Visual Collections: About

About the Visual Collections Site
The Visual Collections site from Cartography Associates contains dozens of digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world. Our mission is to encourage the development of future collections and facilitate their worldwide distribution to both scholars and the general public.

Cartography Associates strives to provide an on-line environment wherein all types of digital collections from a wide range of resources can be seamlessly fused together into one large, comprehensive collection. We have achieved this by allowing users to simultaneously view multiple collections from any category using the Insight® Java Client. While each collection is rich with its own imagery, character, and information, viewing several collections simultaneously creates a powerful set of images for all to study, admire, and enjoy.

Users can search through multiple collections ranging from antiquity to the present for a particular artist, time period, or medium. View ancient Chinese scrolls, architectural slides, modern art installations or historical maps of the Americas all from your desktop using Luna Imaging’s Insight® software.

Searching for a particular collection is easy as they have been organized into 5 topics: Cartography; Fine Arts; Architecture; Photography; and Other; and are also presented as a complete list in the View All tab.

There are both free and subscription based collections. By clicking on the Description link below each collection a separate pop-up window will appear with a full description of the collection and a link to its main site. All collections are presented in the Luna Insight® software and many offer the collection in both the Insight® Browser and Insight® Java Client. Using the viewing tools in the Image Workspace, both the Insight Browser and Insight Java Client will allow you to perform a variety of tasks such as zooming, viewing image data, panning and scrolling, and printing of the image and its data. For a quick glance at the power of Insight, visit our Insight® Flash Tutorial.

View our Help page for a list of FAQ’s and Insight tutorial links. To learn about adding your collection, visit our Contact page. Our site was designed and developed by Ideum.

About Cartography Associates
Cartography Associates, founded in 1996, promotes the distribution of digital facsimiles both in print and electronic media. Specializing in both primary source documents and cutting-edge technology, Cartography Associates is committed to developing tools that integrate cataloging with visual images on the Internet. CA’s vision is to offer users the best of both worlds: the powerful searching, access, and user functionality made possible by technology, combined with the visual beauty, technical mastery and intellectual richness of original source materials.

Copyright Information
Images may not be reproduced or transmitted unless for personal use. For commercial use or republication, contact the listed organization or collection by using the Visit Collection Site link in the description pop-up windows.