Photography - Historical Collections - Image Collections for Sciences and Social Sciences

Victorian - Late 19th Century

British Library. Early Photographic Illustrated Books. 1500 original print photographs used to illustrate Victorian books have been digitized at the British Library. See url: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/earlyphotos/index.html

Lantern Slide Collections

Magic Lantern Slides Collection
"There are about 1,500 magic lantern slides in the UHM Japan Collection, and these were the gifts of two donors: the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai 国際文化振興会 (KBS), a predecessor of the present Japan Foundation 国際交流基金, and the family of the Reverend Takie Okumura 奥村多喜衛(1865-1951)."
Burmese Lantern Slides
Smithsonian Institute. "These hand-colored lantern slides of Burma were taken by Willard E. Graves, an American missionary who served as principal of the Methodist Episcopal School for Boys in Rangoon from 1908-1913."
Egyptian Lantern Slides
Brooklyn Museum. Lantern Slide Collection 1870-1930s of major sites and monuments in Egypt.
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Image is Abu Simbel, Egypt, 19th century, Lantern Slide, digitized by Brooklyn Museum, US.

Photo & Negative Collections

Dutch East Indies Negative Collection
The MEMORY Collection
Frick Museum: Digital Image Collection
The Frick Digital Image Archive is an online resource that provides public access to the research collections of the library, museum images from the Frick Collection, and historical documents, photographs, and movies from the Frick Family archives. Digital file types include high resolution images, pdf documents, and video.
Gallica
Digitized manuscripts from the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris.
George Eastman House - Digital Collections
Numerous image collections concerning American Civil War, Developments in Technology, on this site.
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Gerald & Rella Warner Taiwan Negative Collection
LaFayette College Libraries. 369 items.
Gerald & Rella Warner Manchuria Negative Collection
LaFayette College Libraries. 298 items.
Getty Images
Free images
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For rights management see: http://www.gettyimages.ca/images/marketing/rightsclearance/RnC.en-us.pdf
History of American West 1860-1920
U.S. Government. "Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River."
National Archives
National Geographical Collection
Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences.
NDSU Collections
The visual images in the Institute for Regional Studies’ Photo Gallery cover almost every aspect of life in North Dakota and beyond. This sampling is only a small portion of the over 100,000 photographs preserved at the Institute.
Scenic Taiwan
LaFayette College Libraries. Taiwan no fūkō' (Scenic Taiwan) 台湾の風光is one of many photo albums published in the 1930s that depict different areas of the Japanese Empire. This particular volume was published in Wakayama Prefecture in or after 1938, though it appeared in a less censored form in 1934.
Taiwan Photographic Monthly
LaFayette College Libraries. 468 items. The Taiwan shashinchō 台湾写真帳 (Taiwan Photograph Album) was published monthly from November 1914 through December 1915, for a total of 14 issues. The 468 pages captured for this collection include reprints of photographs from other Japanese publications, and many unique photographs.