UC Image Service provides digital image collections in support of teaching,
learning, and research for faculty and students of the University of California.
Included are digital image collections from University of California archives,
libraries, museums, and visual resources collections. Many collections are freely accessible to
the UC community and the general public from
David Rumsey's Visual Collections website, including the
MOAC collection.
UC Image Service has licensed Luna Insight® software for the delivery of shared
digital image collections. You need only download
the software to your personal computer once.
| Collection |
Images |
Description |
Access |
| AMICA |
100,000+ |
The AMICA Library(TM) contains over 100,000 works of art from the collections
of the member museums of the Art Museum Image Consortium. Cultures and time
periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient
Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
Types of works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs,
as well as textiles, costumes, jewelry, decorative art, and books and manuscripts.
|
license (UCD, UCI, UCM, UCR, UCSB) |
| David Ramsey Map Collection |
11,000 |
The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and
South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases,
globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps
including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online selection
is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth
and breadth of the collection. The digital images and associated descriptive
data are © Cartography Associates. |
free |
| Estate Virtual Collection (Project for Artists with Aids) |
3,000 |
The Estate Collection is a database of high quality images representing
the works of artists with HIV/AIDS. With the ability to find and see these
works of art in detail, the Estate Project will ensure continued access,
presentation, and study of the cultural legacy created by the artistic community
during the AIDS crisis. The images are drawn from the collections of Visual
AIDS, Visual AIDS/Boston, Visual Aid/San Francisco, and the Los Angeles
Gay and Lesbian Community Center. |
free |
| Farber Gravestone Collection |
13,527 |
The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource documenting gravestone
sculpture, mostly prior to 1800. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts,
and his wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for the largest portion
of the collection. These early stones are both a significant form of artistic
creation and precious records of biographical information, such as name,
death date of the deceased, stone location, and information concerning the
stone material, iconography, the inscription, and (when known) the carver. |
free |
| Hartill Collection |
16,660 |
The Hartill Collection is primarily of architecture, from Hartill Art Associates. Includes works from major periods, and monuments such as the Great Pyramids at Giza, Stonehenge, and the Viet Nam War Memorial. Covers the architectural history of the Western world from earliest antiquity through the present, and from the Middle East to the Americas. Includes thousands of details of architectural decoration, mosaics, sculpture and stained glass, as well as related decorative arts and public sculpture. Exceptionally strong in European medieval architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods; additionally, modern architecture and sculpture are both especially well represented. |
license (all campuses) |
| Hoover Institution Poster Collection |
53 |
The Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection includes political posters
from around the world. Many thousands of posters date from World War I and
World War II, though the posters cover the entire twentieth century. Posters
from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Russian empire
and the Soviet Union, and France are well represented, but also included
are posters from more than eighty countries. The online collection consists
of selected Russian posters. Additional images from other countries will
be added. |
free |
| Japanese Historical Maps Collection |
896 |
The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library contains
early maps of Japan and the World. Represented in this online collection
are a selection of maps and books from the collection. The maps were selected
by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library
at U.C. Berkeley, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography
Associates. Most noteworthy in the collection are a range of Japanese city
maps dating back 300 years. |
free |
| Library of UC Images / Saskia |
26,000 |
Founded in 1966, Saskia, Ltd.™ offers more than 26,000 high-quality,
digital art historical images with a special emphasis on core images required
for teaching the history of Western Art. By combining professional photography
and art historical acumen, Saskia has documented many of the world’s
most famous collections including the Louvre, Musée D’Orsay,
Uffizi Palace, and the Prado as well as many important archaeological sites
including Ephesus, Pergamum and Mycenae to support teaching endeavors at
universities, libraries and museums around the world. |
license (all campuses) |
| MOAC, Museums & the Online Archive of California |
77,000 |
The MOAC collection is comprised of selected works from the permanent
collections of eight California museums: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film
Archive; Japanese American National Museum; Oakland Museum of California;
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley; Bancroft Library, UC
Berkeley; Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA; Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, UCLA; California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside. |
free |
| SPIRO: Arch + Art + Places |
67,000+ |
SPIRO is a collection of images of architecture, allied arts, and places.
Coverage is world-wide, from the beginning to time to the present day. There
are approximately 40,000 images of buildings in all stages of existence,
by architects of all kinds, built using all methods, materials, and technologies.
There are 15,000 images of landscape architecture and the fine, graphic,
decorative, domestic, and technological arts. There are 10,000 images of
places, cities, neighborhoods, city history, maps, and urban plans. 2,000
ancillary images document unbuilt environments, climatology, earthquakes,
lighting, as well as animal, vegetable, and mineral forms. Approximately
6,000 images are added yearly. SPIRO (Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval
Online) is named in honor of architectural historian Spiro Kostof, 1936-1991,
and is under the direction of the Architecture Visual Resources Library,
University of California, Berkeley. May, 2004. |
free |
| Tebtunis Papyri Collection |
55 |
The Tebtunis Papyri Collection at The Bancroft Library. The Tebtunis papyri
were excavated in the winter of 1899/1900 in and around the site of ancient
Tebtunis, Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis, which was directed by the British
papyrologists Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, was financed for the
University of California by Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. With approximately
30,000 fragments, the collection is the largest of its kind in the Americas. |
free (UC only) |
| UCSF Demonsration Project |
99 |
This is a small prototype collection of medical and dental images from
the faculty at UCSF. |
free (UC only) |
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