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Visual Resources Center

STAFF

Curator of Visual Resources

Nancy Alexander

Graduate Assistants

Anne Griffith
Doug Underwood

Undergraduate Assistants

 

LOCATION AND HOURS

Visual Resources Center and Anderson Photo Collection
University of Missouri - Columbia
Department of Art History & Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65212

phone: 573-882-6712
fax: 573-884-5269

hours: 8:00am-12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday

summer hours: 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 12:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday

Imaging Lab, Photo Archive and Marburger Index
Parker Hall

VireoWeb: Online database with images, click here. Password protected site for faculty and grad students. Please contact the VRC for further information.

Description

The Visual Resources Center houses a large number of images of works of art and architecture spanning the distance from prehistory to contemporary art. The VRC includes the following collections:

  • Slide library, consisting of approximately 135,000 35mm slides, housed in Pickard Hall
  • A growing digital image database available online to faculty and TAs, maintained at the Parker Hall Imaging Lab
  • Anderson Photo Collection, containing over 80,000 photographs from Alinari and prints from the private English collections of the Courtauld Institute
  • Department photo archive, consisting of approximately 18,000 images mounted and archived for classroom use
  • Lantern slide collection, consisting of approximately 10,000 lantern slides, most dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Marburger Index, a microfiche collection of more than 520,000 images of German art

Online resources

  • Museums: Links to museums worldwide
  • VireoWeb: ARHA Digital Image collection (password required, available to Art History and Archaeology faculty and grad students at this time)

Instructions for Use

The facility may be used by:

  • MU Faculty
  • MU Students
  • Museum of Art and Archaeology Staff
  • Museum of Art and Archaeology Docents

Slides may be checked out for a 24 hour period. There is a late fee of $0.25 for each day a slide is not returned. In addition, a charge of $6.00 will be applied for all lost or damaged slides. Duplication of slides is not permitted. Please contact the Curator of Visual Resources for access to any of the VRC collections.
 

 

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