Slide, digital and photographic collections 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
Location: 7-304 | Hours | rvc-all@mit.edu
Santos, Adèle Naudé and Santos, Antonio de Souza, Stekhovan House, Cape Town, South Africa, 1973
Collection highlights:
- Digital images: DOME, MIT Library’s digital collections include high quality images available to download for teaching and research. (MIT only)
- ARTstor Digital Library: Large and representative academic visual resource collection of images for teaching and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences, available for download. (MIT only)
- Archivision Digital Research Library: Extensive collection of images documenting architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, archaeology, art and art history (MIT only, hosted through ARTstor)
- Landslides Aerial Photography: Growing collection of aerial photographs documenting urban environments and urbanization issues, climate change, waterfront developments, density, consumption and its effects on the environment. (MIT only)
- 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 image search and retrieval (local and worldwide collections)
- Assistance with image presentation tools like Powerpoint and ARTstor OIV
- Assistance with Rights and Reproductions
- MAC Imaging Station
- Photoshop CS4 and Silverfast
- 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
