New Online Archive of LA Images

The launch of SAHARA marks a new era in which the Society of Architectural Historians will both collect and distribute digital images to support research and teaching around the world. It will create a new storehouse of digital photographs and reliable information for all who design, photograph, study and teach about architecture and landscapes.

At its recent annual meeting the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), inaugurated SAHARA, a new online photo archive of architecture and landscape images. SAHARA (SAH Architecture Resources Archive) has been designed as a collective, user-contributed collection that will enable SAH members to upload (and share) images, and download (and use) images that were submitted by others for teaching and research. SAH has partnered with the ARTstor digital library to create SAHARA. Development of the new online resource, which is strictly non-commercial in nature, has been funded by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The launch of SAHARA marks a new era in which the Society will both collect and distribute digital images to support research and teaching around the world. SAH has developed SAHARA so that architectural historians, architects, historic preservationists, librarians and others can join together to create an enormous shared online resource of enormous international importance.

The Society of Architectural Historians is developing SAHARA because it holds enormous promise for the architecture, preservation and architectural history fields. Commenting on SAHARA, Dietrich Neumann, SAH President and Professor of Architectural History and Urban Studies at Yale and Brown Universities, stated,

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