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Arizona Regional Image Archive |
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Description |
The Arizona Regional Image Archive contains USGS quadrangle maps and orthophotos of Arizona and some surrounding areas (including New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Sonora, Mexico). To download maps, users must register with the site; however, registration is free. This resource is particularly useful for people wishing to do GIS-based analyses. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Digital images |
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Link |
http://aria.arizona.edu/ |
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Center for Southwest Studies—Digital Image Access Homepage, Fort Lewis College |
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Description |
The "Digital Image Access Homepage" is the beginning of Fort Lewis College's attempt to digitize documents, collection forms, and photographs, specifically those dealing with prehistoric and historic southwestern Colorado human history. This site, operated by the Center for Southwest Studies, allows access to a large public database of images. These include handwritten collections acquisition forms, sketches and photographs of museum artifacts, and historic documents. In addition, this site provides a number of educational resources, particularly for K-12 educators. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Digital images |
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Link |
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/images/SWImagesHome.htm#FOI4 |
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Title |
Chaco Culture National Historical Park Museum Collections |
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Description |
This online exhibit provides access to images and information about the resources in the Chaco Collection (a result of over 100 years of excavation in Chaco Canyon). Object images are organized into 6 categories (daily life, subsistence, technology, trade, communication, and all object images). Also available are slide shows relating to Chaco National Historical Park, and links to other relevant resources. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Digital images, Museum |
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Link |
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/chcu/ |
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Title |
Chaco Image Gallery |
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Description |
This resource provides images of Chaco Canyon. The photographs were taken by Adriel Hiesey and published in the Winter 2000 issue of Archaeology Southwest (Volume 14 No 1). |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Digital images |
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Link |
http://www.centerfordesertarchaeology.org/pages/library/onli |
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Title |
Colorado Plateau Digital Archives Search |
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Description |
This web site, provided by the Special Collections and Archives Department of NAU's Cline Library, provides online access to a number of items in NAU's Special Collections, most notably historic photographs. This is a great resource for digital images of northern Arizona. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Library |
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Link |
http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/ |
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Title |
Earth Science Photographic Archive |
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Description |
This site contains photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Photo Library. The collection consists of over 25,100 photos ranging in age from 1868 through 1992, including many from the Southwest. The photographs in this library are not copyrighted and may be used freely. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Digital images |
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Link |
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/ |
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Title |
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian |
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Description |
This Library of Congress exhibit provides digital copies of photographs published in The North American Indian, by Edward S. Curtis, and also contains an excellent discussion of the context and significance of Curtis' work. The "Southwest" volume will be of interest to Southwesternists, while the entire collection is a great resource for those interested in American Indian Studies. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Online exhibit, State/federal agency |
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Link |
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html |
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Title |
Hovenweep Virtual Reality Tour |
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Description |
This web site provides a virtual tour of Hovenweep Park. Hovenweep is unique in that the standing structures have not been reconstructed; they have been stabilized, but not rebuilt. Today these structures that haven’t been inhabited for over 700 years stand as they were first discovered for all to enjoy. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Online exhibit, National/state park or heritage site |
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Link |
http://www.abouthovenweep.com/mainTimeLine/mainTimeLine.html |
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Title |
Native American Rock Art of the Southwestern United States |
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Description |
This personal web site provides images of rock art from the northern Southwest, focusing on Ancestral Puebloan and Fremont sites. The site is maintained by Doak Heyser. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Personal web site |
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Link |
http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/rockart.html |
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Title |
Petroglyph/Rock Art Sites in Southern Nevada |
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Description |
This site provides digital images of the rock art from a large number of sites in Clark County, Nevada. Also included is a section on Rock Art Etiquette. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Personal web site |
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Link |
http://www.nevadarockart.info/ |
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Title |
Rock Art of the Southwest |
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Description |
This personal web site, provided by Richard Heather, features digital photographs of Southwestern rock art. The images are computer-enhanced. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Personal web site, Digital images |
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Link |
http://www.slonet.org/~rheather/rock.htm |
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Title |
The Chaco Portal Web Site |
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Description |
This web site allows visitors to view a synopsis of archaeological research done on Chaco, to link to other Chacoan web sites, to view and search the bibliography of Chacoan research. Also, it is also possible to view profiles of archaeologists who have done research on some aspect of the Chacoan phenomenon. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Academic program, Online exhibit |
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Link |
http://anthro.fortlewis.edu/chacoportal/index.htm |
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Title |
The Photography Collection, Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library |
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Description |
This photograph collection, provided by the Western History / Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library in partnership with the Colorado Historical Society and Denver Art Museum, includes a search engine for 100,000 on-line historic photographs of western states. Many images of the Southwest are available. The site also contains images of artifacts from the Colorado Historical Society and Denver Art Museum. High-resolution prints of the images are available for sale. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Library, Digital images, Historic photographs |
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Link |
http://www.photoswest.org/ |
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Title |
The Rock Art Foundation |
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Description |
This foundation focuses on the rock art of the lower Pecos Valley of Southwest Texas. The web site provides, along with basic information about the organization, a FAQ section with useful information about the rock art of this region and a gallery with digital photos. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Nonprofit organization |
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Link |
http://www.rockart.org/ |
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Title |
The Southwest Anthropology and Archaeology Pages |
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Description |
This site, created by James Q. Jacobs, provides excellent photographs and informative, though brief descriptions of various ruins and artifacts from the Southwest, mostly from the Colorado Plateau area, including Hovenweep, Betatakin, and of course Chaco Canyon. For each archaeological site, there are also links provided to other important, related websites. Worth mentioning are the impressive photograph galleries of rock art from the Southwest, such as Canyon de Chelly. The amount and quality of the photographs on this site are what really make this web site stand out, along with the ease of navigation between areas. Each photo can also be easily enlarged. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Personal web site |
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Link |
http://www.jqjacobs.net/southwest/index.html |
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Title |
University of Arizona Herbarium |
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Description |
The University of Arizona Herbarium (ARIZ) is the largest herbarium in the arid southwest and contains the largest collection in the world of plants from Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The ARIZ web site provides information about visiting, but it also contains a useful catalog of photographs as well as information on an ongoing specimen database project. Detailed information about the database, which will geo-reference all Arizona vascular plant collections by 2006, can be downloaded in the "projects" section of the site. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Academic program |
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Link |
http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/ |
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Title |
Virtual field trip of the American Southwest: Photo catalog |
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Description |
This collection of photographs, a project of the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge, is organized as a "virtual field trip," complete with journal entries. Although some of the photographs are of areas outside the Southwest, this is a nice resource for anyone looking for visual images of well-known Southwestern locations. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Digital images, Academic program |
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Link |
http://www.uleth.ca/vft/SW_USA/photo-list.html |
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Title |
Virtual Reconstruction of the Chetro Ketl Great Kiva |
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Description |
This site presents a three-dimensional reconstruction of a Great Kiva, an architectural feature found in many prehistoric Anasazi communities in the Southwestern United States. This particular model was created using archaeological records from the excavated Chetro Ketl Great Kiva, which is located in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. The model contains over 1,000 objects. |
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Language |
English |
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Resource Type |
Personal web site, Digital images |
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Link |
http://sipapu.gsu.edu/html/kiva.html |
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