The American Memory Project
Ad Access --more than 7,000 ads from 1911-1955 from Duke University's Special Collections
Age of King Charles V, 1338-1380: 1000 Illuminations --from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945 --more than 100,000 photographs from the American Memory Project
American Environmental Photographs --from the American Memory Project
American Institute of Physics --thousands of digitized photos from the Emilio Segre Visual Archives
Archives of American Art --from the Smithsonian Institution
Australian Images --more than 20,000 images from the National Library of Australia
Beinecke -- Exhibitions -- The Illustrating Traveler --illustrations from North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895
British Columbia Historical Photographs Online --from the Archives Association of British Columbia
Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera --from the American Memory Project
Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature --searchable database of online cartoons from the University of Kent at Canterbury
Civil War Photographs --from the American Memory Project
Collage --online database of 20,000 images from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery of London; great source for English history
Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864 --from the American Memory Project
Digital Archive of Art --online images from Boston College
Digital History -- includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology
Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian --this American Memory Project web site includes more than 2000 images of Indian customs and lifeways, as photographed by Edward Curtis
Egypt and the Sudan: 1905-1907 Breasted Expedition: A Photographic Study --from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated --this Library of Congress exhibit displays photographs of the Russian empire taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudini-Gorskii between 1909-1912 and also in 1915.
The Gallery of the Open Frontier --thousands of public domain images of the American West from the National Archives, courtesy of the University of Nebraska Press
Historic American Buildings Survey/Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
History of Costume by Braun & Scheider --include many images; costumes from the ancient world to the 19th century
Images of England --this English Heritage site has over 300,000 images of 370,000 historic buildings
Incunabala --more than 6,000 woodcuts from the early modern period from the Bavarian State Library; the site is in German, but there is an English index to the book illustrations
Internet Archive Movie Collection --nearly 1,000 short movies about different aspects of life in America, created by industries, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, mostly during the 1940s and 1950s
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (1860-1899) --from Nagasaki University Library
Maryland Historical Society Digitized Photograph Collections --more than 2,000 online photographs
Mexico from Empire to Revolution --photographs from 1857 to 1923 from the Getty Research Institute
National Library of Australia Documentary Image Collection --more than 20,000 images of Australia
New Deal Network Library --photo collection from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
New Deal Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 --more than 900 posters from the American Memory Project
New Perspectives on the West --primary sources used in the PBS series, including images
Northeast Historic Film: Film and Videotape of Northern New England
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 --from the American Memory Project
Panoramic Photographs Collection --from the American Memory Project
Persepolis and Ancient Iran --photographs of archaeological sites from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
Picture Australia --images from cultural and historical institutions throughout Australia
Portrait Gallery --images from the Perry-Castaneda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies --from the American Memory Project
Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century --images from all over the nation from the collections of the New York Public Library
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network --more than 1 million images of Scottish material culture and history, funded by the Millennium Commission
Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1920 --from the American Memory Project
SouthEast Asian Images & Texts Project --from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920, Library of Congress, --from the American Memory Project
Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives --more than 8,000 images, from the University of Hawaii
TV News Archive --Vanderbilt University
United Nations Photos --some photographs of UN meetings and the UN at work
United States Holocaust Museum Research Collections Photographs --searchable online database
Western History Photograph Collection --more than 65,000 photographs from the Denver Public Library
World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection, 1894-1896 --from the American Memory Project
World War II Poster Collection --300 US government posters, from the collections of Northwestern University Library
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division --substantial portions of the wonderful Library of Congress pictorial collections, including and beyond LC image collections in the American Memory Project; see especially the "Prints & Photographs Online Catalog" and "Lists of Images on Popular Topics" (note: Onsite research is open to people above high school age)
Library of Congress Manuscripts --includes material not in the American Memory Project