Special Collections, University of Nevada, Reno Library

Dressler family (ca. 1907). Image id: UNRS-P1984-23-9. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Library. Image retrieved November 26, 2007 from http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/spphotos&CISOPTR=227&REC=16

The photographic image collections in the Special Collections Department of the University of Nevada, Reno Library contain more than 200,000 images. These images document life in Nevada and the surrounding region from the 1860's to the present. Subjects images of people, places, events, and the state's major industries, including mining, water, ranching, divorce, gambling, recreation and railroading.

Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum

Northwestern Olympic Peninsula communities and The University of Washington worked together to create this Web-based museum to showcase aspects of the rich history and culture of the region. A searchable archive of over 12,000 images and artifacts.

Arizona Memory Project

Berta Coveney (n.d.) Image id: SSL-AMP025. Arizona Historical Foundation Photograph Collection, Biography Series, FP B-306. Retrieved November 26, 2007 from http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ahfsaints&CISOPTR=5&REC=15

The Arizona Memory Project is an online effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. This initiative provides the opportunity to view some of the best examples of government documents, photographs, maps, and objects that chronicle Arizona's past and present. Contains images, sound and text from pre 1863 to the present.

Wikimedia Commons

A database of 2,189,292 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Natural History Picture Library

31864 Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon

The Natural History Museum's online Picture Library offer a comprehensive range of natural history images from the Museum's work and vast collections, which includes an incredible assortment of gems, minerals, mammal, reptile, fish, bird, plant and insect specimens gathered from around the world. This diverse library features unrivalled dinosaur pictures, images of human evolution, pictures of extinct species and remarkable fossil remains. They have extraordinary magnified views of life as seen through a microscope plus a collection of travel pictures taken as part of our scientists' fieldwork across the globe. We also hold one of the world's largest collections of natural history artworks, including original watercolour sketches from the Cook voyages, Waterhouse's designs for the main Museum building, and notebooks of key scientific discoveries.

Smithsonian Galaxy of Images Collection

Christiaan Huygens(1659). Systema Saturnium; sive, De Causis Mirandorum Saturni Phænomenôn, et Comite ejus Planeta Nova [Saturnian system]. Image ID: SIL4-1-52a.

The thousands of images on this site represent only a small portion of the more than 1.5 million printed books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The images available on this site represent a broad cross-section of the Libraries' collections. Additional images and collections are added regularly.

Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection

Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883. Goldsboro-Wilson-Smithfield area map. Local Identifier: 276/229.

The Gilmer maps are an extensive group of Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction, housed in the Manuscripts Department of The Wilson Library. This site currently includes 161 maps representative of the entire southern region, with particularly large groupings of North Carolina and Virginia maps. Most of the maps are dated 1861-1865.

PICMAN at the State Library of New South Wales, Australia

Terra Nova (merchant ship). (n.d.). Original : PXE 722/3882.

An online catalogue to pictures and manuscripts. The State Library of New South Wales pictures collection contains over 100 000 watercolours, prints and drawings, approximately 2000 paintings, over 75 000 architectural plans, over one million photographs, and 2300 museum objects.

Open Video Project

Images from: Moon Segment 02, NASA footage.

The Open Video Project is sponsored by and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.

Kansas Memory

Cowboys bathing in a pond, Seward County, Kansas (1891-1912). Image no. 11993.

Kansas Memory has been created by the Kansas State Historical Society to share its historical collections via the Internet. It supports the mission of the Society--to identify, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials and information pertaining to Kansas history in order to assist the public in understanding, appreciating, and caring for the heritage of Kansas.
The value of the site is in its rich content—letters, diaries, photographs, government records from the State Archives, maps, museum artifacts, and historic structures in Kansas. Content will be added continually.

Wisconsin Historical Society

1977 Scout Traveler with Terry Camper in the Mountains. (1977). Image ID: WHi-8768.

Wisconsin Historical Images provides a rich pictorial view of Wisconsin and United States history. The collection consists of 19th and 20th century photographs, paintings, posters, advertising material, ephemera, and political cartoons. Images online represent only a fraction of the 3 million images in the Archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The ALBATROSS dredging. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate I, p. 111. Image ID: ship0405.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the descendant of America's oldest science agencies, the Survey of the Coast formed in 1807, the Weather Service formed in 1870, and the forerunner of today's National Marine Fisheries Service formed in 1871. The foundation built by these great organizations has given rise to an agency whose realm extends from the surface of the sun to the bottom of the sea, whose concern for life in the sea extends from microscopic creatures to the great whales, and whose reach in time extends from thousands of years in the past to decades in the future with global change studies and observations.
More than 10,000 new images including ocean exploration photographs, coral reef photographs, polar regions photographs, Hurricane Katrina images, historical photographs, lightning photography, and images detailing the Treasures of the NOAA Library.

Alaska and Western Canada Collection at University of Washington Libraries

Dobbs, B. B. (n.d.) Eskimo in a umiak, or skin-covered boat, on ice floe with whale catch, Bering Straits. Order no. AWC1580.

The Alaska Western Canada and United States collection is a digital collection of historic photographs documenting the geographic area of Alaska, Western United States and the Canadian provinces of Yukon Territory and British Columbia. The collection features images of the Oregon, Idaho, and areas of interest in Alaska and the Yukon Territory relating to the Gold Rush of 1898-1900. Included also are images of mining activities, street scenes, Eskimo and Native Americans of the region, hunting and fishing, transportation, and World War II installations.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest at University of Washington Digital Collections

Tlingit Chief Shakes' house with totem poles, Wrangell, Alaska (n.d.). Viola Garfield Collection no. 130. Negative no: NA3701.

This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. The digital databases includes over 2,300 original photographs.

Bond Photo Library at University of Chicago

Bond, Frank (1944). A Cremation Ceremony.

The Bond collection consists of photographs taken during World War II by Frank Bond while serving in the Army Air Corps, 40th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, stationed in India and Burma. Bond was an avid photographer in private life and his passion and experience informed both his military work and his personal photographs documenting aspects of daily life in India.

Smithsonian Cross Catalog Searching Center

Anonymous Lakota student drawing of steam ship under attack by smaller boat (ca. 1893). Local Number: NAA INV 08515300.

The Cross Catalog Searching Center allows you to search descriptive records from dozens of Smithsonian libraries, archives and specialized research units. Search over 1.7 million records, with links to images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from all across the Smithsonian.