FAQ: Medical Stock Sources (Sources of Medical Images, Photographs and Videos)
Question: Where can I find medical "stock shots," videos, photographs, slides or images?
Answer:
Use these resources to find medical "stock shots," videos, photographs slides or images:
- US Government Resources
- Other Medical Stock Image & Footage Resources: | A - G | H - Z
NLM® does not recommend or endorse the products or services at these Web sites. We provide this list as a service to you.
If you know of other sources you think should be added, please forward your suggestions to us at custserv@nlm.nih.gov .
US Government Medical Stock Image & Footage
Most of these images and graphics are in the public domain. However, some images may be protected by license. Read the disclaimers on each site before use. For information about obtaining seals of Federal Agencies and the United States, please see the Government Printing Office website at http://www.gpo.gov/
- US Government Photos and Graphics
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) is the NLM database of nearly 70,000 historical images. They document social and historical aspects of medicine from the Middle Ages to the present.
The URL is http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/.
You can also search IHM through LocatorPlus® and NLM Catalog, NLM's online catalogs, for holdings and item availability
http://locatorplus.gov
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=nlmcatalog - Our Interlibrary Loan Fact Sheet explains how to borrow items from NLM's audiovisual collection
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/ill.html - The Visible Human Project®
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/visible_human.html - MedPix
Over 48,000 images and nearly 11,000 peer-reviewed case teaching files
Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD
http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/ - NCI Visuals Online, National Cancer Institute
Telephone: 301-402-7488
E-mail: nciocomm-r@mail.nih.gov
URL: http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ - National Eye Institute, Photograph, Image & Video Catalog
2020 Vision Place
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-3655
Telephone: 301-496-5248
E-mail: 2020@nei.nih.gov
URL: http://www.nei.nih.gov/photo/ - PHIL - Public Health Image Library
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
E-mail: mbr1@cdc.gov
URL: http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/default.asp - US Census Bureau Broadcast & Photo Services
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/photos/index.html - US Library of Congress collection at the flickr Web site.
http://www.loc.gov/
Medical Stock Image & Footage Resources: A - G
Adventure Imagery
6 Bayview Avenue
Belvedere, California 94920
Telephone: 415-992-7718
E-mail: stockfootage@AdventureImagery.com
URL: http://www.AdventureImagery.com
The Art Archive
27 W. 20th Street, Suite 1004
New York, New York 10011
Telephone: 212 673-5600
E-mail: info.usa@picture-desk.com
URL: http://www.picture-desk.com/
Biology Image Library
BioMed Central Ltd
Middlesex House
34-42 Cleveland Street
London W1T 4LB United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 0323
E-mail: info@biologyimagelibrary.com
URL: http://images.biologyimagelibrary.com/
Blackstone Stock Footage
509 Upsall Drive
Antioch, Tennessee 37013
Telephone: 615-731-5310
E-mail: g.clifford@worldnet.att.net
URL: http://www.blackstonestockfootage.com/
Budget Films Stock Footage, Inc.
4427 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90029
Telephone: 323-660-0187
Fax: 323-660-5571
E-mail: filmclip@aol.com
URL: http://www.budgetfilms.com/
Burns Archive Historic Vintage Photographs
140 East 38th Street
New York, New York 10016
Telephone: 212-889-1938
Fax: 212-481-9113
E-mail: burns@inch.com
URL: http://www.burnsarchive.com/
Can Stock Photo Inc.
1096 Queen St., Suite 166
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 2R9
Canada
Also has employees in the U.S.
E-mail: info@canstockphoto.com
URL: http://www.canstockphoto.com/
CELLS alive!
Quill Graphics
568 Taylor's Gap Road
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-7619
Telephone: 434-296-8994
E-mail: inbx@cellsalive.com
URL: http://www.cellsalive.com/
Corbis Images International
902 Broadway Avenue
New York, New York 10010
Telephone: 800-545-4514
Fax: 212-228-1835
E-mail: infointernational@corbis.com
URL: http://www.corbisimages.com/
Custom Medical Stock Photo, Inc.
3660 West Irving Park Road
Chicago, Illinois 60618-4132
Telephone: 800-373-2677 or 773-267-3100
Fax: 773-267-6071
E-mail: info@cmsp.com
URL: http://www.cmsp.com/
Cutcaster
SF Film Centre Building
39 Mesa St.
Suite 101
San Francisco, California 94129
Telephone: 1-215-688-2751
E-mail: webmaster@cutcaster.com
URL: http://cutcaster.com/
depositphotos®
Telephone: 1-954-990-0075
URL: http://depositphotos.com/
Dorling Kindersley Limited
DK Clip Art Online Department
80 Strand
London, England WC2R ORL
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7010 3000
Fax: +44 (0)20 7010 6060
E-mail: customerservice@dk.com
URL: http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/home.html
The Doe Report
900 Circle 75 Parkway
Suite 720
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
Telephone: 800-338-5954
Fax: 770-805-0430
E-mail: info@doereport.com
URL: http://www.doereport.com/
DVArchive.com
1784 Poli St.
Ventura, CA 93001
Telephone: 818-359-4035
Fax: 805-715-0513
E-mail: rick@dvarchive.com
URL: http://www.dvarchive.com/
Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation
310 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60604-9839
Telephone: 800-621-3900 or 312-347-7900
Fax: 312-347-7903
URL: http://www.eb.com/
FOOTAGE.net--Stock Footage, On-Line & On-Demand
Full Circle Productions, Inc.
35 S Main Street
P.O. Box 168
Hanover New Hampshire 03755
Telephone: 603-643-0288
Fax: 603-643-0515 fax
E-mail: info@footage.net
URL: http://www.footage.net/
Foto Search Stock Photography
21155 Watertown Road
Waukesha, Wisconsin 53186-1898
Telephone US:1-800-827-3720
Telephone International: +1 262 717 0740
URL: http://www.fotosearch.com/
LifeART is part of Foto Search
framepool AG - within North America
Schwere-Reiter-Strasse 35 Haus 14
80797 Munich
Germany
Telephone: 386-428 0586
Fax: 386-427 0968
E-mail: americas@framepool.de
URL: http://www.framepool.com/
framepool AG - outside of North America
Telephone: +49 (89) 307 648 60
Fax: +49 (89) 307 648 70
E-mail: info@framepool.de
gettyimages
Getty Images, New York office
75 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
Telephone: 646-613-4000
Telephone: Sales: +1 800 462 4379
URL: http://www.gettyimages.com/Home.aspx
Medical Stock Image & Footage Resources: H - Z
images.MD - now part of Springer Images - within North America
http://www.springerimages.com/imagesMD/
Springer Science & Business Media
Springer Customer Service Center
P.O Box 2485
Secaucus, N.J.07094-2485
Telephone: 1–888–777–4643 (Weekdays 8:30am–5:30pm ET)
Fax: +1-201–255–7017
E-mail: springerlink-ny@springer.com
URL: http://www.springerimages.com/imagesMD/
images.MD - now part of Springer Images - outside of North America
Springer Science & Business Media
Springer Customer Service Center
Haberstrasse 7
D-69126 Heidelberg
Germany
Telephone: +49 6221 345–4303 (Weekdays 8:00am–8pm)
Fax: Fax: +49 6221 345–4229
E-mail: springerlink@springer.com
Index Stock Photography, Inc. (now, part of photolibrary)
23 West 18th Street
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
telephone (toll-free): 800-690-6979
Telephone: 212-929-4644
Fax: 212-633-1914
E-mail: ussales@photolibrary.com
URL: http://www.photolibrary.com/
Hon Media Gallery
Health on the Net (HON) Foundation
Medical Informatics Division
University Hospital of Geneva
1211 Geneva 14
Switzerland
Telephone: +41-22-372-62-73
Fax: +41-22-372-61-98
E-mail: info@hon.ch
URL: http://www.hon.ch/Media/media.html
Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Medical Images and Illustrations
Links to US and international sources
Box 200, SE-171 77 Stockholm
Berzelius väg 7B, Solna
(visiting address)
Telephone: +46 8 524 84 000
Fax: +46 8 524 84 320
email: E-mail: ub@ki.se
URL: http://www.mic.stacken.kth.se/MEDIMAGES.html
LifeART is part of Foto Search
URL: http://www.fotosearch.com/lifeart/
Medical-On-Line Ltd
2nd Floor Patman House
23 - 27 Electric Parade
George Lane
South Woodford
London, England E18 2LS
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8530 7589
Fax: +44 (0)20 8989 7795
E-mail: info@mediscan.co.uk
URL: http://www.mediscan.co.uk/
Medmovie.com
167 West Main Street
Suite 1210
Lexington, KY 40507
Telephone: 859.225.6400
Fax: 859.2215.6401
URL: http://www.medmovie.com/
Motifolio, Inc.
P.O. Box 2040
Ellicott City, MD 21041
E-mail: info@motifolio.com
URL: http://www.motifolio.com/
Nucleus Medical Art
1275 Shiloh Road, N.W.
Suite 3130
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
Telephone: 800-333-0753
E-mail: service@nucleusinc.com
URL: http://catalog.nucleusinc.com/catalogindex.php
Photos To Go
23 West 18th Street
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
Telephone: 800-486-7118 or 212-929-1068
E-mail: info@photostogo.com
URL: http://www.photostogo.com/
Stock photography for graphic designers and small businesses.
Phototake - The Creative and Biomedia Link
224 West 29th Street, 9th Floor
New York, New York 10001
Telephone: 800-542-3686 or 212-736-2525
Fax: 212-736-1919
E-mail: phototake@earthlink.net
URL: http://www.phototakeusa.com/
Pond5, Inc
419 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10003
Telephone: 646-233-2155
E-mail: contact@pond5.com
URL: http://www.pond5.com/
Science Source
Division of Photo Researchers
60 East 56th Street
New York, New York 10022
Telephone: 800-833-9033
E-mail: info@photoresearchers.com
URL: http://www.photoresearchers.com
Stock Footage Index Online
32 Queensway
London W2 3RX
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 727 4236
Fax: +44 (0) 207 792 4034
E-mail: space@creativecityonline.com
URL: http://www.stockfootageonline.com/
The Stock Solution
307 West 200 South, #1003
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
Telephone: 801-363-9700
Fax: 801-363-9707
E-mail: info@tssphoto.com
URL: http://www.tssphoto.com/
TV Data
Goncharova str. 8/13-60
1287254 Moscow
Russia
+7(095) 502-6511
+7(095) 219-6757
E-mail: info@tvdata.ru
URL: http://www.tvdata.ru/
You can find more information (general topic coverage) in the book, AV Marketplace (New York: Information Today, Inc.).
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