World History – General
A Clip Art History - Public Domain
images of the History of the World. Also Natural History and Fancy letters
suitable for school projects
Around
the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission
- Library of Congress Collection
From Old Books - Collection images
scanned from various old books that are now in the public domain. Searchable.
Used to be under http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
Old Book Illustrations - Images scanned from old books. States that
images on the site are the works of artists who "...have been dead for
over seventy years, which makes them part of the public domain in many
countries." Searchable by keywords.
"The Secret Museum of
Mankind" - collection of anthropological photographs published in a
1935 book without copyright. Scanned and released under a CC-NC license, but images
should be public domain, at least in the US, since they are faithful
reproductions of PD images. (Warning: strong 1930's racist P. O. V.)
World History – World War I
World History – World War I
The Heritage of the Great War
has several colour pictures from World War I (likely all PD, since the effort
taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative
work).
Photos of the Great War
many images of World War I, scanned in from public domain resources.
Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires
attribution and link, as does GFDL, requests e-mail notice of usage).
World's
Armed Forces Forum (gallery for images taken from the French Ministry of Culture's website)
hosts more colour images of World
War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably
fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
British History (United Kingdom) - General
British History (United Kingdom) - General
Newgate Prison Calendar
- Images from The Newgate Calendar. Mostly crimes and
criminals from the 18th century. Also other works at http://www.exclassics.com
Punch Magazine John Leech Archive
- John Leech sketch archives 1841 until 1864 from Punch magazine The page
states they are long out of copyright and that they are believed to be public
domain.
United States History – General
United States History – General
America As It Was - a huge
resource for vintage postcards in the US, organized by state. Any postcard
first published in the US before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is
PD. Lots of photos, aerial views, and maps of many US locations.
America's First Look into
the Camera: Daguerreotypes - Library of Congress Collection
American Memory - Library
of Congress American Memory site (Check copyright information for the separate
items before deciding to use them!)
American
Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera - Library
of Congress Collection
Cities
and Towns – U.S. Library of Congress Collection
Military
Battles and Campaigns – U.S. Library of Congress Collection
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- New York Public Library. Over 700,000 images scanned from books. Including illuminated
manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs,
illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. There is a per-image usage fee
even for public domain images.
September
11 Documentary Project - Library of Congress Collection
U.S. History Images - Public domain
images from United States history.
William
P. Gottlieb Collection – U.S. Library of Congress
Yale University - Beinecke Library
Archive - Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's
online collection of digital images. Most will be {PD-art}. 90,000 images from
rare books and manuscripts, search by keyword.
United States History – 1492 Discovery, Exploration and Maps
United States History – 1492 Discovery, Exploration and Maps
Puerto
Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century
Perspectives
– Library of Congress
– Library of Congress
Rochambeau
Map Collection – Library of Congress
Washington
As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak – Library of Congress
Westward by Sea: A Maritime
Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 from Mystic Seaport – Library of
Congress
United States History – New England Settlers Experience
United States History – New England Settlers Experience
Early Virginia
Religious Petitions – Library of Congress
The
Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region,
1600-1925 – Library of Congress
United States History – American Revolution
United States History – American Revolution
American
Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies,
1750-1789 – Library of Congress
Documents
from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 – Library of Congress
The
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 – Library of Congress
United States History – Portraits of the Presidents
United States History – Portraits of the Presidents
By Popular Demand:
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies – Library of Congress
United States History – Native American Experience
United States History – Native American Experience
American Indians of the Pacific
Northwest – Library of Congress
Edward S. Curtis's The North
American Indian: Photographic Images – Library of Congress
North American Indian
Photographs – Library of Congress
The African-American Experience in
Ohio, 1850-1920 – Library of Congress
African-American
Sheet Music – Library of Congress
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 –
Library of Congress
The Church in the Southern
Black Community: Beginnings to 1920 – Library of Congress
Frederick
Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress – Library of Congress
Maps
of Liberia, 1830-1870 – Library of Congress
Slaves
and the Courts, 1740-1860 – Library of Congress
United States History – The Wild, Wild West and Pioneer Days
United States History – The Wild, Wild West and Pioneer Days
The
James Madison Papers, 1723-1836 –
Library of Congress
History of the
American West – Library of Congress
Pioneer Trails: Overland to Utah and
the Pacific, 1847-1869 – Library of Congress
Pioneering
the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 – Library of Congress
The
Northern Great Plains: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak
Photograph Collections (Hultstrand Collection) – Library of Congress
The
Northern Great Plains: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak
Photograph Collections (Pazandak Collection) – Library of Congress
The
Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana – Library of Congress
Band
Music from the Civil War Era –
Library of Congress
Civil
War Maps – Library of Congress
Civil War Photographs – Library of Congress
Civil
War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds
Papers – Library of Congress
Civil
War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society – Library of Congress
Washington
During the Civil War: the Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 – Library of Congress
First Person Narratives of the American
South, 1860-1920 – Library of
Congress
Reclaiming
the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934 – Library of Congress
Southern
Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip – Library of Congress
The
South Texas Border: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection – Library of Congress
Tending
the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia – Library of Congress
United States History – 19th Century Pop Culture
United States History – 19th Century Pop Culture
America
Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
– Library of Congress Collection
Creative Americans:
Portraits by Carl Van Vechten –
Library of Congress
Hispano
Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection – Library of Congress
Historic American Sheet
Music – Library of Congress
Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 – Library of Congress
Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 – Library of Congress
The Nineteenth Century in
Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals (Cornell University) – Library of Congress
The Nineteenth Century in Print: the
Making of America in Books and Periodicals (University of Michigan) – Library of Congress
Poet
at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman
Collection – Library of Congress
Quilts
and Quiltmaking in America, 1778-1996
– Library of Congress
Shaping the Values of
Youth: A Nineteenth Century American Sunday School Book Collection – Library of Congress
United States History – The Spanish-American War
United States History – The Spanish-American War
The
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
– Library of Congress
United States History – Inventors and Inventions
United States History – Inventors and Inventions
Samuel
F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919 – Library of Congress
Inventing
Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison
Companies – Library of Congress
Wilbur
and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress – Library of Congress
United States History – Industrial Revolution and Labor Movement
United States History – Industrial Revolution and Labor Movement
Child Labor in
America 1908 – 1912 - Child Labor in America 1908 - 1912 by Lewis
W. Hine – Library of Congress
Haymarket Affair: Chicago
Anarchists on Trial – Library of
Congress
Inside
an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 – Library of Congress
Working
in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting – Library of Congress
United States History – Women’s Suffrage Movement
United States History – Women’s Suffrage Movement
By Popular Demand: Votes
for Women’s Suffrage Pictures –
Library of Congress
Women
of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party – Library of Congress
Zora
Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress – Library of Congress
United States History – Early History of Film
United States History – Early History of Film
America
at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 - Library of
Congress Collection
Origins
of American Animation – Library of
Congress
Before
and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco,
1897-1916 – Library of Congress
The
Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 – Library of Congress
Last
Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 – Library of Congress
Theodore
Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
– Library of Congress
United States History – 20th Century Pop Culture
United States History – 20th Century Pop Culture
Baseball
Cards – Library of Congress
By
Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s – Library of Congress
Spalding
Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 –
Library of Congress
Buckaroos
in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 – Library of Congress
Creative Americans:
Portraits by Carl Van Vechten –
Library of Congress
Traveling Culture: Circuit
Chautauqua – Library of Congress
United States History – News photos, Panoramas and Stereoscopes
United States History – News photos, Panoramas and Stereoscopes
Photographs
from the Chicago Daily News –
Library of Congress
Small Town America: Stereoscopic
Views from the Dennis Collection –
Library of Congress
Taking
the Long View: Panoramic Photographs
– Library of Congress
Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company – Library of Congress
United States History – World War I
United States History – World War I
Newspaper
Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 – Library of Congress
Stars
and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 – Library of Congress
United States History – Great Depression 1929 - 1940
United States History – Great Depression 1929 - 1940
American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 – Library of Congress
By the People, For the
People—Works Projects Administration Posters, 1935-43 – Library of Congress
Documenting America:
Photographs From the Great Depression to World War II, FSA-OWI (black and
white) – Library of Congress
Documenting America:
Photographs From the Great Depression to World War II, FSA-OWI (color) –
Library of Congress
Florida
Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937 to 1942 – Library of Congress
Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Thousands of on-line,
copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Great
Depression and the New Deal, and World War II.
Voices
from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker
Collection – Library of Congress
Woody
Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 – Library of Congress
United States History – World War II
United States History – World War II
Ansel
Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar – Library of Congress
Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Thousands of on-line,
copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Great
Depression and the New Deal, and World War II.
World War II
Poster Collection over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies – Library of Congress
World
War II Military Situation Maps –
Library of Congress
