Vintage media depicting life and change from the mid-1800s. Historical photographs, sound recordings, early motion pictures, and other rare materials. Links to online collections.
Science Smithsonian Science Service Historical Image Collection Technology Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers Central Pacific Railroad: Photographic History Museum Computer History Museum Emile Berliner & the Birth of the Recording Industry IBM Archives Rosebud's Early Aviation Archives Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
Business and Economy The Emergence of Advertising in America Trade Card Place
Society African American Experience in Ohio African American Odyssey America from the Great Depression to World War II American Indians of the Pacific Northwest American Landscape and Architectural Design American Women Ansel Adams: Japanese- American Internment Around the World in the 1890s Battlefields of Virginia Black Archives of Mid-America Born in Slavery Bridging the Urban Landscape Changing New York 1935-1938 Charles Sampson Collection Chicago's Front Door Civil War Photos Civil War Treasures Construction of the Empire State Building Daguerreian Society Daguerreotype Portraits and Views Down the Drain: Chicago's Sewers Edward S. Curtis: North American Indian Ellis Island and Immigration: 1880-1920 Gold Rush Centennial Photographs History of the American West Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Society (cont.) Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights League of Nations: Photo Archive Japanese Old Photographs Middle East Photograph Archive Performing Arts in America: 1875-1923 Photographs from the Chicago Daily News Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz Photographs from the Sixties Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Picturing the Century Posters from the WPA Prairie Settlement Russian Empire: 1895-1910 Russian Empire in Photographs Selected Civil War Photographs Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination Simon Wiesenthal Center: Digital Archives Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views Southern Mosaic Streetcar Lines in Northern Virginia Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920 The Atlantic Slave Trade The Barren Lands (Canada) The Chinese in California: 1850-1925 The First American West The Native American Experience The Northern Great Plains: 1880-1920 The South Texas Border The Urban Landscape Touring Turn-of-the- Century America UN Pictorial History Voices from the Dust Bowl Westward by Sea
Environment American Environmental Photographs: 1891-1936 Evolution of the Conservation Movement Reclaiming the Everglades
Major Collections Alaska Community Album American Museum of Photography Calvin Photgraphic Collection Canadian Heritage Gallery Center for Southwest Research: Pictorial Collections Chicago Historical Society Florida Photographic Collection Howard Schickler Gallery Images Canada Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Louisiana State Museum Photograph Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photographs Minnesota Historical Society: Photograph Collections New York Public Library Picture Collection Newseum: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs Online Archive of California Prelinger Archives Time Life Pictures UCR/California Museum of Photography USDA Historical Photos Whatcom Museum: Vintage Photograph Collection William Gedney: Photographs and Writings
Sound Recordings American Leaders Speak Canadian Historical Sound Recordings Dawn of Sound Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine History Buff Jan's 78 rpm Record Warehouse Mercury Theatre Radio Days Tinfoil.com Vintage Recordings
Film America at Work, America at Leisure American Variety Stage Early Films of New York Early Films of San Francisco Inside an American Factory Inventing Entertainment Origins of American Animation The Spanish-American War
