Image Collections
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ARTstor This link opens in a new windowOne million images over a wide range of subjects. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.
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American Memory ProjectIt's a little cumbersome, but in addition to images, you can also find multimedia objects.
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BBC ArchivesPictures, documents, and radio.
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Internet ArchiveAlso useful for document searches, the Internet Archive can be a useful place to look for audio and video clips.
Useful Websites
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HathiTrust This link opens in a new windowThe HathiTrust Digital Library is a collaborative of academic and research libraries that has preserved 17+ million digitized items for scholarly purposes. The HathiTrust offers you reading access to these materials to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law (~26% of the collection is in the public domain).
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Wellcome LibraryThe Library's digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, including asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war. Materials include primary source documents (such as the 'Ticehurst House Hospital Papers'), films and audio recordings (including a recording by Florence Nightingale), and a wide range of personal papers & manuscripts.
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American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and SettlementAmerican Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
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PhotogrammarPhotogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
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Spanish Civil War Memory ProjectOn this site, visitors can listen to dozens of recorded
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Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United StatesHere you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps.
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Encyclopedia of Jewish WomenThousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women around the world
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Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.
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Viking Society for Northern Research Web PublicationsThe organization's publications1893 to the present are freely available on this website, although recent titles may not be released until three years from the date of publication.