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“Books in this collection may be borrowed by logged in patrons for a period of two weeks. You may read the books online in your browser, or download them into Adobe Digital Editions, a free piece of software used for managing loans.”
Some books have long waiting lists (and maybe a single issue to lend)
Millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Each record links to the original object on the content provider’s website.
Photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings from Library of Congress collections. While international in scope, the collections are rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
Prints, photographs, manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, illustrated books, printed ephemera, streaming video, and more from the New York Public Library Collections.
Photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe. Captures the nineteenth century in photographs of family and society, invention and scientific discovery, exploration and colonization, urban versus rural life, work, leisure and travel.
Photographs from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, covering:
Exploration and travel
Empire, colonization, and life in colonized regions
Topography and archaeology
Daily life in the nineteenth century in countries across the globe
People and portraiture
Science, medicine, and criminology
Photography as reproduction of art works
Key events and wars
Vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
Includes early photographs of the moon, views of the first operations using ether as an anesthetic, rare portraits of African-born enslaved people, and more. Portraits include Horatio Alger, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Jenny Lind, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and James McNeill Whistler. The collections represent the work of pioneering daguerreotypists Mathew Brady, Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Adams Whipple, and others.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
The Metropolitan launched its Open Access Initiative that makes all images of public-domain artworks and basic data on all accessioned works in its collection available for unrestricted use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
Images include visual arts, applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media. Created by the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).
Photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings from Library of Congress collections. While international in scope, the collections are rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
Millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Each record links to the original object on the content provider’s website.
Photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe. Captures the nineteenth century in photographs of family and society, invention and scientific discovery, exploration and colonization, urban versus rural life, work, leisure and travel.
Photographs from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, covering:
Exploration and travel
Empire, colonization, and life in colonized regions
Topography and archaeology
Daily life in the nineteenth century in countries across the globe
People and portraiture
Science, medicine, and criminology
Photography as reproduction of art works
Key events and wars
Vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
Prints, photographs, manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, illustrated books, printed ephemera, streaming video, and more from the New York Public Library Collections.
Source for fashion and dress history, featuring essays on objects and artworks from museums and libraries that span the globe. From the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Includes early photographs of the moon, views of the first operations using ether as an anesthetic, rare portraits of African-born enslaved people, and more. Portraits include Horatio Alger, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Jenny Lind, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and James McNeill Whistler. The collections represent the work of pioneering daguerreotypists Mathew Brady, Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Adams Whipple, and others.
Thousands of advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States. From Duke University.
Archives of consumer magazines published for a female audience, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. These magazines cover family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, and culture, and provide canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. Each magazine contains volume 1, issue 1 through 2005. Publications are in high-resolution color.
Digital Archive of the US edition of Vogue Magazine, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month.
Searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Pages, advertisements, covers and fold-outs have been included, with rich indexing enabling researchers to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
Images from the Library of Congress digital collections that are in the public domain, have no known copyright, or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.
Photos featuring plus-size people at home, with emphasis is on what the models are doing, not how big they are while they’re doing it. Photos available for all uses.
While attribution is not required to use the photos, please credit AllGo and photographer Michael Poley of Poley Creative whenever possible so that others may find these stock photo collections.
Disability-led project that provides free and inclusive stock photos and illustrations from our own perspective, featuring disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color).
Creative Commons attribution licensing, which means you can use, share, and adapt the images for free with appropriate credit.
Photos should be attributed to Disabled And Here. When possible, please link back to the Disabled And Here project page.
