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  • Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

    Collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers.

  • PhotoLondon

    Portal showcasing five important public photograph collections of London: Guildhall Library, London Metropolitan Archives, Museum of London, National Monuments Record and Westminster City Archives. Between them they hold over one million photographs dating from the 1840s to present day. Gallery of images and e-mail links to the curators.

  • Picasa Web Albums - 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.

  • Picture the Past FREE

    The libraries and museums of Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have in their collections, hundreds of thousands of historic photographs, slides, glass plates, postcards and engravings recalling the history of the local communities over the last hundred years and more. Now the local authorities, with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund, have made it possible to search all these images on the internet, via this unique website.

  • Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters

    Digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains.

  • 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.

  • SEPIA (Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access)

    EU-funded project focusing on preservation of photographic materials.

  • 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 Digital Mirror

    The National Library of Wales is the home of some of the nation's most important treasures. The purpose of The Digital Mirror is to reflect some of these treasures, by displaying them through image, sound and text.

  • 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 Ludwig Collection

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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

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