Detail
Early Chinese Export Watercolors No.19 (detail depicting a cricket). Nineteenth century, Chinese Export Watercolors, #4500. Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University Library.
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Artstor images now in JSTOR
JSTOR is a growing digital library that includes multiple types and formats of content. Artstor images have now moved into JSTOR, to create a robust platform for discovering and working with both text and images. Images from Artstor collections can now be found in JSTOR, and JSTOR platform features and functionality have evolved to support work with multiple formats of research materials.
You can only download if you register for an account, which you'll need to do on campus. After you have an account, you can login from anywhere. More information and help in using JSTOR images.
Artstor includes collections such as:
- The American Museum of Natural History
- The Natural History Museum (London)
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
as well as images of animals in hundreds of thousands of works of art and photography
Johnson Museum Online
Databases & Collections
The library subscribes to or has built a number of image databases that are excellent sources of images you can download and add to your papers and other projects. You need to keep in mind that some of them have licensing restricts that prohibit the re-publication (including open web publishing, such as on a blog or on social networking sites) of images you download. There are also quite a few digital collections that are free and open on the web. Use the library Visual Resources page for links and information about how best to use ARTstor and other image databases.
Other digital collections Get help with digital images
Finding Images Library Research Guide
Image Collections of Note
- Cornell Collection of Blaschka Invertebrate ModelsGlass invertebrates created by renowned 19th century glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
- Hill Ornithology CollectionTraces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography during that period.
- The Hive & the HoneybeeHighlights of the Everett F. Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library. Primarily a print collection
- Smithsonian National ZooMeet the Animals!
- National Geographic's Photo ArkThe National Geographic Photo Ark uses the power of photography to inspire people to help protect at-risk species before it’s too late. Explorer, photographer, and founder of the Photo Ark Joel Sartore has taken portraits of 16,000 species — and counting — in his quest to document 20,000 species of our world’s astonishing biodiversity! He’s documenting species living in the world’s zoos, aquariums, and wildlife sanctuaries. See: https://www.joelsartore.com/galleries/ for images.
- Macaulay LibraryCornell's own citizen-built library of images, sounds & videos. Search by species--not just birds!