University of Wisconsin Digital Collections



: A Collection of U.S. Government Photos and Graphics



US Fish and Wildlife Service



Vision Learning: Interactive Animations and Science Lessons



The Visual Dictionary: A collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, etc.



The Visual Dictionary by Bernard Dery



Visual Dictionary Online by Merriam-Webster



Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary: Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.



Windows on Our World: Online geographical image resource



World Flag Database



United Streaming: Subscription Service



Yotophoto: Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other 'copyleft' images.



Geography

Graphic Maps



TrekEarth: Learning about the world through photography



Greece

Ancient Greece Clipart



Healing and Relaxation

Healing and Relaxation Photo Database



History

History Picks: Public Domain Historical Images



"People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe



Japan

Japanese Print Images



Light

Causes of Color in Sky



Military

American Posters of World War I



American Revolution: The National Archives



Military Images: HQDA Action Officer’s Online Reference



Naval Historical Center: Naval and maritime history pictures



Northwestern University Library World War II Poster Collection



Photos of the Great War: World War I



Virginia Civil War Archive: Images from Harper's Weekly during 1861-1865



Native Americans

American Indians First People Image Gallery



Native Americans North and South America Clipart



NativeTech: Native American Technology & Art Eastern Woodland Indians



Oceans

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography



Deep Sea Images Natural History Library



People

A&E network and based on the popular show Biography:

A collection of photos and video clips



Political History

American Political History



Plants and Animals

American Society of Mammalogists Mammal Online Image Library



Bat Conservation International Photo Library



Bug Guide



site devoted to wild animals and plants in the United States



Jungle Mouse: A collection of over 14,000 original animal pictures



Mariquita Farm: A collection of vegetable photos



National Biological Information Infrastructure: Images of nature and the environment.



Nature Picture Library: Natural History, Wildlife and Plant Photos

A commercial site



Science And Plants for Schools (SAPS) Plant Science Image Database (PSID) contains images of plants - whole plants, parts of plants, of the insides of plants and of plants in their environment.



Smithsonian’s National Zoo Photo Collection



The Warren and Genevieve Garst Collection: (Click on link below - then click on collections – digital collections – then click Garst Wildlife Photographic Collection)



Religion

Japanese Buddhist Statuary: A-Z Photo Dictionary



Rome

Ancient Rome Clipart



Science

Cloud Appreciation Society: Gallery of over 4000 photos of clouds organized by type.



Emilio Segrè Visual Archives: The Human Face of Science

Photographs of Scientists



Encyclopedia of Life: Site is starting to document all species of life on Earth



Free Nature Pictures: Nature, landscape, and wildlife photos.



Science-: A collection of science, nature and medical images



Science Daily: An online magazine and Web portal devoted to science, technology, and medicine.



Science Photo Library



Snow Crystal Photo Gallery



TrekNature: Learning about nature through photography



U.S. National Library of Medicine



Transportation

Union Pacific Railroad Photo Library



Vikings

Ancient Viking Clipart



Weather

AccuWeather Photo Gallery



The Virginia Serve Weather Page: This site contains photo graphs and video clips of different types of weather events.



Women

History of  Women



Alphabetical Listing of Sites

Science Sites:

AccuWeather Photo Gallery



The American Society for Cell Biology Online Image Library



American Society of Limnology and Oceanography



American Society of Mammalogists Mammal Online Image Library



Bat Conservation International Photo Library



Bug Guide



Causes of Color in Sky



Center for Disease Control Collection



Cloud Appreciation Society: Gallery of over 4000 photos of clouds organized by type.



Earth Science World Image Bank: A service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI). This Image Bank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.



Earth Today: A Digital View of our Dynamic Planet



Emilio Segrè Visual Archives: The Human Face of Science

Photographs of Scientists



site devoted to wild animals and plants in the United States



Encyclopedia of Life: Site is starting to document all species of life on Earth



Environmental Protection Agency: Water Cycle and Climate Change Animation



Free Nature Pictures: Nature, landscape, and wildlife photos.



Deep Sea Images Natural History Library



The Great Globe Gallery



The Hubble Heritage Project



ImageBank: Centre for Bioscience Image Bank



Jungle Mouse: A collection of over 14,000 original animal pictures



Mariquita Farm: A collection of vegetable photos



Microcopy Science Education Image Library



NASA Collection:



National Biological Information Infrastructure: Images of nature and the environment.



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Collection:



National Science Digital Library: Many Images, Interactives also Lessons



Nature Picture Library: Natural History, Wildlife and Plant Photos

A commercial site



Our Earth As Art: USGS shows the earth seen through the eyes of the Landsat-7 satellite



Science-: A collection of science, nature and medical images



Science And Plants for Schools (SAPS) Plant Science Image Database (PSID) contains images of plants - whole plants, parts of plants, of the insides of plants and of plants in their environment.



Science Daily: An online magazine and Web portal devoted to science, technology, and medicine.



Science Photo Library



Smithsonian’s National Zoo Photo Collection



Snow Crystal Photo Gallery



TrekNature: Learning about nature through photography



U.S. National Library of Medicine



The Virginia Serve Weather Page: This site contains photo graphs and video clips of different types of weather events.



Vision Learning: Interactive Animations and Science Lessons



The Warren and Genevieve Garst Collection

(then click on collections – digital collections – then click Garst Wildlife Photographic Collection)

WaterCycle: This site explains the water cycle using graphics and audio.



Online Image Library



Alphabetical Listing of Sites

Social Studies:

a commercial site:



A&E network and based on the popular show Biography:

A collection of photos and video clips



American Indians First People Image Gallery



American Memory Library of Congress Photo Collections



American Revolution: The National Archives



American Political History



American Posters of World War I



American Revolution: The National Archives



Ancient Celtic Clipart



Ancient Greece Clipart



Ancient Rome Clipart



Ancient Viking Clipart



Art Renewal Center



The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record



Art History resources on the Web



Child Labor in America 1908-12



Chinese Clipart



Chinese New Year Clipart



Colonial Williamsburg Multimedia Images



Digital History



DKI Images:

Pocahontas and John Smith



Early American Paintings



Egyptian Clipart





Fashion Plates from 1806-1914



Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum: Copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt , The Great Depression and the New Deal , and World War II



Graphic Maps



History of  Women



History Picks: Public Domain Historical Images



Images of American Political History



Japanese Buddhist Statuary: A-Z Photo Dictionary



Japanese Print Images



Ken Burns’ Civil War Film



Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Reading Room



The Map List: Collection of Maps from San Diego University



Military Images: HQDA Action Officer’s Online Reference



Native Americans North and South America Clipart



NativeTech: Native American Technology & Art Eastern Woodland Indians



Naval Historical Center: Naval and maritime history pictures



The New Deal Network: Online Collection of Images



New Netherland Museum Home Page. The museum operates the Half Moon, a reproduction of the ship that Henry Hudson sailed from Holland to the New World in 1609



Northwestern University Library World War II Poster Collection



Old Sturbridge Village Graphics Database Colonial images



Paintings of John White



Paul Halsall Brooklyn College Chinese Cultural Studies Images



"People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe



Photos of the Great War: World War I



Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery



TrekEarth: Learning about the world through photography



Union Pacific Railroad Photo Library



University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center Multimedia Collection



US Image Library



Vintage Postcards



Virginia Center for Digital History



Virginia Civil War Archive: Images from Harper's Weekly during 1861-1865



Visual Dictionary of Fashion



The West: Online Image Gallery from PBS Series on American West



Western History Digital Image Catalog



Windows on Our World: Online geographical image resource



World Flag Database



Alphabetical Listing of Sites

General Image Libraries:

: Photos of Wildlife, Birds, Flora, People and Culture



a commercial site:



ArtServe: Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia



British Library Online Collection



British Museum Images a commercial site



Corbis a commercial site:



Discovery Education Clipart Gallery



indexes millions of online images:



EduPic Graphical Resource: Free Photos and Graphics for Education



Online Photo Sharing Site



Flickr Storm: Creative Commons from the general Flickr database. Use Flickr storm to create a library of images in a tray that can then be downloaded and a link.



Florida Digital Warehouse



Online Photo Sharing Site



: Collection of free photos



: Collection of free photos



FreePhotosBank: Free Stock Photos and Images



Free Pixels: Free Stock Photos and Images



Galen Frysinger Photo Collection



George Eastman House Photography Collection



Healing and Relaxation Photo Database



Historic Computer Images



Historic Scotland Collection a commercial site:

.uk

Illustrated London News Online Collection a commercial site



Image After Online Photo Collection



Life Magazine Cover Collection



National Geographic Magazine Collection:



National Library of Australia Online Image Collection



New York Public Library Collection



New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Library Online Collection



Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Online Gallery



MorgueFile: Free raw photo materials



Open Photo: Online Photo Sharing Site



PBase: Online Photo Sharing Site



PD Photo: Free Public Domain Photo Database



Pics4Learning copyright-friendly images for education



Philip Martin Clipart



Public Domain Pictures



Safari Montage: Subscription Service



Smithsonian Institution Online Photo Collection



Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's Image Gallery



Time and Life Magazine Collection:



TrekLens: Learning about photography through our world



United Streaming: Subscription Service



University of Wisconsin Digital Collections



: A Collection of U.S. Government Photos and Graphics



US Fish and Wildlife Service



The Visual Dictionary: A collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, etc.



The Visual Dictionary by Bernard Dery



Visual Dictionary Online by Merriam-Webster



Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary: Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.



Yotophoto: Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other 'copyleft' images.



Alphabetical Listing of Sites

Interactive Sites

Colonial Life Maryland



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Patricia A. King, M.Ed.

T+L Seattle 2008

Image Scrimmage

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