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19th Century Actors Photographs

From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. The collection consists of 610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.

America's First Look into the Camera - Daugerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Arizona State Library and Archives Photos Collection

Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The collection includes about 90,000 images, including photographs, slides, negatives, glass plate negatives, tintypes, transparencies, postcards and others. Of these 90,000 images, about 9,000 are currently digitized and available to be searched on this site.

Australasia Church Albums

Aims to provide unique images of the churches of Australia and New Zealand, both past and present, with a description or history of each.

Australian War Graves Photographic Archive

A project that will have photographs of headstones of all A.I.F. service personnel who died during World War One and World War Two.

Baltimore City Life Museum Photograph Collection - Finding Aid

The collection begins in the late 1840s with particular strength in the first half of the twentieth century. Images date from 1849 to the 1980s. Included are daguerreotypes, paper prints, glass plate and film negatives, and slides (lantern and 35 mm). The collection is particularly strong in documentation of architecture and the Baltimore Harbor.

Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photographs

Presents nineteenth-century photographs made by Baltimore photo studios or of Baltimore residents.

Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library

The Bentley Image Bank includes images from the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. The collection is open to the public.

Berrien County, Georgia - Historical Photos Collection

A collection of historical photos of Berrien County, Georgia, including families, towns, county history, churches, schools, and commerce and trade.

Brady-Hughes-Beasley Archives

Tennessee. Photos of school teams, groups and vintage portrates from McMinnville's longest operating photo studio.

British Columbia Historical Photographs Online

Canada. Contains annotated links to online historical photograph databases and galleries mounted on archival web sites in British Columbia.

Chester Image Bank

A searchable database of historical images of Chester City in the UK and surrounding disrict. Perfect for illustrating family history and local history research. The images date back to about 1750 in the form of sketchs and 1860 in the form of photographs. There are people in some of the pictures though these are not always named.

Chicago Imagebase

Find a wealth of information at this site from before the Great Fire of 1871 to the present including the Fire Insurance Maps of Chicago, Robinson Atlases of Downtown Chicago (ca. 1886), Sanborn Atlas Maps, Rand McNally's Bird's-Eye Views and Guide to Chicago (ca. 1893), Historical View Books, and much more! Browse the imagebase collection by artist/architect, building and era. Find information on Using Historical Maps and Dating Buildings by Stylistic Analysis. View contemporary aerial views (ca. 1986) and photographs 1970-1990's of Chicago.

Christchurch City Libraries Photograph Collection

New Zealand. This online collection contains a selection of historical images of Christchurch and Canterbury. The photographs depict local people, places and events and are dated from approximately 1860 to 1975. They have been reproduced from historical newspapers, archival sources, early books and reports.

Clark Kinsey Photographs Collection

Clark Kinsey's work as a photographer documented the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest. From shortly before World War I, spent his career documenting the logging and milling camps and other forest related activities in Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia. This collection consists of photographs of loggers and logging life in Washington State.

Columbus Metropolitan Library: Columbus In Historic Photographs

Ohio.

Daguerreotypes 1842-1862

From the Library of Congress, American Memory collection.

Dalhousie University Libraries

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

DeadFred Genealogy Photo Archive

Searchable database containing images of thousands of identified and mystery 19th & 20th century photos for genealogy enthusiasts looking for long-lost family. Search vintage school annuals, faculty & students,images & names. Upload your own vintage yearbooks so others can discover their ancestral images.

Denver Public Library: Western History Genealogy: Digital Images

Prints and negatives that document the history of Colorado and the American West. Over 120,000 of the images in the collection have been digitized and are available for viewing online.