SAHARA is a new digital image archive developed in 2008 and 2009 by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with ARTstor.   Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SAHARA allows SAH members either to upload their own digital photographs and QTVR panoramas to a shared online archive or to download images from the archive for teaching and research.  The SAHARA collection is being built for all who study, interpret, photograph, design and preserve the built environment worldwide.

SAHARA launched on April 1, 2009 with 10,000 images that were contributed by scholars at MIT, Brown, University of Virginia, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and by independent photographers and historians.  If you are a current SAH member and need your user name or password, please send an email inquiry to membership@sah.org.  If you are not a current SAH member and want to access SAHARA, please join the Society now. To renew your SAH membership, click here.

Please contribute to SAHARA by uploading your architectural and landscape images today.  Also, please avail yourself of the collection of images that have been contributed by your peers.  Visit it often because the collection will be constantly growing as SAH members share their photographs and QTVRs for the advancement of teaching and research in our profession.  Contributions by established scholars, students, architects, preservationists, and those who have chosen architectural history as an avocation are welcome.

Simply log in using the button above on the right, which will take you to the SAHARA site within ARTstor.  We look forward to your contributions to SAHARA.