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City and Regional Planning

• AP Multimedia Archive (requires OSU authentication)
  The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is a searchable electronic library containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1840s to the present. The Archive includes images of events, natural disasters, sports, cities, etc.
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  The Bureau of Transportation Statistics includes the Geographic Information Services (GIS), National Transportation Library which has over 9,000 full text documents, and the Transportation statistical information.
• Census Bureau
  The Census Bureau web site includes a searchable database of American statistics including population, housing, and maps.
• Federal Highway Administration
  The Federal Highway Administration website includes legislation and regulation documents, the origin and construction of the interstate system and the history of highways in the United States.
• National Parks Service
  The National Parks Service includes a searchable database for National Registry of Historic Sites, Historic Landmarks, as well as information about the park system in the United States.
• United States Geological Survey
  From the web site: "Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment."

Landscape Architecture

• American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850–1920
  This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850–1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models.
• CLIP: Contemporary Landscape Inquiry Project
  CLIP is a searchable database of contemporary landscape architecture "including but not limited to: landscape built projects, theoretical projects, competitions, and historical investigations of landscape issues and works which affects theory and practice."
• Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database
  This is a growing reference that includes plant images; pictures of animals affected by poisonous plants; and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and ways to prevent poisoning animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc.).
• Department of Agriculture PLANTS Database
  The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools.
• International Society of Arboriculture
  This web site provides the general public with quality arboriculture, tree care and related information. The web site also supplies some fun facts about trees.
• Japanese Garden Database
  This web site is a searchable database of Japanese gardens from around the world.
• Landscape Architecture Foundation Projects
  This web site includes a range of landscape projects from memorials to golf courses as well as information about the practice and education of a landscape architect.
• Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest
  Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest is an interactive guide that is specific to the upper Midwest United States (hardiness zones 3, 4 and 5), providing complete and accurate information on more than 600 species and varieties common to this region.
• Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
  This web site from Purdue provides botanical and common names of medicinal and aromatic plants. The site offers origin information, life cycles, characteristics, and common uses of these plants.
• Noble Foundation
  The Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery is designed to assist botanists, ecologists, and natural resource managers with the identification of plants. It should also prove useful to educators in the classroom as well as students who are required to learn plants as a part of their studies.
• Ohio Division of Forestry
  The Ohio Division of Forestry offers a comprehensive list of Ohio's trees arranged in alphabetical order by common name.
• OSU Plant Facts
  OSU Plant Facts is a comprehensive on-line resource for information about plants and horticulture. A simple search will return data such as publications, photos, videos, FAQs, and a glossary related to a search term.
• Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens
  From the web site: "The Archives of American Gardens, part of the Smithsonian's Horticulture Services Division, includes a collection of approximately 60,000 photographic images and records that document historic and contemporary gardens throughout the United States. The images, which depict views from colonial times to the present, include a considerable range of garden features such as furniture and ornamentation, as well as all manner of design styles."
• Vilar: Virtual Landscape Gallery
  The Virtual Landscape Gallery is a searchable database of landscapes from around the world.

Architecture

• A & A, Courtauld Institute of Art
  Art & Architecture images from the Courtauld Institute's collections. This includes over 26,000 images of architecture and building.
• AIA Index
  AIA Index is a searchable database of projects, architects, and journal articles from selected periodicals since 1982.
• ArchINFORM International Database
  From the web site: "This architectural database, originally emerging from records of interesting building projects from architecture students, has meanwhile become the largest online-database for international architecture. This database includes over 11111 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database."
• ArchNet Digital Library
  ArchNet Digital Library contains images of architecture and landscape architecture.
• Built in America: Historical American Buildings Survey/ Historic American Engineering Record
  From the web site: "The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright."
• Glass Steel and Stone
  Image database of architecture organized by title, building type, location, and date of completion.
• Great Buildings Collection
  The Great Buildings Collection is a general architecture reference site.
• Professor Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of American Architecture and Archive of European Architecture —Boston College
  The Archive of American Architecture (approx. 1,500 images) and Archive of European Architecture were created by Professor Jeffery Howe at Boston College to support his architecture survey classes.
• Professor Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project —Bluffton College
  The Digital Imaging Project is an index of art historical images of sculpture and architecture spanning from pre-history to the post-modern era.
• Skyscraperpage
  Skyscraperpage is a searchable database of high-rise buildings from around the world. It includes over 35,000 photographs and drawings.
• SPIRO University of California, Berkeley Architecture VRL
  SPIRO is the University of California, Berkeley's Architecture Visual Resources Library digital library catalog. Thumbnails only.
• University of Minnesota Digital Collections
  The University of Minnesota's Digital Collections accessible through one interface. Includes over 5,000 architecture images. Some images are available to the public.

Art, History, & Culture

• American Memory
  From the web site: "American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." The collections include documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings.
• Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
  Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl. AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature.
• History of Art Visual Resources Library, The Ohio State University (requires OSU username and password)
  The Department of History of Art’s Visual Resources Library (the VRL) houses a traditional slide collection of over 450,000 images representing world art, archeology, and architecture ranging from the prehistoric to the contemporary. The online catalog has a portion of these holdings available in digital form.
• John H. Herrick Archives: Documenting Structures at The Ohio State University
  The John H. Herrick Archives web site is under development, yet contains sketches and exhaustive information about many of the structures on OSU's Columbus campus. It is hosted by OSU's School of Architecture.
• OSU Historical Campus Map
  A clickable campus map of The Ohio State University showing the buildings, streets, and layout of the campus every ten years from 1871 to 2001.
• Praise Poetry, The Ohio State University (requires OSU username and password)
  A team of OSU faculty and staff led by Francis Abiola Irele, Professor of African American and African Studies, and Lupenga Mphande, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, traveled to South Africa to film these important historical and cultural Praise Poetry performances.
• Perseus Digital Library —Tufts University
  Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library offers a Classics collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome, including 56,652 images.
• University of Michigan Image Source
  Image Source is a collection of University of Michigan databases, including Architecture and Art/Art History image collections. Some collections are available to the public. Thumbnail images are viewable in restricted collections.
• The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, The Ohio State University
  The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art contains nearly 300,000 original color slides and black and white and color photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar (Burma). Works range from approximately 2500 B.C.E. to the present, and documentation includes contemporary religious activities in various parts of Asia.

Stock Photography

• Foto Search
  The Foto Search web site contains over 1 million stock photography images including: landscapes, plants, forestry, nature, architecture, etc. Images are available for purchase only but may be viewed free of charge.

Non-Web Resources

• OIT Media Library
  The Media Library contains more than 6,000 titles on videocassette, film, and DVD for faculty use.