Photo Archive - Historic Image Collections

The collection of over 500,000 photographs taken during geologic studies of the United States and its territories from 1868 to the present.This collection emphasizes national parks, monuments, earthquakes, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens Volcano, & mining operations, Portraits Collection & Pioneer Photographers - [Read more]

The United Nations Educational Archives Portal. An international gateway to information for archivists and archives users - [Read more]

The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book of 1086 to government papers recently released to the public. Manuscripts include diverse sample images from Printed indulgence by Caxton, the earliest printed document, 1476 to Letter from Anne Boleyn, with her signature, April 1529. Colonial & Empire includes maps & documents : First American newspaper, published in Boston, 25 September 1690, One of 24 original printed copies of the Declaration of Independence, 4/5 July 1776, Authority for Henry VII to grant a letters patent to John Cabot for a voyage to discover new lands, 5 March 1496. Limited online images - [Read more]

United States Department of Defence : DefenseLink Image Collections. All of these files are in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. However, we request you credit the photographer/videographer as indicated or simply "Department of Defense." DoD has now made about 300,000 images available via the search. Please read the proposed policy on image/video use on the listed resources... - [Read more]

CBC Archives: Archived collection of radio and television clips from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation dating back more than sixty years - [Read more]

Take a trip through our collective past with the BBC archives and discover themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs. Explore who we are and see how attitudes have changed over the years through selections from an archive which began over 70 years ago - [Read more]

The Harry Ransom Collection includes: Photography - Film - Art - Performing Arts - Manuscripts - French & Italian - Books & Periodicals The cornerstone of the photography collection is the renowned Helmut and Alison Gernsheim collection, which is best known for its treasures of nineteenth-century photography, including the world's first photograph, a unique image created in 1826 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The Ransom Center film collection provides research opportunities for scholars working in history, music, popular culture, textual criticism, and film history and criticism. The collections include more than 10,000 scripts for film, television, and radio; more than 15,000 posters, lobby cards, and other advertising materials; and over a million photographs, including film stills, portrait and publicity photographs, set and location reference stills, makeup and wardrobe stills, and candid, behind-the-scenes photographs - [Read more]

Canadian McCord Museum collections contain the Notman Photographic Archives.Through its thousands of images ? landscapes, well-known people, families, places, events, activities ? these historically invaluable Archives provide a visual history of Montreal, Quebec and Canada from the 1840s to the present. As well as the iconographical data bank of some 1,250,000 photographs, Over 450,000 photographs (including 200,000 glass negatives), taken by the Notman studio during its 78 years of existence - [Read more]

For anyone with connections to 'The British Isles'. Search from over 350000 Photographs of some 7,000 towns and villages throughout the United Kingdom between 1860 and 1970 - [Read more]

George Eastman House. Dating from the invention to the present day. Photography, Motion Pictures & Technology. Still photography collection sbjects include ; American West Collections, Auto Racing ca 1910s, Civil War Collections, Fictional Photography, Lewis Hine - Empire State Building, Personages, Photomosaic of George Eastman, Sexist/Girlie, Racial Stereotypes ,Central Park, New York 1862, Circuses, Daguerreotypomania, "Degas Visual Environment" Dogs, India, Inventions, Jericho, Mexican Daguerreotypes, The Moon, New Guinea Stereo Views, New York City Stereo Views, Niagara Stereo Views, Nineteenth Century Balloons, People & Cameras, Selected Topographics, Sheep, Siam - [Read more]

Historic Films owns or represents over 45,000 hours of 1895-1990 Vintage Film Footage. The special collections libraries consist of all genres of motion picture films including Historical Newsreels including Pathe News & Television News, Musical Short Subjects in Comedy Film, Feature Films, Silent Films, Movie Slapstick, Classic Television Commercials and Shows, Beauty Shots, Nature and Wildlife, Home Movies, Outtakes, Industrial Films, Sales Films, and Cartoons. The specialized musical film collections cover American roots music, including the Roots of Blues, Country, Southern Gospel, American Folk Music and Rock and Roll. Good selection of Online Comp Reels - [Read more]

Images of Empire from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum is one of the largest dedicated online resource of still and moving images on the British colonial period. The digitised material is part of the museum's holding of over one million still images and 400 hours of film footage, dating from circa 1860 to the present day. Key themes include colonial life, indigenous cultures, political and royal events, wars and conflicts, notable personalities, ceremonial and sporting occasions.... - [Read more]

The Library of American Broadcasting holds a wide-ranging collection of photographs illustrating all aspects of radio and television broadcasting. These photographs also illustrate the technology of broadcasting: the microphones, turntables, antennas, transmitters, cameras, sound effects equipment and other tools necessary for sending a program over the airwaves. The primary photograph collections include; Images by Philadelphia broadcaster Jerry Lee, a collection of 8,000 photographs, Of particular note are 2,000 photographs documenting the pioneering radio quiz program Vox Pop (1932-1948). A collection of 20,000 publicity photographs originally published in the radio and television pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. A collection of approximately 250,000 photographs published in Broadcasting Magazine from 1931 to the present and collection of 485 photographs of radio personalities - [Read more]

EASE History is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History. Learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads - [Read more]

National Moving Image Archives World Resource. The gateway to the world's moving image archives and research centers - [Read more]

Picturing the Century : One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives," commemorates the end of the 20th century with a selection of photographs from the vast and varied holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). NARA photographs vividly capture the sweeping changes of the last one hundred years. They depict both the mundane and high political drama, society's failings as well as its triumphs, war's ugliness as well as its bravery. This exhibition is arranged in chronological "galleries" as well as seven "portfolios" of talented photographers well represented in NARA's holdings - [Read more]

The Photographs Collection consists of more than 220,000 original photographic images of which at least 130,000 are original negatives. They date from the 1840s to the present day - [Read more]

The Natural History Museum Picture Library hold a comprehensive and contemporary range of natural history images, including pictures of Animals, Wildlife, Dinosaurs, Fossils, Minerals, Early Man, Plants & Flowers, Skeletons, Skins, Specimens, Maps, Illustrations, Anthropology, Exstinct spieces, Rocks, Gemstones, Landscape photographs and microscopic views of the natural world - [Read more]

New York Public Library. The Photography Collection contains nearly 300,000 original photographic prints, from the medium's 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes. Highlights of the historical collection include: the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, the Spalding Baseball Collection, the Pageant of America Collection, major collections of work by Berenice Abbott and Lewis Hine, and the Romana Javitz Collection which features works by Alice Austen, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Minor White, among others. With its roots in the Library's nineteenth century origins, the photography collection holds important 19th-century topographical work by Maxime du Camp, Desire Charnay, Francis Frith, Edouard-Denis Baldus and John Thomson, plus important 19th-century photographers of the western United States, such as William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and Carleton E. Watkins - [Read more]

Selective Web version of bicoastal exhibit of 100+ pictures of the ruins of Nakasaki taken by Yosuke Yamahata on Aug. 10, 1945. Human memory has a tendency to slip, and critical judgment to fade, with the years and with changes in life-style and circumstance. But the camera, just as it seized the grim realties of that time, brings the stark facts...befor our eyes without the need for embellishment. Today, with the remarkable recovery made by both Nagasaki and Hiroshima it may be difficult to recall the past, but these photographs will continue to provide us with an unwavering testimony to the realities of that time (Yosuke Yamahata) - [Read more]