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Queensland Soldiers in the South African War | John Oxley Library

From the State Library of Queensland. An index of about 3000 soldiers' portraits of Queensland soldiers who fought in the South African War (1899-1902), also known as the Boer War.

Reflective Images

Photos of more than 300 Welsh towns and villages and over 1,000 separate listings.

Robertson Register of Historical Photographs

Online searchable database of identified persons in vintage photographs found in repositories and private collections located in the United States.

Scottish Highlander Photo Archive

The Scottish Highlander Photo Archive (SHPA) is a searchable online database of photographic portraits, mostly taken in Scotland but featuring people from all over the world, with, if it is available, basic information identifying them. The database enables Scottish expatriates who are interested in their family history to search the archive for family matches and purchase prints. There is also a photo library service for publishers who wish to use images in their magazines, books, or newspapers. The bulk of the Archive consists of the photographic portraiture lifework of Andrew Paterson (1877-1948) and his son Hector G.N. Paterson (1904-1988), who operated their Inverness studio between 1895-1980. There are also many images submitted by contributors.

Sockenbilder / Parish Pictures

A non-profit organization formed to help Sweden's local history societies to save and publish their old pictures on the Internet. Parish photos for H

The Daguerreian Society

Dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype.

The European Library

A portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some for a fee.

The Francis Frith Collection

Access to 330,000 photographs depicting 7,000 British towns and villages. Taken between 1860 and 1970 by the photographers of F.Frith & Co. this archive is the foremost topographical photographic record of Britain.

The National Archives (UK) - Photographs

The National Portrait Gallery

From the Smithsonian, includes an online exhibition of the Portraits of the Presidents.

Timepix

We bring you fascinating and intriguing photographs of streets, landscapes and portraits to help with genealogy, historical studies, and creative projects. One historical photo map including over 30,000 of towns in Greater Manchester, UK taken just after WW2 for a survey of the area. These include streets houses, shops and people.

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

From American Memory, Library of Congress.

Trove

A digital archive from the National Library of Australia. Books, journals, magazines, articles; pictures and photos; digitised newspapers; diaries, letters, archives; maps ; music, sound and video; archived websites (1996

Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives Photos - University of Hawaii

The Trust Territory Archives Photograph Collection is a unique resource of 50,000 photographs and 2,000 slides that documents the history of the American period in Micronesia (1947-1988), and includes invaluable visual representations of island cultures. Much of this material was salvaged from the former Trust Territory Headquarters on Saipan, and owes its very existence to the persistence of former Trust Territory Archivist Sam McPhetres and his team, who were engaged in microfilming the files of the American administration.

University of Wyoming Collections - Ludwig & Svenson Studio Photographs

Photographs from the Ludwig Collection, produced by the Laramie, Wyoming based Ludwig Studio. These 200 scans are a selection of the 8x10 negatives produced during the 1930s.

UPI News Pictures

Online archive of over 100,000 images.

Waunakee Public Library's Public Gallery

Waunakee Public Library's digital local history photo collection, including photos of some early and famous settlers and homes in Waunakee, WI.

West Virginia University - West Virginia and Regional History Collection - Photographs

Wichita Photo Archives

A digital collection of images of Wichita, Kansas, from the 1860s to the present. Images include not only people and buildings, but also documents the rich aviation history of the city. Browse the image collection by decade or topic, or search the informative descriptions.

Willard Library Digital Collections

Collection available to view online contains 17,000 photographs from 19th and 20th century Battle Creek, Michigan. There are three parts: The "Battle Creek Homes and Buildings, c. 1940" portion provides a catalog, street by street, of all of the buildings within the 1940 boundaries of Battle Creek. The "Photographs from Battle Creek's History" section provides a searchable selection of 5,500 photographs selected from the files of Willard Library. The "Dorothy Martich Black History Photo Archive" represents many years of research by local historians Dorothy and Michael Martich, whose work toward documenting the history of the Battle Creek African American community was painstakingly accomplished in the 1980s and 1990s. In addition, the library also offers a local newspaper collection. Ross Coller worked for 47 years as a journalist in Battle Creek and spent much of his lifetime chronicling our area's past. After his death, his family donated his notes and work to the library.