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Find High Quality Images for Your Educational Projects (for free!)

Need an image for that class presentation or project? Do all the images you find doing a Google Image search look low resolution and poor quality? Try these resources for all sorts of high quality...

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The Digital Commonwealth goes Live!

The Digital Commonwealth, a portal to the rich digital resources maintained by a consortium of over 100 Massachusetts libraries and cultural institutions, was introduced at a conference at The College...

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ARTstor adds to Islamic Art and Architecture Collection

ARTstor one of the databases that we subscribe to at OWHL is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. ARTstor has just...

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ARTstor Releases First Images to the Mark Rothko Collection

ARTstor has recently posted the first phase of images to the Mark Rothko Collection in the ARTstor Digital Library. This release includes 43 paintings scanned from eight-by-ten color transparencies...

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ARTstor images now available at 1024 download size

ARTstor has been working with it’s partners and has gained permission to allow a much larger download size of 95% of their images. This means that images that are downloaded from the ARTstor site are...

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ARTstor Channel on YouTube

Have you been thinking about using ARTstor but find all those written instructions overwhelming? Perhaps you are a visual learner and like to see how things are done before you take the plunge...

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Curious About Your Future College’s Architecture?

ARTstor and The Council of Independent Colleges have come together to offer the Historic Campus Architecture Project. This means that there are over 4,000 images of 2,100 places of historical...

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A picture is worth a thousand words

As a teacher,  I have experienced first hand the power of images to trigger the intellectual curiosity which is prerequisite to authentic learning.  Thanks to the proliferation of digitization...

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National Archives in Waltham

On February 10, Jeffrey Marzluft visited the National Archives –  Northeast Division in Waltham.  The National Archives are open to the public and contain a wealth of primary sources for historians,,...

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