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Aerial Photographs of Colorado

Aerial photographs dramatically portray the changing landscape of Colorado: a mountain valley can be seen where there is now a reservoir; changes in the vegetation and ground cover can be traced over the years, and the growth of towns and cities documented. This collection provides access to almost 1,700 digitized aerial photographs of Colorado taken by the U.S. Forest Service in the years from 1938 to 1947.

Luna Insight Community Collections

Claire Holt Indonesian Art Images

The Claire Holt Papers contains slides which were created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project to document Indonesian art, architecture, ceremonies, landscapes, painting, people, sculpture, textiles, and theater. Claire Holt traveled to Indonesia in 1930 where she studied dance, worked with anthropologist Willem Stutterheim, and then assisted Swedish dance archivist and patron Rolf de Mare with his photo and film record of Indonesian dance. She came to Cornell University where, in 1962, she helped found the Modern Indonesia Project.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online selection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. The digital images and associated descriptive data are © Cartography Associates.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum has one of the finest collections of art in New York State and is recognized as one of the most important university museums in the country. Spanning the history of art, the Museum's collections are especially strong in Asian Art, nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, and the graphic arts. Images are available in thumbnail and zoom level 2 only.

Japanese Historical Maps Collection

The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library contains early maps of Japan and the World. Represented in this online collection are a selection of maps and books from the collection. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library at U.C. Berkeley, and scanned and put online by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. Most noteworthy in the collection are a range of Japanese city maps dating back 300 years.

Museums and Online Archive of California (MOAC)

The MOAC collection is comprised of selected works from the permanent collections of eight California museums: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Japanese American National Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley; Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA; California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside.

Political Americana Collection

The Cornell University Collection of Political Americana is comprised of Presidential promotional and commemorative items dating from 1789 to 1980. The collection contains political materials in a variety of formats, including cartoons, prints, and posters; lapel buttons, ribbons, textiles; hats, and other costume items; ballets, broadsides, leaflets, and other ephemera; pamphlets and other formal publications; sheet music and songbooks; and three-dimensional items. Elections from 1832 to 1960 are particularly well represented.

Rare and Manuscript Collections (Cornell University)

Rare and Manuscript Collections is a growing collection of digital reproductions of visual material in rare books, manuscripts and archival collections, including the Cornell University Archives.

Reuleaux Kinematic Mechanisms

This collection contains a sampling of 20 Reuleaux kinematic mechanisms. Kinematics flourished in the 19th century as machine inventors learned to transmit information and forces (power) from one element in the machine to another. Franz Reuleaux, Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Zurich and Berlin, set out to analyze, codify, and synthesize kinematic mechanisms so that engineers could approach machine design in a rational way. These Reuleaux models are owned by Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.

User Guides, Software Documentation, and Other Helpful Resources

Insight Support and Documentation
Luna Imaging, Inc.

Consult online help for specific questions or view the guided tour.

UC Digital Image Collections: Luna Insight Software Quick Guide
California Digital Libraries (CDL)

This two page pdf describes how to search, open an image in the Image Workspace, create groups and presentations, and export images. It also describes the differences between BrowserInsight and the JVA client.

RUL Luna Insight JVA Client and Browser Support Page
Rutgers University

This site includes extensive guides and documentation on all aspects of the Insight software under the sections entitled “Browser 5.0 and JVA Client 5.0 Comparisons”, “How would I …”, and “Guides”.

Insight User Guides
Brown University

This site offers five user guides that cover system overview, searching, creating groups and presentations, and exporting images.

Quick Guide for Using Insight
Stanford University

This pdf gives directions for creating presentations and study sets.

Virginia Tech's Luna Insight Digital Image Database
Virginia Tech

This site presents three useful guides: Accessing the Database & Collections Browse, Search & Export/Print Images, Exporting an Insight Presentation into HTML or PowerPoint.

Luna Insight Tutorial
Washington University in St. Louis

This tutorial gives guidance on Insight’s searching, image manipulation, and presentation tools.