HISTORICAL PICTURE COLLECTIONS
- Google Image Search and Yahoo Image Search
- Foto Stock Image Search Engine
- American Memory from Library of Congress - see list
- Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) from Library of Congress
- Library of Congress online Exhibits or see list
- Search from National Archives
- 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 and Charts and Maps
- USDA Historical Photos from Dept. of Agriculture
- White House includes photos
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
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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
- Virginia Tech Imagebase
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
- State 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
- NOAA Historical Charts and Maps includes Search
- 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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