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To find books containing images, there are different ways to search depending on the type of images you want.

Keyword Works with Example or note
Views Geographical features, buildings, sites Mostly replaced by broader term, "Pictorial works"
Aerial views Geographical features  
Pictorial works Wide range of subjects  
Photographs Wide range of subjects  
Aerial photographs Geographical features, some historical events Good for wartime, natural catastrophes
Photographs from space   Specific locations on earth  
Illustrations Historical or literary topics Finds primarily book illustrations
Drawings Scientific terms, built environment terms Finds technical and scientific illustrations
  Places, animals, objects Wales in Art
    Elephants in Art
Copyright-free Clip art, illustrations, decorative borders  
Portraits Names of people, types of people Athletes - portraits

Useful Websites

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The Met has over 1500 image-heavy Met-published books and online publications available for web-based viewing or, in many cases, PDF downloads. Many of the titles are from the last 50 years and are searchable by author, title or keyword, and by all Met departments.

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Getty Publications publishes titles from the work of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute. Topics include art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities, with over 250 titles over the last 40 years.

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The Guggenheim's publishing arm has made their archives of exhibition catalogues and early publications available for web-based viewing. Especially good for international artists from the 1960s to 1980s.