Thursday, November 3, 2016

Library Digital Image Collections

THE BRITISH LIBRARY

Who they are and what they offer


"The British Library holds over 150 million items including the King's Library, manuscripts, rare books, musical texts, maps,illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs spanning almost 3000 years. In all known languages and formats, from every era of written human history beginning with rare Chinese oracle bones dating from 300 BC, right up to today's newspapers."

 HOME PAGE HERE

The Bad News: Most of the images owned by the British Library are not public and they are not free. They are for sale through the British Library Images Online Search Engine. See below.



 The Good News: More than a million images, taken mostly from illustrations in 17th, 18th and 19th Century books, have been released into the public domain, as announced on the British Library blog.  They are releasing new images to the public domain every day.  For news about new releases, see their blogs overview page here.

 The ONLINE GALLERY gives an overview of 30,000 popular items amongst their collections. Each collection has its own webpage.  See for example

 THE EVANION COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN EPHEMERA PAGE

Here is a short list of their collections:

ASIA, PACIFIC AND AFRICA COLLECTIONS


BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR


EARLY PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS


EVANION COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA


FINE ART PRINTS FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY'S ARCHIVES


GRACE COLLECTION OF MAPS OF LONDON


LITERARY LANDSCAPES


MAPS OF THE UK


 MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS


PHILATELIC RARITIES


 VICTORIAN POPULAR MUSIC


VIRTUAL BOOKS
Metadata about the images and the books from which they come is also available for download on Github.

 Hundreds of favorite public domain images have been grouped by users into some popular albums on Flickr.  See the 

 British Library Flickr Page 

 Flickr Albums:
Advertisements (171 images)

 Architecture (1,995 images)

 Bicycles and Cycling (148 images)

 Book Covers (879 images)

 Castles (95 images)

 Children's Book Illustrations (1,005 images)

 Christmas and Winter Scenes (220 images)

 Comic Art and Cartoons (484 images)

 Dancing and Dance Illustrations (131 images)

 Decoration (1,688 images)

 Decorative Papers (83 images)

 Diagrams, Plots and Charts (697 images)

 Fashion and Costumes  (391 images)

 Fauna and Animal Illustrations (2,228 images)

 Flora and Flower Illustrations (860)

 Ghost and Ghoulish Scenes (1,050 images)

 Heraldry (1,229 images)

 Highlights (98 images)

 Illustrated Letters and Typography (1,505 images)

 Maps (3,026 random images)

 Maps found in 2014 (12,901 images)

 Miscellaneous "Images Online" (430 images)

 Musical Instruments (103 images)
  Portraits (4,581 images)

 Sheet Music (616 images)

 Ships (280 images)

 Space and Science Fiction Illustrations (412 images)

 Technology (195 images)

 Valentines Day and Romantic Illustrations (169 images)

 World War I: Canadian Experience (324 images)

 World War I: Indian Army (355 images)




EUROPEANA

Europeana -  the European digital library, "provides access to 48 million digital items emblematic of the European heritage.  Initiated in 2005 by the French president and five other heads of state and European governments, Europeana is the European digital heritage portal. It provides access to more than 53 million digitized items from 3 300 institutions (libraries, archives, museums and audiovisual collections). All of the BnF digitized collections can be found on the pages of Europeana, as well as the collections of the Institut national de l'Audiovisuel, the British Library in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Louvre, along with those of institutions representing Europe's cultural heritage as a whole. Together, these collections allow you to explore the history of Europe from Antiquity to the present day."

 For more info

GALLICA 

Gallica - The Digital Collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF), is "one of the major digital libraries available for free via the Internet. It provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, maps and plans."

 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DIGITAL COLLECTION


  U.S. Library of Congress digital image archive
(Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)

INDEX TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DIGITAL IMAGE ARCHIVE

Library of Congress digital image archive
(Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)

To search all Library collections (including American Memory) please visit loc.gov/search, or browse the full array of digitized collections at loc.gov/collections. You can also use the links below to go to the new presentations for single collections.
    The Aaron Copland Collection

    The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

    African-American Sheet Music

    Alexander Graham Bell Papers

    The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana

    America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915

    America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets

    American Colony in Jerusalem

    American English Dialect Recordings from The Center for Applied Linguistics

    American Environmental Photographs

    American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

    American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design

    American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

    American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789

    American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera

    America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotypes

    An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490 to 1920

    Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

    Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner

    Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission

    Band Music from the Civil War Era

    Baseball Cards

    Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

    Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

    Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982

    Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record

    By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s

    By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies

    By Popular Demand: Votes for Women’s Suffrage Pictures

    By the People, For the People—Works Projects Administration Posters, 1935-43

    The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925

    Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal

    Chinese in California, 1850-1920

    The Church in the Southern Black Community: Beginnings to 1920

    Cities and Towns

    Civil War Maps

    Civil War Photographs

    Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers

    Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society

    Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten
    Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection

    Discovery and Exploration

    Documenting America: Photographs From the Great Depression to World War II, FSA-OWI (black and white)

    Documenting America: Photographs From the Great Depression to World War II, FSA-OWI (color)

    Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

    Early Virginia Religious Petitions

    Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images

    Emergence of Advertising in America

    Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier - The Henry Reed Collection

    Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress

    First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

    Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937 to 1942

    Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

    Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress

    Freedom's Fortress: the Library of Congress, 1939-1953

    General Maps

    Haymarket Affair: Chicago Anarchists on Trial

    Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection

    Historic American Sheet Music

    History of the American West

    Hotchkiss Map Collection

    Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

    Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

    The Irving Fine Collection

    The James Madison Papers, 1723-1836

    Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901

    Leonard Bernstein

    The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

    Louisiana: European Explorations and Louisiana Purchase

    Mapping the National Parks

    Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870

    Military Battles and Campaigns

    Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 

    Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885

    Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919

    The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals (Cornell University)

    The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals (University of Michigan)

    North American Indian Photographs

    The Northern Great Plains: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections (Hultstrand Collection)

    The Northern Great Plains: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections (Pazandak Collection)

    Omaha Indian Music

    Origins of American Animation

    Panoramic Maps

    Photographs from the Chicago Daily News

    Pioneer Trails: Overland to Utah and the Pacific, 1847-1869

    Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

    Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection

    Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives

    Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996

    Railroad Maps, 1828-1900

    Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934

    Rochambeau Map Collection

    Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919

    September 11 Documentary Project

    Shaping the Values of Youth: A Nineteenth Century American Sunday School Book Collection

    Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860

    Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection

    Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

    The South Texas Border: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection

    Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939

    The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

    Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919

    Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs

    Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia

    Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

    The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827

    Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company

    Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua

    Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection

    Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak

    Washington During the Civil War: the Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865

    Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 from Mystic Seaport

    Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress

    William P. Gottlieb Collection

    Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

    Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950

    Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting

    World War II Military Situation Maps



    NATIONAL ARCHIVES (NARA) DIGITAL PHOTO LINKS

    Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)
    Includes many collections of photos from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.  

    NOTE: These are NOT all public domain images.  While government photographs (made with tax dollars) are public property, these links take you to many collections with images made by private photographers after 1926.  You are on your own to determine if an image meets copyright-free status.

    Contents:

    NARA Resources

    Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation during World War II
    A collection of NARA documents and photographs relating to the internment of Japanese in the United States. A lesson plan for educators that provides a correlation between the Great Depression and American attitudes toward the Japanese is included.
     
     
    "DOCUMERICA: Snapshots of Crisis and Cure in the 1970s"
    Prologue article by C. Jerry Simmons discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) photodocumentary project to record changes in the American environment. The result is a collection of more than 20,000 photographs.
     
     
    "From Pearl Harbor to Elvis: Images That Endure"
    Prologue article by Ellen Fried describes some of the most requested photos from NARA's holdings.
     
     
    "From Sophie's Alley to the White House: Rediscovering the Visions of Pioneering Black Government Photographers"
    Nicholas Natanson's Prologue article about the success and obstacles encountered by black federal photographers.
     
     
    Panoramic: Photographs from the National Archives
    A small sample of the panoramic photographs held in the Still Pictures collection of the National Archives. The photographs date from 1864-1937 and contain size description, place of origin, photographer name, and original captions.
     
     
    Photographs and Graphic Works in the National Archives at College Park, MD
    The web page of the Still Pictures branch of the National Archives describes the unit's holdings. It also provides links to digital photo collections.

     
     
    Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
    A digital retrospective of the best of the National Archives still photography collections. The photographs in this online exhibit represent seminal events and everyday life in America throughout the 20th century.
     
     
    Portrait of Black Chicago
    John H. White’s photo documentary for the Environmental Protection Agency on conditions in Chicago during the mid-1970’s. This photo collection focuses specifically on the triumphs and tribulations of African-Americans at that time. Presented by the National Archives.
     
     
    "Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project"
    Bruce Bustard describes the DOCUMERICA project and what it revealed about America during the 1970s in this Prologue article.
     
     
    U.S. National Archives Flickr Page
    NARA has posted 206 sets of photographs to Flickr.
     
     
    War Relocation Authority and the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II
    "This collection focuses on The War Relocation Authority and The Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II. It includes 14 photographs." From the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library.
     
     
    What Do You Want to Preserve?
    This NARA page includes photograph preservation information, including how to store photos, digitize photos, handle negatives, and more.

     

    Digital Photograph Collections

    General

     Cased Photographs Project
    The Cased Photographs Project provides access to rare California pictorial documents dating from the California Gold Rush. The photographs are from the collections of the Bancroft Library and the California State Library.
     
     
    Chronological List of Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents of the United States
    This Library of Congress site contains links to at least one likeness of each of the presidents and vice presidents, and most of the first ladies.
     
     
    Denver Public Library's Western History/Genealogy Department Photographs
    "Subjects include Native Americans, pioneers, railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and the 10th Mountain Division ski troops."
     
     
    Indiana Historical Society Digital Image Collections
    There are more than 50,000 digital images available on this website, divided into categories such as African-American Indiana History, Lincoln, Military History, and more.
     
     
    Library of Virginia's Online Photo Collections
    Portal to the Library of Virginia's digital image collections, including 1939 World's Fair Photograph Collection, School Buildings Service Photographs, Virginia Chamber of Commerce Photograph Collection and more.
     
     
    LIFE Photo Archive
    Collaboration between LIFE and Google has resulted in this database of millions of photographs dating from the 1860s. Researchers can search the database, or browse by time or subject.
     
     
    The NYPL Picture Collection Online
    The Picture Collection Online, from the New York Public Library, is an image resource site composed of 30,000 digitized images focusing on New York City, costume, design, American history and other subjects.
     
     
    "The Pageant of America" Photograph Archive
    "Several thousand original and copy photographs; albumen, platinum and silver gelatin prints; 1860s-1920s. The photographs are presented in original archival order: two series, 'published' and 'unpublished' photographs, exist for each of the fifteen volumes published in the 15-volume series The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States commemorating the nation's sesquicentennial in 1926."
     
     
    Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes
    The University of Oregon houses the photographs of Major Lee Moorhouse. From 1888 to 1916 he produced over 9,000 images which depict Native American life in the Columbia Basin, and particularly Umatilla County, Oregon. This site offers about two hundred and fifty pictures of the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla tribes.
     
     
    Prints & Photographs Reading Room (Library of Congress)
    Access to the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division’s resources are facilitated through the use of guides, reference aids, and finding aids that summarize holdings and provide  lists of images on popularly requested topics. Some offerings include digital images.
     
     
    Seattle Photographs
    Database of photographs depicting Seattle’s neighborhoods. Subjects include recreation and entertainment, businesses, stores and restaurants, residential street scenes, and transportation. Maintained by the University of Washington Libraries.
     
     
    U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library
    This site contains over 30,000 digitized photographs from the USGS collection of over 400,000 photographs taken from 1868 to the present. The database can be searched or browsed in a number of categories such as Earthquakes and Pioneer Photographers.
     
     
    U.S. Park Service Photo Galleries
    Links to photo galleries on the web sites of U.S. Park Service parks, historic sites, monuments, preserves, etc. Some sites include multimedia presentations, virtual tours, and webcams.
     
     
    U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
    "A sample of the photographs, images, albums, and more, relating to the U.S. West held by SMU's DeGolyer Library."
     
     
    "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920
    This collection by the Library of Congress includes portraits of important suffragettes and pictures of picketing, parades, and anti-suffrage displays. Cartoons of suffrage issues are also included.

     

    19th Century Photography Collections

     
    The African-American Experience in Ohio
    "This digital collection illuminates specific moments in the history of Ohio's African-Americans and provides an overview of their experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them."
     
     
    American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection
    This site from the University Libraries of the University of Washington provides digital databases, including over 2,300 original photographs.
     
     
    Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
    The Library of Congress hosts this multi-media collection of posters, photographs, and written materials drawn from the archival collections of the New York Historical Society. The materials depict the origin and impact of the Civil War.
     
     
    Clarence King Surveys
    This George Eastman House site features 133 images, taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, of the Clarence King Survey of the American West.
     
     
    Cowboy Photographer: Erwin E. Smith
    Fearing the true lifestyle of the cowboy would be lost, Erwin Smith resolved to honor this tradition by presenting as realistic a portrayal as possible. His photographs, showing both the romance and hardship of cowboy life, are some of the best-known images of the southwestern range early in the last century. From the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
     
     
    Detroit Publishing Company: Photographer to the World
    The Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world between 1895 and 1924. Many of the company’s materials were acquired by Henry Ford in 1937, and the Henry Ford Museum holds 30,000 vintage photographic prints, 15,000 postcards, and 5,000  color and sepia lithographic prints. There are over 250 prints, photographs, postcards and documents relating to Detroit Publishing Company in this online exhibit.
     
     
    Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts
    This web site, created by the Massachusetts Historical Society, offers 840 digital images of visual materials that illustrate the role of Massachusetts in the national debate over slavery. Included are photographs, paintings, sculptures, engravings, artifacts, banners, and broadsides that were central to the debate and the formation of the antislavery movement.
     
     
    Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs
    This collection from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division contains nearly 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs of both Union and Confederate soldiers. "Among the rarest images are African Americans in uniform, sailors, a Lincoln campaign button, and portraits of soldiers with their wives and children."
     
    LOUISiana Digital Library Photograph Collection

    There are nineteen libraries, archives, museums, and historical centers contributing to this digitial collection. These historical photographs date from mid-1800 to the early 1900’s and were taken by many of the well known photographers of the day. The database is browsable and searchable. Researchers can also gain access to materials in other media formats, such as maps, posters, and paintings.
     
     
    Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection
    This web site contains 12,000 stereoscopic views of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut small towns taken between 1850-1910. Stereoscopic views are the earliest version of 3-D imagery.
     
     
    Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion: 1820-1890.
    A multimedia collection of materials gathered by Mystic Seaport and presented by the Library of Congress. This web site’s materials illustrate the conditions under which women and men from the East Coast of the United States migrated to California, Hawaii, Alaska, Texas, Oregon and Washington by sea. Such themes as whaling, life at sea, shipping, women at sea are explored.
     
     
    Wisconsin Historical Images
    In addition to regional materials, the Wisconsin Historical Society also holds images of national importance, such as nineteenth century expeditionary photography, Native American images, mass communications, and social action movements, including labor and civil rights.
     
     
    World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection
    The Library of Congress collection of nearly 900 images of transportation modes of North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania were taken by William Henry Jackson during the 1890's.

     

    20th Century Photography Collections

     
    Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
    There are more than 1200 photographs from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held on the campus of the University of Washington during the summer of 1909. Images include depictions of the buildings, grounds, entertainment, and exotic attractions at the fair. The site can be searched or browsed.
     
     
    America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI Collection 1935-1945
    There are 160,000 black and white and 1,600 color photographs taken by government photographers with the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information on this site. The images show Americans from every part of the nation struggling against the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, and later, mobilizing for World War II.
     
     
    American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936
    4,500 photographs depicting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century compiled by the University of Chicago Library. They were taken by by faculty, staff, and students in the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago from the 1890s to the 1930s. This collection provides a historical record, and can be used as a benchmark to document environmental changes.
     
     
    Ansel Adams’ Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
    In a departure from his famous landscape photographs, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. Along with many portraits, Adams’ photos show daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities. From the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.
     
     
    click! photography changes everything
    This site from the Smithsonian Institution "is a collection of original essays, stories and images contributed by experts from a spectrum of professional worlds and members of the project's online audience that explore the many ways photography shapes our culture and our lives."
     
     
    Deena Stryker Photographs
    The photographs on this site were taken by Deena Stryker in Cuba between July 1963 and July 1964. Part of Duke University Libraries Digital Collections.
     
     
    Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection
    Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was born and educated in New York City, but is known for her photographs depicting the rural people of the South, particularly the mountain people of Appalachia and the Gullahs of the Sea Islands. Her primary interest was portraiture. Several years after her death in 1934, the University of Oregon took custody of her photographs, proofs, and glass-plate negatives. This site provides access to 1800 of approximately 12,000 images.
     
     
    Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian
    "Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930 with the intent to record traditional Indian cultures. The work comprises twenty volumes of narrative text and photogravure images. Each volume is accompanied by a portfolio of large photogravure plates." Presented by Northwestern University Digital Library Collections.
     
     
    Maynard L. Parker Modern Photography
    Maynard L. Parker was a Los Angeles-based architectural and garden photographer. The site includes a searchable database and a selection of Parker’s work.
     
     
    A More Perfect Union
    This moving Smithsonian web site provides personal narrative, music, timelines, and photographs of the Japanese relocation during World War II.
     
     
    National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection
    This site provides access to 1,975 digitized images of Park architecture, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Native American heritage, NPS personnel, roads and transportation, scenic views, and much more.
     
     
    New Deal Network
    Among the many resources available on this site are the New Deal Photo Library, a photo-documentary of the impact of the Great Depression and New Deal on Carbon Hill, Alabama, and Rondal Partridge’s "California Youth" Gallery.
     
     
    Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
    This American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress consists of over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News. Images include Chicagoans, politicians, actors, prominent people who visited Chicago, athletes, sports teams, special events, and the news office itself.
     
     
    The South Texas Border: 1900-1920
    The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area numbers over 8,000 images of the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900’s. Includes photographs of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Ft. Brown and the growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley. Presesnted by the University of Texas at Austin in cooperation with the Library of Congress.
     
     
    Van Vechten Collection
    Carl Van Vechten’s photograph collection at the Library of Congress consists mostly of portraits of celebrities, including many from the Harlem Renaissance.
     
     
    War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona
    This University of Arizona photo documentary is also accompanied by brief explanations of the rationale behind the relocation effort, as well as reproductions of governmental decrees that set the effort to relocate Japanese Americans in motion. The site also links to numerous points of interest and suggestions for further study.
     
     
    War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
    The Online Archive of California maintains this collection. 6,834 photographs are digitized and available online.
     
     
    WPA Photograph Collection: Louisiana Division
    Photographs documenting the work done in Louisiana by the Works Progress Administration. Includes projects ranging from "street paving and bridge building to bookbinding and adult education".

     

    21st Century Photography Collections

     
    The Commons on Flickr
    This web site aims to make publicly held photographs and photography collections accessible to a wide audience. Visitors are encouraged to participate in the project by adding tags to photos and by commenting on them. Participating institutions include the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the State Library of New South Wales, the Brooklyn Museum, and more.
     
     
    NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
    NIX is a web-based search engine for searching one or more of NASA’s online multimedia collections consisting of photos, images, movies, videos, and audio. The database can also be browsed by several categories, such as aircraft, education, projects, and space flights.
     
     
    NASA Image Galleries
    This web site provides public access to images, video, and audio created by NASA.

     

    History of Photography

     
    The Daguerreian Society
    This historical society has created a site that offers a brief history of the daguerreotype, an extensive daguerreian bibliography, an illustrated description of the process, a look into a daguerreian materials manufactory, and many 19th and early 20th century texts. The image database contains more than 1,000 daguerreotypes that depict everything from portraits to postmortem images.
     
     
    The First Photograph
    An online exhibit from the Harry Ranson Center of the University of Texas provides information about the first permanent photograph from nature taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827.
     
     
    History of Photography Archive
    "The History of Photography Archive is a privately owned collection of original 19th and 20th century photographs and related artifacts that traces the technical and artistic development of photography from its origins in England and France in the early 19th century up through worldwide use in the mid-20th century."
     
     
    A History of Photography: From Its Beginnings until the 1920’s
    This site provides an overview of the origins of photography including histories of significant people, significant photographic processes, and a bibliography.
     
     
    Midley History of Early Photography
    This web site presents academic research articles on the early history of photography published by R. D. Wood between 1970 and 1997. These articles contain information on the early history of photography, the daguerreotype and the diorama.
     
     
    A Primer on Processes
    The American Museum of Photography defines early photographic processes alphabetically.

     

    Preservation and Care of Photographs

     
    Care and Preservation of Photographic Prints
    The Henry Ford's Benson Ford Research Center provides guidelines, a bibliography, and a list of suppliers.
     
     
    Care, Handling, and Storage of Photographs: Bibliography
    Library of Congress list of recommended books and articles concerning the preservation of photographs. Originally published by IFLA Core Programme Preservation and Conservation, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
     
     
    Care of Photographs
    Guidelines from the Northeast Document Conservation Center.
     
     
    Caring for Your Treasures: Photographs
    The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works guide to caring for photographs of all sorts.
     
     
    Emergency Salvage of Wet Photographs
    Gary Albright, Senior Photograph Conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, writes about the process of saving photographs that have gotten wet.
     
     
    Preserving & Protecting Photographs: A Buyer’s Guide
    This page from the American Museum of Photography web site describes how to store and protect all types of photographs.

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    Public Domain Collections


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    Suggestion:  If you use the Search engine at the link above to search by year, you will get an interesting miscellany.  For example, a simple search on the term "1903" yields illustrations, photos, ebooks, postcards and ephemera from the year 1903, all of which are public domain based on the year.  The search engine thus serves as a simple "public domain filter" and also as a sort of Time Machine that can go to specific years.
    INDEX TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS (707,315 ITEMS)

    Africana & Black History Collection (11,086 items)

    Animals - Classic Illustrated Zoologies and related works, 1550 - 1900 (color illustrations, line drawings)

    Atlases of New York City (11,685 items)

    Book Covers - Collection of Book Jackets (2,506 items, 1926 to 1947)

    Cigarette Cards (49,679 items)

    Flowers, Plants, Trees - Nature Illustrated Collection (4,166 items) 

    Historic and Public Figures: Portrait Files (71,564 files)

    History - The "Pageant of America: Collection (7,085 items)

    Maps - Atlases of the United States (3,840 items, including city maps) 

    Maps - Charting America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection (4,320 items, including Maps of the World and gazeteers) 

    Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscript Collection (3,458 items) 

    Menus -  Buttolph collection of menus (18,964 items)  

    Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection (34,748 items.  Includes engravings, advertisements, cartoons and color illustrations)

    Music (Sheet Music) - American Popular Songs (4,724 items, including colorful illustrations of popular songs, sorted by year, 1890 - 1909)

    Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco (3,312 items)

    Postcards - Detroit Publishing Company Postcards Collection 

    Postcards - Holiday Postcards Collections (1,862 items)

    Posters - Turn of the Century Posters Collection (1,768 items, includes many public domain posters and magazine covers) 

    Russia - Platebooks from the Russian Empire, 1730 - 1935 (11,630 items, including many portraits, color illustrations, maps, engravings and photos)

    Stereoscopes - Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views (42,202 items) 

    Theatre - Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photographic File (49,139 items)
    OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

    Oakland Public Library. Not all are PD! The image detail page will state the status, PD images will be clearly marked "Public domain".

     

     

     SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES


      
    The Smithsonian is considered by many to be a museum, but in fact it operates several libraries.  This is the splash page for the Smithsonian Libraries and their digital collections.

    "The Libraries physical collections comprise 1.8 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, microfilm, photo collections and a/v material, housed in over 20 locations in Washington, Maryland, New York, and Panama."

     

     

    SUBJECT INDEXES TO SEVERAL COLLECTIONS

     




    United States Library Digital Collections


    Alabama



       Mobile Public Library – Digital Collection Page


       University of Alabama



    Alaska



       Anchorage Public Library – Digital Collection Page


       University of Alaska



    Arizona



       Phoenix Public Library – Digital Collection Page


       University of Arizona



    Arkansas



       Little Rock Public Library – Digital Collection Page


       University of Arkansas


    California

    California Digital Library

    California Digital Newpaper Collection

       Los Angeles Public Library – Digital Collection Page

        Online Archive of California (OAC)

       San Diego Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       San Francisco Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Stanford University

       University of California – Berkeley – Digital Collection Page

       University of California – Berkeley - Bancroft Library Collections

       University of California – Los Angeles – Digital Collection Page

       University ofCalifornia – San Diego – Digital Collection Page

        University of Southern California - Collections Page

    Colorado

       Denver Public Library – Digital Collection Page

      University ofColorado - Digital Library

    Connecticut

       Hartford Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       New Haven Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Stamford Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Connecticut Libraries – Digital Collection Page


    Delaware

       Dover Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Wilmington Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Delaware - Digital Collection Page

    Florida

      Jacksonville Public Library – Digital Collection Page   
         
       Miami Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Orlando Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Tallahassee Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Tampa Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Florida – Digital Collection Page

    Georgia

       Atlanta Public Library  – Digital Collection Page

       University ofGeorgia - Digital Library of Georgia A-Z Collections

    Hawaii

       Honolulu Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University ofHawaii - Manoa - Digital Collections Page

    Idaho

       Boise Public Library  – Digital Collection Page

       University ofIdaho Library - Digital Collections

    Illinois

       Chicago Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Springfield Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Illinois

    Indiana

       Indianapolis Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Purdue University 

       University of Indiana

    Iowa

       Des Moines Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Iowa

    Kansas

       Kansas City Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Topeka Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Kansas

    Kentucky

       Louisville Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Kentucky

    Louisiana

       Baton Rouge Public Library  – Digital Collection Page

       New Orleans Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Louisiana

    Maine

       Augusta Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Portland Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Maine

    Maryland

       Annapolis Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Baltimore Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Maryland

    Massachusetts

       Boston Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Boston University Library

       Harvard University Library

       Massachusetts Institute of Technology

       Springfield Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Massachusetts

    Michigan

      Detroit Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Lansing Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Michigan

    Minnesota

       Duluth Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Minneapolis Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       St. Paul Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Minnesota

    Mississippi

       Jackson Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Mississippi – Digital Collection Page

    Missouri

        St. Louis Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Missouri 

        Washington University Library

    Montana

        Helena Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Montana

    Nebraska

       Lincoln Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Nebraska

    Nevada

       Carson City Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Las Vegas Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Nevada – Digital Collection Page

    New Hampshire

      Concord Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Manchester Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of New Hampshire

    New Jersey

        Trenton Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of New Jersey

    New Mexico

       Albuquerque Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of New Mexico

    New York

       Columbia University Library

       New York Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       New York University

       State University of New York

    North Carolina

       Charlotte Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Raleigh Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of North Carolina

    North Dakota

       Bismarck Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of North Dakota

    Ohio

       Cincinnati Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Cleveland Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Columbus Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Dayton Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Ohio

    Oklahoma

        Oklahoma City Public Library – Digital Collection Page

        Tulsa Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Oklahoma

    Oregon

       Portland Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Salem Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Oregon

    Pennsylvania

       Philadelphia Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Pittsburgh Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Pennsylvania 

    Puerto Rico

       San Juan Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Puerto Rico

    Rhode Island

       Providence Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Rhode Island

    South Carolina

       Charleston Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of South Carolina

    South Dakota

      Pierre Public Library – Digital Collection Page

      Rapid City Public Library – Digital Collection Page

      University of South Dakota 

    Tennessee

       Memphis Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Tennessee

    Texas

        Austin Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Dallas Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Houston Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       Lubbock Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       San Antonio Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Texas

    Utah

       Salt Lake City Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Utah

    Vermont

       Middlebury College Library

       Montpelier Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Vermont

    Virginia

       Richmond Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Virginia

    Washington

       Seattle Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Washington

    West Virginia

       Charleston Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of West Virginia

    Wisconsin

       Madison Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Wisconsin

    Wyoming

       Cheyenne Public Library – Digital Collection Page

       University of Wyoming


     

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