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Description of: ARTstor

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Description:

ARTStor is a repository of over 500,000 digital images of art, architecture, photography, decorative arts and design, and archaeology. ARTStor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. ARTStor is funded by the Mellon Foundation and is now linked with JSTOR.

ARTStor’s featured collections include:

The Image Gallery (200,000+ images including the former AMICO library)
The Art History Survey Collection (4,000+ images from 13 standard art history survey texts)
Illustrated Bartsch (57,000 images of 15th-19th century Old Master European prints)
The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection (4,500 images of canonic works of American art and architecture)
The Huntington Archive of Asian Art (12,000 images of Asian art)
The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (images and QuickTime Virtual Reality tours of Buddhist cave grottoes in Dunhuang, China)
The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection (8,000 images of design objects and drawings from MOMA)
Native American Art and Culture (10,000 images from the Smithsonian of historic photographs documenting Native American subjects)
Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection (36,000 images from the Schlesinger Library's photographic archive)

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