Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/resources
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Pictures, drawings and media files
Please use pictures and drawings in the article! Pictures, drawings, videos etc. should be uploaded to the Commons, not to any national Wiki. For more information see Commons:About and the Commons:FAQ. For naming the image files, see: Commons:CommonsProject Architecture#Naming_of_Files.
- Images, sketches, drawings and photographs may also be requested at WikiProject Architecture/Requested images or Wikipedia:Requested pictures
 Free image sources for the United States | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | License | Tag | |
| Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States) | Various | N/A | |
| Historic American Buildings Survey () | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
| Historic American Engineering Record () | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
| Historic American Landscapes Survey | P.D | {{PD-USGov}} | |
| National Park Service ( and ) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} | |
| U.S. Coast Guard () | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}} | |
| Library of Congress - American Memory () | P.D. | {{LOC-image}} | |
| Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs () | P.D. (not all) | {{LOC-image}} | |
| NOAA () | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}} | |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service () | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
| Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr () | C.C. | {{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}} | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture () | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
- Category:Architecture in the Commons
- www.greatbuildings.com - Architecture database
Information databases
- www.archinform.net - Architecture database archINFORM (en/de), here you can find many literature links
- www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro - SPIRO, an image database, from the Architecture Visual Resources Library at UC Berkeley
- www.structurae.de - Database Structurae with engineer buildings (en/de/fr)
- Online Catalogue of the Canadian Centre for Architecture - architects and architecture (photographs, prints, drawings)
- www.imagesofengland.org.uk - Registration required but is free - Images are copyrighted but most listed buildings are described in a detailed shorthand
Terminology
- aat - a source of controlled vocabulary (used in CCA documentation) for art and architectural terms