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The London Archives

Metropolitan Visual Heritage Digital Archive

The London Archives transformed metropolitan heritage access with iBase DAM, creating the London Picture Archive with 250,000+ photographs, maps and drawings featuring interactive mapping, virtual galleries, high-resolution pan-and-scan viewing, touch screen gallery displays, and comprehensive rights-managed licensing serving researchers, media outlets, academics and creative industries.

The London Picture Archive contains over 250,000 photographs, prints and drawings as well as over 1,000 maps from London Metropolitan Archives. It is a constantly growing collection, with new material being added every week.

The London Picture Archive is visited by a huge array of casual users, researchers, academics, media outlets and creative industries.

Its rich and diverse content spanning hundreds of years of London history make it an idea resource for anyone wanting to discover more about or represent London through the ages.

Recently updated to take advantage of the constant improvements in technology, the London Picture Archive offers the user multiple ways to interact with its content.

These include:

London Picture Map
Virtual galleries
Search by artists, people, subject and places
Best sellers and highlights
High resolution images with pan and scan
Gallery touch screen for viewing and ordering prints
Online ordering of prints and digital files
Rights-managed licencing of images

London Metropolitan Archives Building
The service we receive from the iBase support team in maintaining and developing our image management system and website is effective and responsive. Their friendly and helpful approach to problem solving is very much appreciated.
The London Archives (City of London)

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