HISTORICAL PICTURE COLLECTIONS
- Google Image Search
- PhotoGraphic Libraries
- American Memory from Library of Congress - see list
- Search from National Archives
- Library of Congress online Exhibits or see list
- National Archives onlineExhibits or list
- Smithsonian Institution online Exhibits from NMAH or list
- Smithsonian HistoryWired from NMAH
- U.S. Government Agencies exhibits:
- Portraiture in the U.S. Capitol
- Landscape Art in the U.S. Capitol
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
- Congress House Historian and Clerk
- GSA Fine Arts Form of WPA art in public buildings search
- NOAA Central Library Photo Collection
- USDA Historical Photos from Dept. of Agriculture
- White House public photos search
- Presidential Library exhibits:
- Herbert Hoover Library has Gallery
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Library has Photos and Audio
- Truman Library has The Berlin Airlift
- Eisenhower Library has Photos
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library has Reference Desk
- Lyndon B. Johnson Library has Photo and Audio archives
- Richard Nixon at Archives II
- Gerald R. Ford Library has Photos
- Jimmy Carter Library has Documents
- Ronald W. Reagan Library has Resources
- George Bush Library has Museum
- POTUS from Internet Public Library
- PRESIDENT from LIA at UNC
- Presidential Libraries from NARA
- States and Cities and Regions:
- Alaska Purchase Centennial Collection
- Alexandria Library Special Collections Online Exhibits
- Aramco PADIA photo archive in Newsroom has 30,000 images of Mideast and Saudi Arabia
- Atlanta Photographs1939-75 from Georgia State University's Special Collections Department
- Australia Picture Catalogue from The National Library of Australia
- Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
- Boston College digital collections
- British Library Portico server
- California Digital Library
- Chicago Daily News Photographs 1902-1933 at American Memory has 55,000 images
- Chicago History Society's History Files
- Chicago History from the Chicago Tribune Digital City
- Connecticut History Online
- Detroit History from Detroit News Rearview Mirror
- Duke University Digital Image Access Project
- England Building Survey
- Florida Photographic Collection has 80,000 images
-
Formosa: Nineteenth Century Images
- Indiana University Digital Library Program
- Los Angeles Historical images from USC
- Lousiana State University Digital Library
- Maine Memory Network
- Minnesota Historical Resources Database has 143,000 images
- New Jersey Environmental Digital Library
- New Orleans Historic Collection
- New York Daily News has 2.5 million images
- New York Public Library Digital Library Collections
- New York through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892 - 1942
- New Zealand Digital Library
- Ohio Memory Project has 20,000 images
- Philadelphia 1876 Centennial Exhibition from Free Library of Phil.
- Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library
- Pittsburgh Historic Images from Univ. of Pittsburgh and Western Penn. HS
- Rochester Images
- Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
- Virginia Civil War Images from Harper's Weekly
- Virginia Library Digital Collections
- Harpweek exhibits:
- American Political Prints: 1766-1876
- Presidential Elections: 1860 - 1884
- 19th Century Advertising History
- The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Immigrant and Ethnic America
- The World of Thomas Nast
- The American West
- Black America: 1857 - 1874
- Image Collections:
- Ad*Access and Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 from Duke Univ.
- American Political History Images from Teaching Politics
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls from the Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection at Stanford University Library
- Epact Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Famous American Trials
- Great Buildings Online from DesignWorkshop
- Hawaiian Newspapers, War Records, and Trust Territory Image Collections
- Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographsfrom the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia
- New Deal Network
- Nuclear Files Archive from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Phrenology on the Web from John van Wyhe of Cambridge University
- Pictures of the Year annual photojournalism contest
- Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition of 1914 from the American Museum of Natural History
- Solemates: The Century in Shoes from the Marketing Store
- Spanish Civil War 1935-39 Images
- SunSITE Library Site Search
- Time, Inc. Picture Collection
- UNESCO Photobank Online Image Database with 10,000 images from 1946
- United Nations Pictorial History 1945-1995
- Uncle Sam Image Gallery
- Women of the West Museum in Boulder, Colorado
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web from S. Diane Shaw at the Smithsonian Institution
- Multimedia index from Yahoo
- Photography History index from Yahoo
PICTURES BY TOPIC:
3D Models
- Virtual Archaeology links from Emuseum
- Virtual Worlds in Archaeology links
- Models of the Crystal Palace from the University of Virginia
- Great Buildings Online has DesignWorkshop models
- Turbo Squid collection of models
- London Bridge model from BBC
- Active Worlds web site
- Virtual Leonardo web site
- Perseus Digital Library from Tufts University
- UCLA Cultural VR Lab worked on Rome Reborn project
Animated Gifs
- animated gifs USD
Aviation and Aerospace
- AirForceLINK photos
- NASA-JSC Digital Image Collection and Historical Archive
- Aviation Image Archives
- Zeppelin Library Archive
- Zeppelin: The Home Page for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
Clip-art
- Clipart Directory
- Clip Art Connection
- Barry's Clip Art Server
- wuarchive directory of /graphics/gif
- WebHands Clipart for Netscape Gold users from Netscape/Specular
- Yahoo index for holiday clipart
Computers
- Historic Computer Images
- computer history index from Yahoo
Flags
- Flags of the World including U.S. historical flags
Java applets and script
- Developer.com directories
- Gamelan is the largest java resource web site
- JavaScript Index
- Danny Goodman's JavaScript Pages
Journals
- The Journal for MultiMedia History
Maps
- Map list
- Perry-Castenada Collection at U of Texas
- Alexandria Digital Library subject index from Davidson Library at UCSB
- Bodleian Library Map Room Links
- CIA World Factbook with maps
- Digital Atlas of California by Professor William Bowen
- Maps in the News from Borchert Library at U of Minnesota
- Mining Company Geography site from Matt T. Rosenberg
- National Geographic world maps
- NOAA satellite maps
- SSEC realtime satellite maps every 30 minutes
- Terraserver Aerial Photographs and Atlases
- Yahoo index for Historical Maps
- Civil War Maps from American Memory
- World War II maps from CMH at UT
- World War II Maps from World War II Timeline
- Korean War maps from CMH
Military
- EHAWK:mh:m_index.html
- Military Equipment Photo Gallery
- Spanish-American War images 1 and 2
- World War II Links
Movies and Radio
- Apple Quicktime Showcase
- America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 from Library of Congress
- British Public Records Office film archive includes clips from British Pathe Newsreel Archive
- Early Motion Pictures 1897-1916 from American Memory
- Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress
- Internet Archive includes MPEG-2 films from Prelinger Archive
- Multimedia Archive
- Radio history images
- Yahoo Video index
Music & Sounds
- MP3 digital music
- Sound index from Yahoo
- sound effects (alphabetically)
- quotes (alphabetically)
- Music in the Public Domain
- LBJ Dictabelt recordings history
- Music Graphics
Picture Collections
- Newspaper postcards
- Black Star Photo Agency
- Time Inc. Picture Collection
- Past Men of the Year from Time/Pathfinder
- Ansel Adams at UCI
- Hong Kong Picture Archive : HomePage
- PHOTONet Index
- Time.com photo essays
Poster Collections
- American Posters of World War One from the collection of Roger N. Mohovich
- Posters of the Spanish Civil War
- Soviet, Cuban, China Posters
- Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution from Ohio State University features materials
Railroads & Locomotives
- New CP GE's
- Picture Gallery - Directory: pix/trains
- Santa Fe Locomotive Drawings
- Swedish railways photos
- Norfolk and Western Historical Images
- Pacific Coast Chapter of R&LHS photos of Southern Pacific
- The History of the First Locomotives In America From Original Documents And The Testimony Of Living Witnesses (1871) by William H. Brown
- Union Pacific Railroad History
Science & Technology
- MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, St. Andrews University, Scotland - has hundreds of images and short biographies of scientists
- CalTech PhotoNet is a searchable archive of 3000 scanned photos, most of 20th century scientists, for example:
Ships
- Classic Steamers Postcard and Ephemera Collection of Jeff Newman
Space images
- Search NASA Image Exchange in theNASA Photo Gallery for all photos
- CORONA Spy Satellite Images 1960-1972 selections from FAS
- Earth and Moon Viewer has custom request settings
- Earth photos and SeaWiFs satellite photos from NASA
- NASA-JSC digital image collection search
- Terra Satellite images from NASA
Video clips
- Dancing Baby (1.5meg quicktime) 2
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