State Library of Tasmania

Title: Frank Long, the discoverer of Zeehan silver fields. (18-). ADRI: AUTAS001125882472. Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts.

The Tasmaniana Library holds mainly published material (books and pamphlets, maps, postcards, posters and printed ephemera) relating to Tasmania.

American Journeys - Wisconsin Historical Society

Kayak Island seen from the southeast. Cape St. Elias and Pinnacle Rock seen from the west. The western shore of south-central Kayak Island seen from the west.

Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Human Ecology Historical Photographs at Cornell University

The records of the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University document the history of the College, and its activities, events, and personalities. The collection, housed in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections of the Cornell Library, includes administrative records and correspondence that document the College’s involvement with government, educational, and private organizations at the national, state, and local levels; the College’s involvement in World War I and II, defense and relief committees; student and alumni activities; extension and outreach work; College committees and activities including the Farmers’ Institute, Farm and Home Week, Honors, and Home Economics Institutes; and blueprints, sketches, and samples relating to the construction of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. The collection also includes personal papers of Martha Van Rensselaer. Additionally over fourteen hundred photographs of students and faculty, buildings and scenes portray the College from its founding through 1969.

The European Library

Tailteann Games 1928. Two handball players (1928). Library Reference Number: INDH897. National Library of Ireland.

The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe in 20 languages. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.). Image searches can be limited to specific national libraries, or specific collections of materials.

Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian

F. Scott Fitzgerald to Charles Green Shaw, 1927 June 21. Letter : 2 p. : handwritten ; 33 x 22 cm. Charles Green Shaw papers, 1874-1979. Archives of American Art.

In February 2005, the Archives received an award of $3.6 million from the Terra Foundation for American Art to dramatically increase the accessibility of its resources. The grant is being used to fund a comprehensive, five-year program to digitize a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most important holdings. These include the papers of a highly diverse range of artists and arts-related figures, from the 18th century to the present. At the end of the project, an estimated 1.6 million digital files will be available to the public.

Greater Cincinnati Memory Project

Ohio River and Kentucky Hills. (n.d.) Identifier ocp003169pccpc. Cincinnati Postcard Collection.

The Greater Cincinnati Memory Project is currently in the second phase of development. While the first stages of the project successfully established the online database and made an initial 5,884 images available, new content is also being made available. Continuing with the theme of pre-1940 photos, postcards, and slides of area landmarks and events, the Project has been expanded to include images of Cincinnati area people.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology - animal sounds and associated video

Avian naturalist and Professor of Ornithology, Arthur Augustus Allen. (n.d.).

The world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video. The Macaulay Library is a principal source of sound recordings for basic research, education, conservation, habitat assessment, media, and commercial projects. The collection is strongest in New World species but also has substantial holdings from Africa and Madagascar, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South East Asia. The Library archives and preserves an exhaustive sampling of the behaviors of each animal species using digital video and audio recordings.

Queens College -- Waterways of New York V 2.1 Fall 2006/Spring 2007 Digital Imaging class work

Canal & River at Freemen's Bridge, Schenectady, N.Y. (n.d.). Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant. Publisher: Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York.

This is a collection of historically significant cultural heritage materials documenting the waterways of New York state. The intent of the collection is to provide a visual record of the history and culture of the many cities and towns that were associated in some way with the waterways of New York. Students, teachers, researchers and those interested in waterways will find this rich resource a valuable addition to the history of what made New York the "Empire State." This collection mainly comprises early twentieth century postcards depicting the Delaware and Hudson (D&H) Canal.

Virtual Mitchell

Prince's Dock (c.1905). Record number C1682.

The photographs in this digital collection are mostly from the Archives and Special Collections housed in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. The images feature Glasgow's buildings and streets as well as people going about their daily lives. Great interest to local historians, people researching their family history and anyone who would like a glimpse of Glasgow in days gone by. Searchable by area, street or subject.

Tobacco Bag Stringing

Mrs. Flossie Johnson, Reidsville, N.C. (1939). Filename VC331.76_S93s_091.tif.

University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill's Digital Collections include the Tobacco Bag Stringing digitized collection. Throughout the tobacco-growing regions of the American South during the Great Depression, individuals and families earned much-needed income by sewing drawstrings into small cotton tobacco bags. This website presents images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.

Matapihi

Dog Chris, listening to the gramophone, Antarctica.[ca Jan 1911]. Reference number PA1-f-067-099-2.

Matapihi is the online digitized collections of a number of New Zealand cultural organizations, which allows searching across a variety of digital collections from one website. The collections represented are about New Zealand, made in New Zealand, created by New Zealanders or held in New Zealand collections.

Picture Australia

Horticulture - Tropical fruit - plastic bags being used to protect bananas (1954). Image no.: A1200, L16660.

A service hosted by the National Library of Australia to provide a single access point to the digitized pictorial collections of a wide range of Australian resources. Direct access to over 1.3 million images.

Prelinger Collection

Still from Heavenly bodies (1927).

Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions.

Ohio Historical Society, African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920

House of John P. Parker (1910). Call number SC489.

The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 is a digital collection brought together from a number of individual sources specifically for this project. These sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Jackson, William Henry. Crater of the Castle and the Crested Hot Spring. (1875?-1885?). Image number 1106.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

American Memory at the Library of Congress

First Ladies Aid of Highland Church, Nekoma, N.D..(1899?). Reproduction no. Hult.441. Fred Hulstrad and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections.

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

Collect Britain

Diagrammatic Zonal World Map, 9th Century. British Library Shelfmark; Harley MS 2772, f. 70v.

This website showcases thousands of items from the British Library. You can browse our collections, tours and exhibitions, or search the site in many different ways. Collections include maps of London, wildlife recordings, early photographic book illustrations, stamps, sheet music collections, manuscripts and more.

Image platform of the Austrian National Library

Kaiseradler: Junger Vogel wird vom Innsbruckner Falkner Holzer abgerichtet. (n.d.) US 10.578/1.

The image platform of the Austrian National Library contains 50.000 historical images from the holdings of the Austrian National Library, the historical archive of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, the Association for the Study of the History of the Labour Movement and the archive of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History of the University of Vienna. Those images are available online for scientific research, for commercial and editorial use.

Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress

Pinkey & the camera (1888). Image ID: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04897.

The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to more than 50% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Wonderland Arcade, 1200 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Missouri, 1968 (ARC ID 283784). NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City).

Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. Searches in the catalog can be limited to digitized images -- there are currently 58,184 still pictures in ARC.