SAHARA is a digital image archive developed over the past four years 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 has been developed for all who study, interpret, photograph, design and preserve the built environment worldwide.

SAHARA now has nearly 40,000 images that were contributed by architects, scholars, photographers, graduate students, preservationists and others who share an interest in the built world.

If you are a current SAH member and need your user name or password to sign into SAHARA, please send an email inquiry to membership@sah.org.

If you are not a current SAH member and would like to access SAHARA, please join the Society now. To renew your SAH membership, click here.

Not sure if SAHARA is an online resource for you?  SAH now offers 7 day guest accounts to SAHARA so you can try it and see if it serves your research and lecture needs.  To request guest account, please send an email to membership@sah.org

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.