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• Museum of the History of Science, Oxford -- images of instruments, portraits, and prints
• Oxford Image Database -- some random images, but may be of use
• Labrynth Databases -- Medieval Studies Text, Image, and Archival Databases
• Cartographic Images -- Over 1200 images of maps from antiquity through the Renaissance
• USC-SIPI Image Database -- A collection of digitized images maintained primarily to support research in image processing, image analysis, and machine vision (Mostly TIFF files)
• VASC Image Database -- Vision and Autonomous Systems Center's image database at Carnegie Mellon (includes links to other computer vision test image dBs)
• IBM Intellectual Property Archive - Shearchabls U.S. Patent archive (1973-present) [ fee for images ]

• Emilio SegrĖ Visual Archives -- A collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials at the American Institute of Physics, focusing on American physicists and astronomers of the 20th century [ fee for images ]
• Chemist's Art Gallery -- spectacular visualization and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization and Animation Laboratory at CSC (Finland).
• APS Famous Scientists -- many photos of great scientists; [ fee for images ]
• HST Data Archive - Hubble Space Telescope data archive (not that HST!)
• Astronomy Plus CCD Images of Galaxies -- Various astronomical resources
• APS Project POSS I Image Databas -- Images of stars and galaxies from Automated Plate Scanner (APS) digitized first-epoch National Geographic-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS I) plates.
• Earth and Moon Viewer -- Lot sof images of our planet and its satellite

• MED.I.C. DB --Medical Image Center Database - a list of other image databses on the WWW

• Crateuas -- Botanical Illustration as an Instrument of Science
• ICHNOLOGY: Plant and Animal Traces -- Includes a section on Trace Fossil Images
• Japanese Ants Color Image Database -- a database relating to Japanese ant classification from the Myrmecological Society of Japan and the Group for Wide Area Biological Databases.

• DesktopPublishing -- A vast collection of graphic sites on the web [ see in particular the clip art & imaging section ]
• Photocake - Turn your images into frosting [ really! ]