Photo Libraries

GENERAL RESOURCES
• The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agenices

• Stock Index Online is a great place to start if you're looking for images for a particular project. Through it, you can out out calls for images or hire a photo researcher -- and locate libraries specifi to your needs covering a wide range of subjects. Invaluable.

Libraries
• BBC Research Central
Not just images (four million of 'em) but audio and video too. As yet there's no online search facillity. I often used the BBC Photo Library while I was editor of Doctor Who Magazine and once you got to know the team they were immensely helpful to us in tracking down the unusual photographs no-one had seen before.

• Corbis
65 Million Images, 2.1 Million Online: at the heart of Corbis' products and services is the Corbis Collection, the largest accumulation of digital images in the world.
The collection includes the world's most significant photography and art from more than 3,000 of the best professional photographers, museums, cultural institutions, public and private collections in the world, including Ansel Adams, Annie Griffith Belt, David Muench, Galen Rowell, David and Peter Turnley, Mark Seliger, The National Gallery - London, the Bettmann Archive, The State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Lynn Goldsmith, and Nick Kelsh.

• Getty Images
Includes the National Geographic, Hulton and Photographer's Choice collections.

NEWS IMAGES
• Associated Press Photo Library

HISTORIC IMAGES
• The Burns Archive
The 700,000 plus vintage photographs in the Burns Collection is a unique source of historic visual documentation. The strength of the collection is in vernacular photographs. The photographs taken by, for and of the common man. The collection is especially strong and noted for iconic historic images- medical photography and images of the dark side of life - Death, Disease, Disaster, Mayhem, Crime, Racism. Revolution, Riots, War. The site has an extensive collection of war photography from the Crimean to the Second World War.

FREE IMAGES
• Associated Press Topic Library
Registration required. The Topic Gallery is a free site for AP Photo Archive customers and other media organizations.
Images are supplied by public relations providers such as Business Wire, Feature Photo Service and PR Newswire, and others come to us directly from corporations.

• FreeFoto

LONDON
Sources of historic images of London - some of these sites are just reference points, and the libraries are not yet online.

• City of London

• PhotoLondon: Museum of London