NATIONAL/REGIONAL RESOURCES BY CATEGORIES

The websites listed are only a handful of available sites for information and research. Each site contains additional state and county resources so make sure to explore them. Many archives and libraries have searchable catalogs and many have digital collections of documents and/or photographs.

This is a constantly growing list, so feel free to email Creative History with other historic and genealogical webistes that provide information about their collections or have online access to them.

Major Collections of Photographs and Primary Sources

American Journeys
Archives of Michigan - Photograph Collection
Archiving Early America
Authentic History Center - Primary Sources from American Popular Culture
Bostonian Society and Museum - Online Collections
Photos from the Chicago Daily News (Library of Congress)
Cleveland Public Library - Photograph Collection
Denver Public Library Photography Collection
Digital Archive (University of Southern CA)
Digital History
Documenting the American South (Univ. of NC, Chapel Hill)
George Eastman House - Photography Collection
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Harp Weekly - Explore History
Henry Ford Museum - Images Online
Historical Text Archive - Electronic History Resources
Library of Congress - American Memory
America from the Great Depression to World War II
America’s First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype 1839-1862
History of the American West
Inside and American Factory: Films of Westinghouse Works, 1904
Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Original Format Sound Recordings
Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company
Selected Civil War Photographs
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938
Small-Town America: Stereoscope Views, 1850-1920
Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera
Library of Virginia - Photo Collection
Making of America (University of Michigan)
Making of America (Cornell University)
National Public Broadcasting Archives (Univ. of MD, College Park)
New York Public Library - Picture Collection Online
Nineteenth Century in Print
Northeast Historic Film
NYC Images
OhioPix
Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company
San Francisco Public Library - Historical Photograph Collection
The Valley of the Shadow
University of Pennsylvania, Online Books Page - Serials

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