Research Guides @ Fordham: American History: Images

Photographs

See the sources below for getting digital images.

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American Memory from the Library of Congress
Sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Archive of Early American Images - John Carter Brown Library
Nearly 7,000 images of colonial North and South America.

ARTstor
Hundreds of thousands of images of paintings, sculptures, architecture, prints and photographs. To use image viewer off-campus you need to create a user account on campus, and disable your browser’s pop-up blocker.

Civil Rights Digital Library
Compilation of digitized primary source material including film archive from two Georgia television stations, oral histories, documents and photographs.
Library of Congress - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
More than 1.2 million digitized images including photograph, cartoons, posters, drawings and prints.
NARA - National Archives and Records Administration
Includes several online exhibits and catalog of digitized documents and photographs.
New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery
Collection of over 870,000 photographs and other images from 35 NYC agencies including mayors, WPA photos and historic map collection.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Over half a million digital images of NYPL visual holdings - posters, prints, dust jackets, maps, photographs, etc.
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image
Collection of over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music from University of Pennsylvania.

Videos

This film, shot by the Miles brothers, was made on April 14, 1906, only four days before the San Francisco earthquake. It was taken from the front window of a moving cable car.

Video

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Historic programs of public radio and television; a collaboration between the Library of Congress and Boston's WGBH.
American Indian Film Gallery
". . . presently contains over 450 non-fiction films that document Native lifeways from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego with a large concentration of peoples of the Southwest . . ."
American Memory from the Library of Congress - Motion Pictures
American Rhetoric
Index "to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and other recorded events . . ."

CBS News 60 MINUTES
On ProQuest's platform. CBS News 60 MINUTES offers unprecedented access to transcripts and nearly 500 hours of video from 1997–2014. 60 MINUTES is among the most respected TV journalism programs in the world.

Folkstreams
Films by independent film makers about American folk cultures
Google Cultural Institute
Collection of photos and videos representing a wide selection of worldwide historical topics from 1900 to 2000.
Internet Archive
Digital library Internet sites, texts, audio, moving images and audio.
National Screening Room
Moving image collection of the Library of Congress

American History: Images

Photographs

Videos

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