Historical Images
- 1789-1939 L’Histoire par L’ImageThis growing collection of historical images from France is a collaborative project of several academic and cultural institutions and the French government. The images are carefully selected and fully described.
- AP Newsroom This link opens in a new windowCollection of historic and current photographs, most of the images date from 1995 forward includes top news stories, photos, audio clips and print graphics, as well as descriptive captions and source information. Formerly, AP Images. This site is an ever-changing collection of over 700,000 photographs from the Associated Press news service, historic images.
[Coverage: 1844-present; current file contains 1995-present] - American West: Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago This link opens in a new windowThe Everett D. Graff Collection is one of the major special collections on the American West. This database contains a full-text selection of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources from that collection. It also includes such supplementary materials as scholarly essays and data maps. It is a rich resource to explore almost any aspect of the history of the American West.
- Chinese in California, 1850-1925This website offers a topical approach to the material presented in the Chinese in California digital archive.
Visit the Online Archive of California to see a guide to the full collection, including linked digital images:
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5p3019m2/ - Forest History Society Photograph CollectionsPhotographs from the first half of the Twentieth Century on a surprisingly wide range of subjects including the San Francisco Earthquake, the Boy Scouts and Farming.
- Los Angeles Public Library Photo CollectionThis collection contains images from the 1850s to the present, documenting all aspects of life in Southern California, with an emphasis on Los Angeles.
- NYC Municipal Archives Collections This link opens in a new windowThis extraordinarily rich image database of over 870,000 photographs, maps, motion picture and audio recordings is divided into 30 distinct collections. Collections are organized in numerous ways; most of them are either by the administrations of city mayors and borough presidents, or by municipal department, or by material or subject type.
[Coverage: 19th century - 20th century]
- Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image ArchiveThis is an online collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs of the Mississippi Valley along the Iowa/Illinois border. They are selected from the collections of several libraries, museums and colleges in the area.
- Wellcome Collection Catalogue This link opens in a new windowThe library catalog of one of the premiere collections in the history of medicine which includes an option to search only among the digitized images of objects in their collections which cover a broad variety of subjects associated with the history of medicine.