Trove.net offers images from these wonderful and unique collections with descriptive metadata. Trove.net makes these images available for licensing through Index Stock’s Photos To Go, www.photostogo.com and Index Stock Imagery www.indexstock.com Web sites, because of Index’s excellent e-commerce and advanced search capability. Through Index’s commercial marketing infrastructure, these treasured images are easy to access and download.

Index has over 120,000 of the Trove images now on its sites, of which almost 23,000 are available at high resolution. You can see these images on the Index Stock Imagery site at: http://www.indexstock.com/store/search.asp?SearchStr=///direct%204072PHOTOGCODE.

The smaller file sizes are available on Photos To Go at:
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RLG was founded in 1974 by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania and The New York Public Library. RLG’s mission is to support researchers and learners worldwide by expanding access to research materials held in libraries, archives, and museums.” Research, innovation and discovery are keywords for RLG, and that has guided their making their unique image collection available to the public. By organizing research information, enabling global resource sharing and fostering digital preservation, they are leaders in information management. Most recently RLG has joined forces with OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center to better serve their respective communities. They share the licensing revenue they generate, with their contributing institutions.

Dan Russelman, President of Index Stock Imagery offers: "Trove.net's amazing collection of culturally and historically relevant material helps Index better serve our professional and consumer market segments. Our editorial customers are excited about the depth of the collection, including subjects not easily found elsewhere like World War Two Japanese-American internment camps, original sketches of patented inventions and historic advertising and packaging labels. Customers visiting the Photostogo.com site can license Trove.net images for posters, cellphone wallpaper and other consumer-oriented applications. So far, Trove.net's great collection of WPA Posters have been very popular with this segment, too."

Just a few recognizable names in the collection are:

American Antiquarian Society
Library of Congress
Natural History Museum
New York University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Oxford
University of Edinburgh

General hard-to-find categories range from architecture and art to literature, medicine, science and technology, along with US and world history. Imagine needing to search for images from such collections as:

-1934 International Longshoremen’s Association and General Strikes of San Francisco.
-Ansel Adams Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.
-Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China.
-Historic American Sheet Music Collection.
-Glass negatives from the papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
-The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin.
-Maps from the National Library of Australia.
-Canterbury Tales.
-Works of William Blake in the Huntington Collections.
-History of Astronomical Observation.
-Russian Children’s Picture Books.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The treasure “Trove” of collections includes the following:

Anatomia -- Full-page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy from 92 rare books, published between 1522 and 1867.

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment -- Over 240 important historical photographs taken by Ansel Adams in 1943, documenting the internees at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California.

Art Education Ephemera -- Probably the largest collection of published material and artifacts relating to art education in America from the early 19th century through the first four decades of the 20th.

Art of Ferdinand Bauer --The most splendid and expensive collection of beautiful drawings of flowers ever produced -- from the original watercolors. They show the range of artistry and the extraordinary level of detail Bauer succeeded in capturing.

Astronomical Observation – Rare historical visual documentation of the history of astronomical observation, from the early pre-telescopic work of Tycho Brahe in the 16th century, through Galileo, to the 19th- and 20th-century work of Hubble, Hale, and the Mt. Wilson Observatory.

California Citrus Labels -- Used for 70 years on the sides of wooden fruit crates, the colorful and decorative 11 x 10-inch labels not only advertised an important agricultural product but also promoted an idyllic image of California aimed at prospective immigrants, investors, and tourists.

Ellesmere Chaucer --The most complete and authoritative source for the text of the Canterbury Tales. 232 vellum leaves, with 23 miniature paintings depicting the Canterbury Pilgrims and many illuminated and decorated borders. Stunning example of an illuminated manuscript.

The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin -- Laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera, and artifacts covering this important discovery in 1920-1925.

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley 1750-1820 -- A collection of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-18th to the early 19th century.

History of Chemistry: Images of Scientists, Laboratories, and Apparatus -- Reflects the history of chemistry, particularly before 1850, items on alchemy, early medicine and pharmacology, metallurgy, mineralogy, and pyrotechnics, chemists, the chemical industry, and chemical education.

History of Photomechanical Reproduction -- Spans the history of photomechanical printing to the 20th century. The subject matter is particularly rich in American material, where the emphasis is on what was then new.

Manuscripts of Isaac Newton and His Associates -- Original scientific manuscripts written by Isaac Newton and his contemporaries. Historically and scientifically important documents.

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts -- These ancient documents delight paleographers, codicologists, art historians, and textual scholars. Lovely calligraphic pages with some illuminations .

Pharmaceutical Trade Cards -- 274 trade cards with whimsical imagery produced in the US and France between 1875 and 1895.

Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition Collection -- Printed material from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition. Advertisements, many of them illustrated, displayed all types of machinery and equipment from manufacturers around the country. A glimpse of late 19th Century technology.

Science in Scotland -- Extensive scientific instrument collection, illustrating the work and lives of many famous Scottish scientists including Lord Kelvin, and the wider impact on the world of science, engineering, and technology.

Star Atlases -- A collection of more than 300 star atlases with constellation maps, presenting examples of works from the "golden age" of the celestial atlas.

Steam Motor Development -- Correspondence, reports, patents, drawings, notebooks and photographs relating to the development of twentieth-century steam technology. Illustrative of innovation in general.

Tebtunis Papyri Collection -- Examples from a collection of papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. Fabulous examples of papyrus.

Tissandier Collection -- The history of lighter-than air flight in Europe, especially ballooning, from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Fine historical graphical images.

U.S. Steel Photograph Collection -- From the time United States Steel established the city of Gary, Indiana, in 1906, until about 1941, company photographers documented the city, the Gary Works, and life in the city and in the plant. A view of early 20th Century industrialization.

William Allen Collection -- Advertisements received by British-born American manufacturer William Allen for manufacturing equipment from the 1840s to 1906. Snapshot of a manufacturing era.

William Gedney Photographs -- Documentary photography throughout the
United States, in India, and in Europe, from the mid 1950s through the early 1980s. These photographs reveal the lives of others with striking sensitivity. Spectacular photography capturing people and places.