HIST 091: Senior Research Seminar (SC)

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. You can search or browse by topic, time, place, or document type (e.g. manuscripts, images, maps, motion pictures).

Digitized images from the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections, ranging from manuscripts to maps to broadsides.

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

You can search the collection or browse by subject.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Search LIFE magazine's photographs through an easy-to-use website hosted by Google. Includes photographs from the 1750s to the 1970s.

A large collection of color (Kodochrome) photos taken worldwide from 1938-1969. You may want to browse by location or subject.

This collection is particularly strong in World War I French and American posters, and World War II American "home front" posters. War bonds, rationing, enlistment, security, and morale are all topics treated by these artworks. (There are other digitized war poster collections available online, too.)