National Portrait Gallery: Teaching with 19th-Century Portraits
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and presidents from the 19th century.
Crop It
Use this four-step learning routine to deeply explore visual primary sources.
Women's Suffrage Photographs
How did the women’s suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its advantage? TJ Boisseau looks at what photographs reveal.
Reading Photographs: A Dusty Street
When and where was this photo taken? See what clues you can spot!
Reading Photographs: MacArthur and Hirohito
How would you have planned this photograph if you were General MacArthur?
Presidents Day: Growing Up to Be President
Even American presidents were babies once!
Reading Photographs: Snow Day
When was this winter photo taken? See what clues you can spot!
WhatWasThere
Put the past next to the present with this photo-sharing and mapping tool.
Lewis Hine: Caption Critique
Does a caption change the meaning of a photograph?
Native American Heritage Month: Questioning Photos
Photographs capture how someone appeared at one moment in time. But who arranged that moment?
The Election of 1932: Photographs of FDR
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. Ritchie looks at the people captured in this photograph.
Flickr
Use pictures to teach and learn history—and explore copyright issues.
Joe Jelen on the New York Public Library Digital Gallery
This digitized photographs contained in this collection can be incorporated into lesson plans in a variety of exciting ways.
Copyright: Finding Images to Tell the Story of History
Fair use? Public domain? Creative Commons? Find images of history that you can use to tell its story, without worrying about fees and fines.
American Museum of Photography
View fantastic photography throughout the ages in over 15 exhibits.
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
View the mid-20th-century art scene through the photographs of music and dance critic Carl Vechten.
Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine
Sixty-four photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine between 1908 and 1912 document child labor conditions.
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
More than 2,000 striking images of North American tribes from between 1907 and 1930.
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America
This database of images literally offers snapshots of late 19th to early 20th century America.
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
Displays nearly 4,000 panoramic photographs of cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits.
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
Documents the birth of the conservation movement through published works, manuscripts, images, and motion picture footage.
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven
Treasures of the Library of Congress are now available on Flickr.
Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read
Examines 19th-century children in America: what they read, what was written about them, and what was written for them.
Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
Includes more than 300 U.S. government pamphlets and books on home front issues from World War II.
Disability History Museum
Explore the experiences of those with disabilities through documents and images dating from the 18th century to the present.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
Presents more than 55,000 Chicago Daily News photographs taken in the early 20th century.
Small-Town America: Images from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
More than 12,000 stereoscopic photographs depict life in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut small towns and rural areas from 1850 to 1920.
Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
Examples of early photographs preserve the likenesses of cities, famous figures, and other subjects.
Digital Library of Georgia
Examines the history and culture of the state of Georgia, presenting an extensive range of primary sources.
The Great Depression to World War II: Photos from the FSA-OWI
Explore this database of over 150,000 photographs that capture the true nature of this crisis and its solutions.
South Texas Border, 1900-1920: The Robert Runyon Collection
This site showcases over 8,000 images documenting the history and development of South Texas and the border.
Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
Contains 10,000 pages and images on Everglades reclamation efforts and the history of south Florida.
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs, 1894-1896
Explore this archive of over 900 images by American photographer, William Henry Jackson.
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Ansel Adams’s photographs preserve life at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II.
Selected Civil War Photographs
Explore more than 1,000 Civil War photographs.
Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
Access over than 78,000 digital government resources—from textual records to sound recordings and everything in between!