United States History: Images for United States History

Images of the most important documents of American history.

Historical Collections for the Library of Congress Digital Library. American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from over 100 collections.

Thousands of broadsides, pamphlets, posters, tickets and other printed items from across America. Part of Duke Digital Collections.

The collection of Charles W. Cushman's nearly 15,000 kodachrome slides is a photographic document of American social history in the twentieth century.

Over 13,600 images of high resolution images with an emphasis on the American continents during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Over 175,000 photographs documenting life in America between 1935 and 1944. Government agencies involved include the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942), and the Office of War Information (1942-1944). The negatives are now part of the Library of Congress Collections.

About 600 portraits chronicling the people, customs and traditions of Native American tribes from 1830-1838. Search database for: George Catlin

Digital images from the George Eastman collection spanning the decades from 1839 to today.

20th century history through the cartoons of Herb Block.

Photograph holdings of the Labadie Collection on social protest and radical politics, housed in the Univ. of Michigan Special Collections Library.

Access to most of the images and catalog records of the LOC Prints & Photographs Unit.

Extensive collection from the photojournalist magazine chronicling American life and events over the last century and a half.

Over 3,000 images from the Lincoln Highway Association (1910-1927).

Several thousand images from the collections of the NPS, including park architecture, Native American heritage, roads and transportation, CCC, etc.

News photos and graphics from the New York Times and partner publications.

Over 870,000 images, video and audio files from the New York City Municipal Archives featuring the history of the city. Search by collection or by keyword.

Links to a range of exhibits relating to moments in US history, such as elections, work, etc.

A web-based platform for searching, organizing, and visualizing over 170,000 photographs dating from 1935-1945 created by the US Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information.

Two collections from the Smithsonian American Art Museum comprising over 5,500 images featuring the Ashcan School Artists and American artists of the early 20th century.

Over 2,100 posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, etc. collected over the past 100 years.

Directory of and information about the U.S. Presidential Libraries (supplied by the National Archives and Records Administration).

Several thousand images from collections of the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs and the relating the history of Detroit; including urban development, politics, civil rights, ethnic communities, etc.

A searchable database of ove 5,000 images of African art published before 1921. The images are extensively catalogued.

Search over six million records with 536,000 images, video and sound files and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives, and libraries.

Approximately 1200 images culled from many sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.

Features images of maps, letters, diaries, newspapers, portraits, etc. from the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

View and download images, video, and audio from the entire USGS image collection.