Research guides: History Research: Audio/Visual/Images

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Audio / Video

Online video resources from the University of Toronto Libraries
Media Archives, University of Toronto Libraries
Library and Archives Canada
The Audiovisual Holdings Database contains 441,000 hours of films, videos, and sound recordings held by Library and Archives Canada.
CBC Digital Archives
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
World Newsreels Online: 1929–1966
Internet Archive Moving Images Archive
Internet Archive Audio Archive
British Library Archival Sound Recordings
Library of Congress: American Memory
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Naxos Music Library

Images

See the Image and Visual Resource Collections guide for a comprehensive links to image and visual resource databases. A few major resources are listed below.

FADIS (Federated Academic Digital Imaging System)
FADIS is learning management and courseware system developed for image based teaching of art and architecture. The goal of FADIS is the creation of a common repository for education and research available to contributing institutions
Ad*Access
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
American Memory
ARTstor
British Library Online Gallery
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Gallica
Images Canada
Images of Christian Art

New York Public Library Picture Collection Online

Photography: The World through the Lens (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
The Bauduin Collection of Photographs
British Admiralty Office Photographs
British Colonial Office: Photographic Collection
British Journal of Photography and Annual, 1854-1914
Early Rare Photographic Books from the Northwestern Museum of Science and Industry Collection
Early Rare Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Hill and Adamson Albums: photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848
History of Photography
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs
Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Royal Archives, Windsor
The Photographic News, 1859-1908
Photographs from the National Media Museum
Photographs from the Science Museum
Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
Records of the Copyright Office of the Stationers' Company: Photographs

Oral History

Oral history may be in manuscript, print, microform, audio, or video format. It may be identified through a variety of tools throughout this guide, using relevant keywords.

For example, to find oral histories in the library catalogue, use keywords such as the following with your subject:

oral history

oral histories

testimonies

interviews

You may then limit your results to 'online' or to a given 'format,' using the side menu.

Oral History Online
Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 329,400 pages of full-text by close to 10,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to over 4,200 audio and video files and almost 19,000 bibliographic records.

Visual History Archives
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
The Visual History Archive (VHA) is an online portal from USC Shoah Foundation that allows users to search through and view nearly 52,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide, and the 1937-38 Nanjing Massacre.
Canadian Oral History Association
Columbia University Oral History Office
Historical Archives of the European Union - European Oral History
Oral History from the British Library
South Asian Oral History

Credits

Thanks to Whitney Kemble for selected audio resources.

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