Visual Resources of the Middle East Project Created at Yale

From Yale University:

Yale University holds a wide array of images from the Middle East across its encyclopedic collections. The Visual Resources of the Middle East (VRME) project was created with the assistance of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale as a means to collect works of art, documentary photographs, and diverse objects from different libraries and galleries at Yale onto one platform, with the goal of introducing the materials to a diverse audience at and beyond Yale through free and open accessibility.

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The VRME project website provides additional information about the different collections and links to the entire collection that is housed in Artstor’s public collections (link is external). At present a highlights collection, the VRME will continue to grow as new material from across the university is catalogued and uploaded.

The archival holdings that the VRME project is focusing on are housed in the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Sterling Memorial Library, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Lewis Walpole collection. The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) has manuscript paintings from early modern Iran and India, and strong holdings in textiles, ceramics, numismatics, photography and contemporary art. At the Yale Center for British Art and the Lewis Walpole Library 18th- and 19th- century highlights include paintings and objects that document the history of the Middle East, especially under colonial rule. Sterling Memorial Library offers visual resources from books and periodicals published in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish, while the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library houses numerous scientific manuscripts. Beinecke Library’s renowned rare book and manuscript collections encompass resources from Safavid Shahnama manuscripts to 20th-century field photographs.

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