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Title: H.W. Wilson Art Museum Image Gallery Expands
Date: June 2009
Vendor: H.W. Wilson
Press Release:
Art Museum Image Gallery Expands
New Content, Interface Enhancements for Acclaimed Image Database
New York, New York, June 25, 2009
Art Museum Image Gallery--H.W. Wilson's acclaimed image database featuring hundreds of thousands of images from renowned museums worldwide--recently grew by more than 7,600 images from noted Library of Congress digital collections. The database also now boasts significant interface enhancements--including the option to convert main buttons and links into Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese--plus new "My WilsonWeb" folders and notes areas, where users can organize saved images and personal notes in individual accounts within the database.
The new images represent these Library of Congress collections:
African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition (1899). Photos gathered for use in the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, consisting of portraits and scenes of education, work, and daily life. Includes photos presented by W.E.B. Du Bois.
Fine Prints: Japanese (1688-1915). Primarily woodcuts depicting actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and English and European visitors.
Lomax Collection (1934-ca. 1950). Snapshots documenting sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax for the Archive of American Folk Song, including African-American and Latino musicians, singers, and dancers, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.
Posters: World War I Posters (1914-1920). American, Australian, Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Italian, and other posters supporting the war effort.
Posters: WPA Posters (1936-1943). Posters produced by various branches of the WPA to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia.
Van Vechten Collection -- Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
(1932-1964). Portraits of celebrities, especially artists, entertainers, and authors, including African-Americans active in these fields.
Hailed by Library Journal as "an essential acquisition," Art Museum Image Gallery offers invaluable support for curricula in art history, studio art, and design, as well as cultural studies, area studies, archaeology, classics, history, religion, literature and related subject areas. Teachers can use high-resolution images in classroom lectures and other academic presentations, curricula, and password-protected course websites. Students can use Art Museum Image Gallery works in reports and other assignments. Museums can provide patron access to Art Museum Image Gallery from computer kiosks, and use images for public lectures or scholarly presentations.
Coverage includes both fine and decorative art, and cultural iconography--painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds, and beyond--from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas (including Native American and MesoAmerican peoples).
Free 30-day trials are available. For more information, visit www.hwwilson.com/artgallery.
About H.W. Wilson
www.hwwilson.com
Since 1898, independent publisher H.W. Wilson has provided researchers with references produced with unmatched editorial integrity. More than 60 H.W. Wilson databases--indexes, abstracts, full text resources, plus the acclaimed Retrospective Collection--meet the research needs of customers around the globe. From the long-popular Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature to today's widely-praised Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus and Current Issues: Health, H.W. Wilson products are created for librarians, by librarians. Over 150 Wilson editorial staff members with MLS or MLIS degrees-multi-lingual trained librarians and subject specialists-build the Wilson references each day. For more information, visit www.hwwilson.com.
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