Medical Images

Medical Images Resources
This subject guide, created by the Medical Center Library, contains links to medical image Websites and related resources, including information on copyright, etc.

Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) Database
The Medical Center Library's Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.

Images from the History of Medicine
This Website provides access to nearly 60,000 images from the prints and photograph collection of the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division. Collections focus on the social and historical aspects of medicine including portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, posters, and graphic art.

Medicine and Madison Avenue
The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines primarily from the 1910s to the 1950s. Produced by the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

Other Images

Image Databases
Duke University Libraries subscribe to a number of image databases, including Associated Press photographs and art images. Note: check individual database policies before using any images. Access to some databases is restricted to authorized Duke users. To begin searching in a database, click on the database name.

Google Image Search
Google Image Search searches the Web for images. Note: Check individual Website policies before using any images.