CNST 5084: Research Methods in Building Construction: Images & Maps
This guide is intended for use in conjunction with the course: Research Methods in Building Construction. Visit the Art & Architecture Library website for access to specialized resources, hours, and contact information.
Free Sources
Select list of places to search for copyright free images.
- The Getty: http://www.getty.edu/
about/opencontent.html - Creative Commons: https://search.
creativecommons.org/ (you must select each source individually - it does not search them simultaneously and it is not perfect, so you have to check to see if the images to see what the copyright restrictions are) - Wikimedia Commons https://commons.
wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - NY Public Library: http://www.nypl.org/research/
collections/digital- collections/public-domain? gclid= CJnHzMHw6MwCFQEmhgodpcAJgQ - Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
- Library of Congress Architecture and Engineering Drawings: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
collection/ade/ - Pixabay https://pixabay.com/
Other sources
- Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/research/
archival-collections - SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians) http://www.sah.org/
publications-and-research/ sahara - University of Michigan Library Guide List of Free Sources is fantastic! http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.
php?g=282888&p=1885038
Maps
Related Research Guides at Virginia Tech
Free map resources
- University of Texas: Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/
maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html - The National Map http://nationalmap.gov/
- USGS Historical Maps http://historicalmaps.arcgis.
com/usgs/ - CDC Healthy Places Images https://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/images.htm
- This includes an extensive list of free image resources made available mostly by federal agencies and a couple of non-federal agencies.
Maps Online
These web sites are librarian recommended legitimate sites for finding high quality, accurate maps of cities. You will find historical and modern maps.
- University of Texas: Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/
maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html - British Library Maps http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/index.html
- Broer Map Library http://broermapsonline.org/site/
- David Rumsey http://www.davidrumsey.com/
- Ezilon Maps http://www.ezilon.com/maps/
- Harvard map collection http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/
- Mappery http://www.mappery.com/maps.php
- MIT DOME (Digital Collections) http://dome.mit.edu/discover
- do a search for your city and map, for example: Cairo map
- New York Public Library map collection https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/charting-america-maps-from-the-lawrence-h-slaughter-collection-and-others#/?tab=about
- Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library http://www.leventhalmap.org/
- Old Maps Online http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
- World Digital Library https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?item_type=map&qla=en
- CIA Maps https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/cia-maps-publications/
Library Databases with Images
- ArtstorArtstor provides high quality images of visual media like paintings, photographs, architecture, sculpture, decorative arts, and other forms of visual culture. It provides tools to create, manage, and present collections of images. Prehistoric times-present.
Artstor has a collection of Images for Academic Publishing (IAP). The Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) program makes available publication-quality images for use in scholarly publications free of charge. The IAP program was initiated by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007
Images for Environmental Design Online
Map Database
- FIMo Fire Insurance Maps OnlineLarge-scale maps of towns and cities in Virginia and Washington, D.C., useful to urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, and environmentalists. Data contained includes the outline of each building; size, shape, and construction materials; functions of structures; locations of windows and doors; street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, and house and block numbers.