Digital Collections - Images and Primary Sources - HIST 302: Places in North America

Digital Collections - Images and Primary Sources

These websites can provide useful content for your ibook project. (ibooks from previous semesters)

For primary sources in library databases see the rest of this guide, including historical newspapers, magazines and early e-books.

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts
Archive of Early American Images (John Carter Brown Library)
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
British Library Images
California Missions Resource Center
Digital Archaeological Record
Digital Public Library of America
Digital collections from libraries across the U.S. Can search by keywords, or browse places on a map.
DocSouth Collections
Primary sources documenting the U.S. South, including historic photographs, maps and descriptive accounts.
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
Florida - Central Florida Memory
Libraries and Archives Canada - Image Search
Digital Images from the combined holdings of the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
A massive collection. Includes;
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936, American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 to 1920, and Cities and Towns.
National Park Service Heritage Documentation Programs
Includes the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Photogrammar
Use to search and visualize the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
University of California, Calisphere
Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 900,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting.
World Digital Library - North America