Ad Access --more than 7,000 ads from 1911-1955 from Duke University's Special Collections

Age of King Charles V, 1338-1380: 1000 Illuminations --from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945 --more than 100,000 photographs from the American Memory Project

American Environmental Photographs --from the American Memory Project

American Institute of Physics --thousands of digitized photos from the Emilio Segre Visual Archives

American Memory Project --available online from the Library of Congress

Archives of American Art --from the Smithsonian Institution

Australian Images --more than 20,000 images from the National Library of Australia

Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection --finding aids for images in huge California Heritage Project

Beinecke -- Exhibitions -- The Illustrating Traveler --illustrations from North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895

British Columbia Historical Photographs Online --from the Archives Association of British Columbia

Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera --from the American Memory Project

California Historic Photographs --more than 2,900 digitized photographs of northeastern California from California State University-Chico

Canada: These Things We Hold Dear --online version of a book by Dr. Lorraine Monk, which includes many historic photographs.  Sponsored by Kodak

Canadian Heritage Gallery

Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature --searchable database of online cartoons from the University of Kent at Canterbury

The Chairman Smiles --posters from the former Soviet Union, China, and Cuba from an exhibition of the International Institute of Social History

Civil War Photographs --from the American Memory Project

Collage --online database of 20,000 images from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery of London; great source for English history

Connecticut History Online --eventually will have more than 14,000 images online

Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864 --from the American Memory Project

Digital Archive of Art --online images from Boston College

Digital History -- The site includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology.

Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian --this American Memory Project web site includes more than 2000 images of Indian customs and lifeways, as photographed by Edward Curtis

Egypt and the Sudan: 1905-1907 Breasted Expedition: A Photographic Study --from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago

The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated --this Library of Congress exhibit displays photographs of the Russian empire taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudini-Gorskii between 1909-1912 and also in 1915.

European Visual Archive --searchable online collection of historical photographs from the London Metropolitan Archives and the Stadsarchief Antwerpen

Florida State Archives Photographic Collection

GALILEO: Georgia Library Learning Online --click on Digital Library of Georgia; includes access to Historic Georgia Newspapers Online, Georgia Legislative Documents (dating back to the colonial era), and Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842 (more than 1,000 documents)

The Gallery of the Open Frontier --thousands of public domain images of the American West from the National Archives, courtesy of the University of Nebraska Press

G. I. Jones -- Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture --Southern Illinois University site of photographs taken by G. I. Jones of Cambridge University in the 1930s

Great Images in NASA Library (GRIN)

Historic American Buildings Survey/Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)

History of Costume by Braun & Scheider --include many images; costumes from the ancient world to the 19th century

Images of American Political History

Images of England --this English Heritage site eventually will include images of 370,000 historic buildings

Incunabala --more than 6,000 woodcuts from the early modern period from the Bavarian State Library; the site is in German, but there is an English index to the book illustrations

Internet Archive Movie Collection --nearly 1,000 short movies about different aspects of life in America, created by industries, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, mostly during the 1940s and 1950s

Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (1860-1899) --from Nagasaki University Library

Library of Congress Manuscripts  --includes material not in the American Memory Project

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division --Online access substantial portions of the wonderful Library of Congress pictorial collections, including and beyond LC image collections in the American Memory Project; see especially the "Prints & Photographs Online Catalog" and "Lists of Images on Popular Topics." (Note: Onsite research is open to people above high school age.)

Library of Virginia Online Photograph Collections

Louisiana State University Digital Library --includes the Louisiana State Museum Photograph Collection, with 1500 digitized images of Louisiana dating from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s

Maryland Historical Society Digitized Photograph Collections --more than 2,000 online photographs

MATEO - editio theodoro-palatina online --scanned images from rare books and manuscripts featuring portraits, maps, and other items relating to women humanists and the history of the Palatinate, from the Mannheim University Library

Mexico from Empire to Revolution --photographs from 1857 to 1923 from the Getty Research Institute

Modern History Image Bank --hundreds of images of the world from the 1700s to the present from Brooklyn College

NASA Image eXchange (NIX)

NASA Space Image Libraries

National Library of Australia Documentary Image Collection --more than 20,000 images of Australia

New Deal Network Library --photo collection from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

New Deal Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 --more than 900 posters from the American Memory Project

New Perspectives on the West --primary sources used in the PBS series, including images

New York State Archives: Picture This: The World in the Early Twentieth Century

Northeast Historic Film: Film and Videotape of Northern New England

Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 --from the American Memory Project

Oregon Historic Photos--thousands of images from the Salem Public Library

Panoramic Photographs Collection --from the American Memory Project

Persepolis and Ancient Iran --photographs of archaeological sites from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago

PictureAustralia --images from cultural and historical institutions throughout Australia

Portrait Gallery --images from the Perry-Castaneda Library

Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies --from the American Memory Project

Prairie Settlement: Photographs from the Nebraska State Historical Society

Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century --images from all over the nation from the collections of the New York Public Library

Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network --more than 1 million images of Scottish material culture and history, funded by the Millennium Commission

Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1920 --from the American Memory Project

SouthEast Asian Images & Texts Project --from the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920

Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives --more than 8,000 images, from the University of Hawaii

TV News Archive

United Nations Photos --some photographs of UN meetings and the UN at work

United States Holocaust Museum Research Collections Photographs --searchable online database

University of Utah Photograph Archives --from the J. Willard Marriott Library

University of Washington Libraries Digital Initiative Program --includes thousands of online photographs of the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere

Western History Photograph Collection --more than 65,000 photographs from the Denver Public Library

World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection, 1894-1896 --from the American Memory Project

World War II Poster Collection --300 US government posters, from the collections of Northwestern University Library