Photo Archive / Historic Image Collections

Library of Congress. American Memory is a gateway to primary source material of more than 7million digital items from over 100 collections related to the history and culture of The United States. Links, Databases & Resources focus on history and cultures around the world. Category subjects include ; Advertising, African American History, Architecture, Landscape, Cities, Towns, Culture, Folklife, Environment, Conservation, Government, Law, Immigration, American Expansion, Literature, Maps, Native American History, Performing Arts, Music, Presidents, Religion, Sports, Recreation, Technology, Industry, War, Military & Women's History - [Read more]

Emilio Segre Archives. A collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials, the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives is part of the Niels Bohr Library of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times - [Read more]

The Archives Center holds significant collections that consist largely of photographs. Most notable are the Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, 1895-1921 (28,000 images); the Donald H. Sultner-Welles Collection, 1951-1980 (87,000 color transparencies taken around the world); and the Arthur d'Arazien Industrial Photographs, ca. 1939-1984, consisting of thousands of black and white and color photographs by a leading industrial and advertising photographer. Other photographic collections document specialized scientific or cultural fields, such as the Hazen Collection of Band Photographs and Ephemera, ca. 1818-1931. Many of the manuscript and advertising collections include photographs as well.The Archives Center acquires photographs whose subject content relates to the various curatorial fields of the Museum. By contrast, the Museum's Division of Photographic History collects photographs directly related to the aesthetic, technical, and scientific history of photography - [Read more]

The National Archives of The United States. 14 million still pictures, 9 million arial photographs, maps, charts, and a comprehensive collection of Moving Images. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent Federal agency that preserves the nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all Federal records - [Read more]

The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection of more than 15,000 works is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japan. The cornerstones of the Metropolitan's department are four important collections: The Rubel Collection, with superb examples of British photography from the first three decades of the medium's history; The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, with masterpieces of the Photo-Secession movement (1902?17) and related Pictorialist photography; The Ford Motor Company Collection of American and European photography between the World Wars; and the personal archive of the American photographer Walker Evans (1903?1975). - [Read more]

The Nobel Prize : Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. (use search box e.g. type = photo for image collection) - [Read more]

Hosts user-generated videos. Includes network and professional content. More and more archive footage is seeing its way onto YouTube. The BBC has recently added clips from interviews conducted by British chat show legend Michael Parkinson, with interviewees ranging from Dolly Parton to Ewan McGregor, and from Gillian Anderson to Mel Gibson. Buckingham Palace has created its own Royal Channel, featuring archive footage, including the first Sovereign's Christmas message, filmed fifty years ago, a version of the Queen Mothers' wedding in 1928 from the Topical Budget newsreel, film of Queen Alexandra in 1917 from the British Film Institute and 2006 features about Buckingham Palace from the Press Association - [Read more]

The mission of the Computer History Museum is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age: Archived Still Images, Video and Oral History - [Read more]

Library of Congress Prints & Photographic Division Online Catalogue. Contains digital images representing a rich cross section of stills from other units of the library collections - [Read more]

University of Washington Libraries. The Special Collections include ; The Cities & Buildings Database - Contains nearly 10,000 digitized images of architecture, buildings and cities drawn from across time & throughout the world / 19th Century Actors Photographs / Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection / Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Photographs / American Indians of the Pacific Northwest / Albert H. Barnes Photographs / William F. Boyd Photograph Album / Boyd and Braas Photographs / Centralia Massacre Collection / Robert Henry Chandless Photographs / Civil War Letters Collection / Fashion Plate Collection / Eric A. Hegg Photographs / Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 / Frank La Roche Photographs / Frank La Roche Photographs / Seattle Photographs /.......... - [Read more]

Architecture.com is one of the world's most extensive built environment portals.The RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) covers architecture worldwide and provides a rich resource for researchers, the media and the public. The Drawings Collection celebrates the achievements of British and European architects from the Renaissance to the present day. Limited online access to the collections - [Read more]

Australian National Archives Photographic Collections. Spanning almost 200 years, the collection is a rich resource for the study of Australian history, society and people. Most records in the collection are files. But there are also significant holdings of photographs, posters, maps, architectural drawings, films, playscripts, musical scores and sound recordings - [Read more]

A core component of the California Digital Library, the Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. The OAC is available to a broad spectrum of users -students, teachers, and researchers of all levels. Through the OAC, all have access to information previously available only to scholars who traveled to collection sites - [Read more]

UCR/California Museum of Photography maintains the world's largest collection of original stereoscopic prints and negatives. The Keystone-Mast Collection represents the archive of the Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA (active from 1892-1963). Its 350,000 items, of which 33,637 records can be searched online including collection by artist such as Ansel Adams, Will Connell and the Bingham Technology Collection, manufactures such as Kodak, ICA, Imperial, Tru-vue and many others. - [Read more]

J Paul Getty Museum ; The department of photographs collection focuses on the artistic achievements of individual photographers such as William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Ray, Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron, Carlton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evens, Alfred Sander, Man Ray and Alvarez Bravo. Photojournalism & Social Documentary Photography. Past Exhibitions feature various image collections - [Read more]

The Collections & Guide to Worldwide Ethnographic Archives & Anthropological Resources. The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology ? ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology ? and include manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars - [Read more]

Smithsonian Images. Browse or search through selected images from the Collections of the Office of Imaging and Photographic Services. Included are images from current exhibits, Smithsonian events and comprehensive historic collections - [Read more]

This site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled - [Read more]

The Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive is a huge resource of more than 8 million photographs. The online database currently summarises most of these images in groups. To assist researchers, many popular photographs are also catalogued individually and accompanied by thumbnail images. Database searches will display details of individual photographs followed by records of relevant groups. Online subjects include ; War on Land, War at Sea, War in the Air, War & Peace, Prisoners, Civilians, Commonwealth, Truth & Propaganda, Burial & Remembrance - [Read more]

Photographs consist of more than 500,000 prints and negatives that document New York City and its inhabitants from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Some of New York's earliest photographic views are represented in the waxed-paper negatives of Victor Prevost, and the proliferation of the medium is exemplified by the Byron Collection of more than 22,000 images chronicling New York life from 1892 through 1942. The well-known Jacob Riis collection reveals the Lower East Side's poverty and squalor in the late nineteenth century. Berenice Abbott's stunning Changing New York, a WPA photographic project, documents New York City in the 1930s - [Read more]