Spring Equinox is here

20th March this year marks the Spring Equinox for the northern hemisphere. The equinox is when day and night are the same lengths. The word equinox meaning ‘equal night’‚ in Latin. To many cultures, Spring equinox is traditionally celebrated as a time of rebirth with spring holidays and festivals. As we emerge from the colder days […]

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Spectacle of fireworks in art

Fireworks are great to see and experience. Capturing a still image of fireworks with photography is easy to do, especially with modern cameras and smart phone cameras that do a lot of the work in their powerful software getting the exposure and frame rate correct, so all you do is click the button. But consider […]

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Collection Spotlight: Florilegius

UIG are pleased to add the Florilegius collection to our archive.  Florilegius, the passion of collector Richard Jeffery, offers more than 35,000 engravings, illustrations, archival prints, and lithographs of a variety of subjects. Well-known for its deep coverage of botanical illustrations, Florilegius built its comprehensive botanical image archive from its collection of flower magazines, botany books […]

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Visual Trove – UIG’s Prints Site

UIG has added content of Italian Heritage and Historical Events to its Visual Trove print-on-demand site. Visual Trove offers hundreds of posters to help you decorate your home, classroom, office, hotel, or dorm.  In addition to the two new categories, Visual Trove offers customers subjects covering Historical World Maps; Propaganda; Vintage Theater Posters; Product Advertisements; and Vintage […]

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UIG’s visualtrove.com prints site

UIG’s http://www.visualtrove.com site offers hundreds of posters to help you decorate your home, classroom, office, hotel, or dorm.  The visualtrove.com site features content from UIG’s Prints & Posters collection and offers customers subjects covering Historical World Maps; Propaganda; Vintage Theater Posters; Product Advertisements; Vintage Travel Posters and Historical Events. In addition to the content available […]

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Who We Are

Universal Images Group, founded by George Sinclair in 2008, aggregates and distributes content to the global licensing and merchandising markets.  UIG has grown to represent content collections from more than 120 agency suppliers and nearly 175 photographers.  UIG’s subject specialties include World History, Fine Art, Science & Medicine, Environmental Science, Developing World, World Religions and Cultures, Archaeology, […]

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