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Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

Artists, engravers and photographers managed to capture and preserve for posterity a variety of images of African Americans throughout the 19th century.

Eric A. Hegg Photographs

Historic photographs after the 1900 gold rush.

Finding Your Family - Cindy's Old Photos

Old photographs of the USA from the early 1900s. Includes historical and military photos taken by J.E. Connett.

Florida Memory - Photographs

Search the entire on-line archive, select collections for searching, or focus in on a specific collection.

Free Library of Philadelphia - Historical Images of Philadelphia

Fries Fotoarchief / Frysk Fotoargyf

Het Fries Fotoarchief is de online beeldcollectie van Tresoar en bevat een kleine 80.000 afbeeldingen. Het beeldmateriaal is afkomstig uit overheidscollecties en particuliere collecties. The Frisian Photo Archive is Tresoar's online image collection and contains almost 80,000 images. The images come from government and private collections.

Fulton-Montgomery Photographic Archives

New York. Images from Fulton and Montgomery County repositories (Johnstown City Historian, Johnstown Historical Society, Johnstown Public Library, The Montgomery County Archives, Fulton County Museum) showing area landmarks, social gatherings, and newsworthy events.

Genealogy Images of History

A massive website of individuals whose picture were published in the news of the day.

Guide to the Photographic Collections - Maryland State Archives

Camera symbol indicates collections where available prints have been scanned. NOTE: Only selected photographic collections are included in this index.

HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library

Vast image library featuring more than 40000 photographs from 84 countries & territories on 6 continents, of ALL aspects of Jewish life. Includes memorial name-tablets from synagogues, headstones from Jewish cemeteries etc. Relative scarcity of East & Central European photos due to Holocaust emphasizes importance of this ongoing project.

Harvard University Library - Daguerreotypes at Harvard

More than 3,500 daguerreotypes.

Historic Aerials

Free online historic aerials for research.

Historic England

Charged to protect and celebrate England's historic buildings, monuments, parks, gardens, battlefields and wreck sites.

Introduction to Imaging (Getty Research Institute)

Kentucky Digital Library

The Kentucky Digital Library is built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning through the establishment of access to shared digital archival collections in the state of Kentucky. Collections and subsets of collections selected will have a strong Kentucky orientation as well as broad appeal on geographic, content and study levels. The materials will be unique or not widely available.

Leon K. Hughes Photography Collection

An online archive of African American photography. Part of the Kansas Collection, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.

Library of Congress - Daguerreotypes

There are approximately 700 daguerreotypes in the Prints & Photographs Division. The majority of the images are portraits, but the collection does include a few early architectural views, outdoor scenes, and copies of works of art.

Lost Memory - Libraries and Archives Destroyed in the Twentieth Century

Louisiana Division Photo Collection

Includes over 40,000 individual photographic prints, negatives and slides.

Macleay Museum

Sydney, Australia.