Audiovisual Resources

Searching Techniques

1. Search through one of the directories or one of the larger sites, such as American Memory first. Using someone else's organization and selection is often useuful and timesaving.
2. Search for the object or the person involved, not for what that artifact represents. For instance search for slaves or slavery and not abolitionism.
3. When your results are large and you are using a search engine, limit by type of image (color, greyscale,etc.) and domain name, such as .edu.
   

Directories and Websites

For another, broader list of multi-media resources see: http://www.lib.muohio.edu/subjects/Media%2C+Images+and+Audio/others/

Images

• Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/index.php
• Digital Librarian: Images http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html
• Timepix http://www.timelifepictures.com/
• Ad* Access http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
• Africa Photo http://www.africa-photo.com/
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/
• Digital South Asia Library http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
• Life Magazine Covers http://www.life.com/Life/cover_search

Audio

• Great Speeches (History Channel) http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/
• History and Politics Out Loud http://www.hpol.org/

Video

• Movietone http://www.movietone.com/
• AdCouncil Campaigns http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=61
• American Memory http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ndlmps.html
• Britishpathe (mostly news) http://www.britishpathe.com/
• British Movietone News http://www.movietone.com/
• ITN Archive http://www.itnarchive.com/
• WPA Film Library http://www.wpafilmlibrary.com/
• Movie Archive http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Mixed

• Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
  http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/
• American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/
• George Eastman House http://www.eastmanhouse.org/
• Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/
• Newseum http://www.newseum.org/

Search Engines

Images

• Picsearch http://www.picsearch.com/
• Amazing Picture Machine http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
• Google http://www.google.com (click on images)

Audio

• Findsounds http://www.findsounds.com/

Mixed

• Singingfish http://www.singingfish.com/

Evaluation and Sites for Visual Literacy

• Digital Classroom (National Archives) http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/worksheets.html
  Worksheets to evaluate primary sources.
• Visual Understanding in Education http://www.vue.org
• 21st Century Literacies: Visual Literacy http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/visual.html

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Image from Camden County Historical Society (NJ) www.cchsnj.com/