Asian Studies Research Guide: RELI 117 Photo Essay Assignment

Database of Asian-specific images that can be used for educational purposes.

Digital archive of historical photography for Southeast Asia

"The East Asian Collection includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Currently, the collection consists of images that document early 20th century China including the the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945), a visual history of Buddhist practices and temples in China, and other images of daily life in both rural and urban China."

Explore images of architecture in cities throughout Asia

Searchable collection of over 7500 photographs.

Collection of over seventy CIA National Intelligence Estimates on China which span the pivotal period from the Chinese civil war and the consolidation of the Communist regime through the upheavals of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. It chronicles the struggles within the top leadership, the buildup of the Chinese military, and the evolution of the Sino-Soviet split.

An open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides documenting the history of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52).

Enjoy more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.

A collection of over 42 million freely usable media files in the public domain and freely-licensed educational media content.

Online collection of slides.

"It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery."

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.

30 000 works of art from sculpture to architecture and drawings and explore over 150 collections from 40 countries.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The Library of Congress' digitized collection of prints and photographs

"Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries."

"Repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images."

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.