Barbara Opar, column editor

Looking for images of regional architecture…or archives…online? This topic came up in several discussions at our recent Association of Architectural Librarians conferences and we would like to compile a list of digital archives. The beginning of such a list appears below, but this is, by no means, complete. We know that many regional repositories are not easy to find. AASL plans to gather this information and post it on our website: http://www.architecturelibrarians.org/. But we need your help. If you are aware of an architectural repository, especially one which includes image files, please contact us. You may email Barbara Opar (baopar@syr.edu) with the name and address of the collection. Your help is very much appreciated. Meanwhile, take a look at the list below.

National

American Memory (U.S.)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Built in America (U.S)

http://frontiers.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/

Making of America (U.S.)

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/

Regional image collections

http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives#multi

Las Vegas Architecture and Buildings

http://library.nevada.edu/arch/lasvegas/index.html

Digital Archive of Newark Architecture

http://archlib.njit.edu/collections/dana/index.php

NYPL Digital Gallery (New York City and other)

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

 

Northwest Digital Archive

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/index.shtml

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/

Canadian Architectural Archives

http://caa.ucalgary.ca/viewsof20thcentury/imagebank

Other:

City and Buildings Database (worldwide)

http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html

Great Buildings (worldwide)

http://www.greatbuildings.com/search.html