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This list includes links to Internet resources arranged by category, and materials available to the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary community from Ernest Miller White Library.

If permissions information is listed, it follows the URL.  If you intend to use images, audio, or video from the Web, you must check on copyright at each individual URL.

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General
 American Religious History
Ancient and Medieval World
Archeology
Art and Architecture
Biblical Studies
Black History
Christian History
Christology
Historical Images
 Jewish History
Maps
Online Museums
 Philosophers
Photograph Collections
Portraits
Reformation 
Religion
Theologians
Women’s History

 

Audio

Video

General Multimedia on the Web

Multimedia Search Engines/Directories/Databases

 

Images

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  • Zondervan Image Archives: Bible and Church History Sites and Artifacts Call #: CD 008 1999, 5000 color photos (cage)

Permissions: You may copy an image to a file for personal or classroom use. 

  • On Common Ground: World Religions in America, Diana L. Eck and the Pluralism Project at Harvard University Call#: CD 011 Audio and photo slide show. Can't copy, but could use in class--reset computer to 256 colors.

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  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
    Gallery at a Glance: NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

    Permissions: All images are in the public domain     or owned by the Library. Images may be used for education and research, but users are not permitted to publish or profit from the images

  • Multimedia Library’s Image Library http://www.multimedialibrary.com/framesml/index.asp

    Permissions:  Royalty free image library for non-commercial use, including on the Web.

  • LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google http://images.google.com/hosted/life/

    Permissions:  For personal non-commercial use only.

  • American Memory Project of the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

    Permissions:  Whenever possible, the Library of Congress provides factual information about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. As a publicly supported institution, the Library generally does not own rights in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and generally does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. Permission and possible fees may be required from the copyright owner independently of the Library. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections. Transmission or reproduction of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Researchers must make their own assessments of rights in light of their intended use.

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American Religious History 

Library of Congress cyber-exhibit paints an epic panorama of the complex role of religion in bringing refugees to America and shaping churches, the revolutionary war, congress, state and federal governments, and American society through the first half of the 19th c.

  • Divining America:  Religion and the National Culture  http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/divam.htm

    Permission:  The LPTS community may contact Carolyn Cardwell (ccardwell@lpts.edu) for a list of copyright-free images.

  • Rutgers Virtual Religion Index:  American Studies  http://virtualreligion.net/vri/

  • Library of Virginia Digital Library  http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas84&local_base=CLAS84
    Permission:  Give credit.

  • The Material History of American Religion Project  http://www.materialreligion.org/

    Permission:  Fair use.
  • Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award99/miemhtml/svyhome.html

    This addition to the Library of Congress' American Memory collection contains the full text of 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries.

    Permission:      The books digitized for this online collection are from the holdings of Michigan State University and Central Michigan University. These institutions are unaware of any copyright in the texts that were digitized for this collection. The works were all published prior to 1890. The digital reproductions presented here may be copied freely by individuals for personal use, research, and teaching (including distribution to classes). Please include this statement of availability with copies and use the credit line suggested below. The texts may be linked to freely in Internet editions of all kinds, including for-profit works.

    Credit line: Courtesy of Michigan State University Libraries

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Ancient and Medieval World 

  • Perseus Project  www.perseus.tufts.edu
  • Ancient Greek World www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_world University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology offers images of artifacts.
  • Diotima:  Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World:  Art Collections  http://www.stoa.org/diotima
  • West Semitic Research Project  http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/index.html

    Permission:  Images are available for non-commercial, educational use.
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Image Collections  http://wally.rit.edu/collections/images.html 
  • Gallery:  Byzantine Images (Paul Halsall)  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/images.html
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Maps and Images http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html
  • Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: A joint project of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science http://cdli.ucla.edu/

    COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS FOR USE
    The text and images presented in the databases of the research project Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative are for the personal, non-profit use of students, scholars, and the public. All text and images are subject to copyright laws and, except where noted otherwise, are the property of the project. Exceptions, in particular regarding the digitized images of photographs and original tablets, are noted on the pages of their appearance. Commercial use or publication of text or images is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from the project and/or the institutions named in conjunction with particular images.

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Archeology

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Art and Architecture

1) Only use UP TO 10 scans.
2) Always give a name credit AND a link.
3) Load the scans onto your own server, DO NOT link directly to mine.
4) No authority to give permission to use these scans on a commercial site.
5) Don't post scans at newsgroups.

Permissions:  The materials at the site are copyrighted. You may freely download the images for your personal use.  No permission is granted to anybody to maintain a copy of the website or use the full-size images within a webpage.  Links to the site are welcome.

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Biblical Studies 

Permissions:  The materials at the site are copyrighted. You may freely download the images for your personal use.  No permission is granted to anybody to maintain a copy of the website or use the full-size images within a webpage.  Links to the site are welcome.

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Black History     

  • North by South  http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/  African-American migrations from the South to the North during the century following the Civil War.  Lots of photos, including a large section titled “Bound for the Promised Land: The Multiple Dimensions of the Church in Migrants’ Lives.”
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries: Documenting the American South-The Church in the Southern Black Community  http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/index.html

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Christian History 

  • Yale Ad Hoc Digital Library-A Yale Divinity School faculty-library initiative to provide electronic images and texts related to the history of Christianity  http://research.yale.edu/divdl/adhoc  

    Permissions:  Yale resources are available for educational uses.
  • The Christian Catacombs of Rome: Gallery of Pictures from the World of the Catacombs http://www.catacombe.roma.it/
  • The Ecole Initiative : Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History

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Christology 

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Historical Images 

Nine emblem books printed in Early Modern England from the Penn State University Libraries.  “An unparalleled source not only for the study of daily life of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries but also for extraordinary insights into what the intellectuals of the times viewed as a necessary adjunct to heraldry, social life, politics, philosophy, and moral behavior.”

“Over 30,000 photographs, drawn form the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West.  Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920.  They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans form more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River.”  Includes Presbyterian and Catholic churches from the 19th century.

Permissions:  The Denver Public Library encourages use of these materials under the fair use clause of the 1976 copyright act.  All images in this collection may be used for educational, scholarly purposes and private study.  A credit line must be included with each item used.

            Credit Line:

            Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library

If you wish to publish or reproduce the materials in any physical or digital form beyond that permitted by fair use or use them for any commercial purpose, including display or Web page use, you must obtain prior permission from the Denver Public Library.  Please contact the Denver Public Library Photo Sales Department by e-mail at photosales@denver.lib.co.us or by calling (303) 640-6289.

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Jewish History 

“This new online exhibit form the National Museum of American Jewish History is an outstanding photographic and audio document of Jewish life in South Philadelphia.”

Permission is granted to copy the text, and to print out copies for personal and educational use. No permission is granted for commercial use.

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Maps 

"Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps...If you need a high resolution image for printing, see the instructions for high res printing on the java client download page."

Permissions:  These maps are available without charge for all but commercial use.  Credit the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com.  

  • The American Revolution and Its Era:  Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789, Library of Congress  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html

    Permissions:  “While the Library of Congress is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection (see Title 17 U.S.C.) or any other restrictions in the American Revolution and Its Era materials, there may be content protected by copyright law.  Additionally, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by privacy or other rights.  The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes.  The written permission of the copyright owners and/or other rights holders (such as the holders of publicity and/or privacy rights) is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions.  Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.”
  • ABZU —A project and publication of the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago. A guide to information related to the study of the ancient Near East on the Web. http://www.etana.org/abzu
  • Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin 
    http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html 
  • The University of Georgia Libraries Online Map Collection  http://www.libs.uga.edu/maproom/online/index.html

    Permissions:  Fair use.
  • American Memory, Library of Congress:  Map Collections 1544-1999  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

    Permissions:  In general, maps are not covered by copyright.
  • Frontline:  From Jesus to Christ:  Maps, Archaeology, & Sources  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/roman.html

    Permissions:  Only link to in classroom; may not copy except for personal use.

  • Europe Historical Atlas http://www.euratlas.com/

    Permissions: "You can freely download and distribute these images or use them as desktop wallpapers provided that you will bring no transformation on them."

  • Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  Multimedia and History, Paul Halsall, ed  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modmusic.html#MAPS
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Maps and Images http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html
  • Free Historic Maps:  Roughly 85,000 images of historical maps of regions of the UK.  “The maps are dated between 1846 and 1899, and are of 1:10,560 scale.”  http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.htm
  • Germany GenWeb Project  http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/map/index.htm 
  • OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/ 

    Permissions: Copyright 1996 University of Oregon

  • Historic Jesus  http://www.historicjesus.com/maps/index.html
  • The Jewish History Resource Center, Dinur Center Hebrew University: Historical Maps and Atlases  http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/links/maps.htm

    Permissions:  Write to webmastr@www7.cc.huji.ac.il listing images you want to use.
  • The World of Maps/Die Welt der Karten http://www.maps.ethz.ch 
  • University of Illinois Library Historical Maps Online http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/maps/index.html  Maps that chart the past 400 years of historical development in Illinois
    Permissions: The University of Illinois Library and The University of Illinois Press remind their patrons that they may not reproduce, alter, or transmit any image without written permission. Users of the images and texts accessible through this Web site agree to the following conditions of use:
    These images and texts are for educational use only and may not be used for any non-educational or commercial purpose. Approved educational uses include faculty research, teaching and student projects.
    These images and texts may not be redistributed in any form for any purpose without the prior written permission of the contributor.
  • WWW-Virtual Library: History, Images of Early Maps on the Web http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html

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Online Museums 

Philosophers 

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Photograph Collections 

Permissions:  "Many of these spectacular photos 'may be used freely for non-commercial purposes' as long as the source is credited and CalAcademy.org is notified of the use."

  • Peace Gallery Homepage  http://www.peacegallery.org/
  • The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas84&local_base=CLAS84.  Search on church or congregation to find historical photos of churches and congregations from Tazewell County, VA.

    Permissions:  Fair use.
  • The Multimedia Library-Royalty Free Photographs   Over 3,000 photographs in 25 categories  http://www.multimedialibrary.com/FramesML/index.html

    Permissions:  Non-commercial use; ok on web sites.
  • AfricaFocus  http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/

    Permissions:  “These materials may be copied freely by individuals or libraries for personal use, research, teaching (including distribution to classes), or any “fair use” as defined by copyright laws.  Please include this statement and author or photographer attribution with any copies you make.  The materials may be linked to freely in non-commercial, non-subscription Internet editions created for an educational purpose.  Citation information is included on the ‘About the Project’ page.”
  • The Ogden Museum of Southern Art: The Louisiana State Museum Photograph Collection  http://www.lsu.edu/diglib/  "The LSU Digital Library partnered with the Louisiana State Museum to produce a digital collection of 1,500 photographs of Louisiana cities, culture, people, landscape, and waterways. These historical photographs date from mid 1800 to early 1900 and were taken by many of the well known photographers of the day..."
  • The 1905-1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan: A Photographic Study
    http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/EGYPT/BEES/BEES.html
  • OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource
     http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/ 

Permissions: Contact:  atlas@darkwing.uoregon.edu  (01-16-01)

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Portraits 

Reformation

Religion 

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Theologians 

Women’s History    

Permissions:  Permission is granted to copy the text, and to print out copies for personal and educational use. No permission is granted for commercial use.

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Audio

LPTS 

Les Tres Riches Heures du Moyen Age: A Medieval Journey-From 4th century Byzantine chant through the Renaissance.  Words are printed with their translations.  Appendix gives the texts of the Ordinary of the Mass.  Use from CD in class. Call #:  CD 001

Worship Leader Journal.  Song Discovery.  Clips of sacred music.  Use from CD in class. Call #:  CD 005

Celtic Hymns-instrumental.  Use from CD in class. Call #:  CD 003

Colonial hymns-instrumental.  Use from CD in class. Call #:  CD 002

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Ethics 

The Values Institute, Univ of San Diego, ReelEthics: Ethics Videos on the Web  http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/index.html

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General Multimedia on the Web 

  • MERLOT-Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching  http://www.merlot.org/Home.po  "MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments."

Permissions: This is a directory of sites.  Go to the material's actual location to check for licensing regulations or cost. 

  • Memory of the World Directory of Digitized Collections  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/  A joint project of UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA); central point for information on digitized collections worldwide.  The collection contains more than 10,000 images and may be searched by region, country, city, theme, subject, keyword, and photographer. 

Permissions:  Plans are in the works to allow users to obtain reproduction rights online, but current users must contact UNESCO for reproduction permission.

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Multimedia Search Engines/Directories/Databases

General

ATLA Cooperative Digital Resource Initiative The main Index of the literature of religion and theology includes entries for multi-media and non-serial electronic resources.

www.altavista.com  Tabs for Images, MP3/Audio and Video

www.yahoo.com  Computers & Internet/Multimedia

American Memory Collection Finder Manuscripts | Maps | Motion Pictures | Photos & Prints | Printed Texts | Sound Recordings

www.alltheweb.com 

http://ixquick.com Meta-engine

Images

Digital Librarian: a Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web: Images Over 800 links to image collections

The Amazing Picture Machine www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm 

Google Image Search  http://images.google.com

Picsearch  www.picsearch.com

Artcyclopedia  http://www.artcyclopedia.com/  Searches the Internet for fine art by movement, medium, subject, artist.

Web Places Clip Art Searcher  http://www.webplaces.com/search/

New Collections and Enhancements at the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)  http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/search.html

Finding Images on the Web  http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html

A tutorial on the legal use of copyrighted images, image

searching, downloading, and use.  Created by art and art history

bibliographer Ruth S. Thomas at the Mugar Memorial

Library of Boston University.

Audio

www.musicrobot.com

www.mp3.com

www.findsounds.com

www.singingfish.com

Lycos Music Downloads http://music.lycos.com/downloads/ 

Pandia Radio Search www.pandia.com/radio/ 

WebTimes www.webtimes.com 

 

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