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Finding Images 

Guide to finding images in MIT visual collections and online through large repositories of images appropriate for academic audiences
Last update: Nov 06th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.mit.edu/findingimages  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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About the Collections

slide, digital and photographic collections of images document the following disciplines:

 

Fine and Applied Art and Media  Art, Architecture and Urban History  City Planning  Building Technology  Islamic Architecture, Art and Urbanism  Photography  Environmental Design  Landscape Design  Anthropology  Archaeology  Boston Urban History

 


Santos, Adèle Naudé and Santos, Antonio de Souza, Stekhovan House, Cape Town, South Africa, 1973

(c)Santos Prescott and Associates

 

Rotch Visual Collections, 7-304

617-253-7087

RVC Hours

rvc-all@mit.edu

 

 
 

Collection Highlights

  • 380,000 slides  
    Slide collection extensively documents the core disciplines; light tables throughout the RVC for viewing the slide collection
  • Perceptual Form of the City project  
    Digitized images and text related to seminal research project conducted by MIT Professors Kevin Lynch and Gyorgy Kepes, 1954-1959
  • SAHARA  
    Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive
  • Aga Khan Visual Archive  
    100,000 slides and digital images of architecture, urbanism, and the built environment in the Islamic world
  • Kidder Smith Collection of American Architecture  
    Collection of 3,400 color images surveying American Architecture from pre-colonial to the 1970s
 

Services

  • Instruction on the search and retrieval of images in all formats from the localy housed collections and digital libraries of images available online
  • Assistance with image presentation tools like Powerpoint and ARTstor OIV
  • Guidance on building image groups and presentations in Stellar course management system
  • MAC Imaging Station
    • MAC G5, Intel processor
    • Photoshop CS4 and Silverfast
    • 24" monitor
    • Microtek Artixscan M1 Scanner
    • 4 transparency adapters: 35mm slides, 35 mm negatives, 6cm transparencies up to 22cm in width, and 4×5 medium format film

Faculty and students may request the acquisition of images, in keeping with the collection policies.  All materials remain the property of the Rotch Visual Collections.  Please contact RVC for information and procedures.

 

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