CCS National History Day 2020-2021
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On this page you will find links to websites containing primary source photos, maps, and music.
Photos
Ad Access
--more than 7,000 ads from 1911-1955.
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945
American Environmental Photographs
American Institute of Physics
Archives of American Art
-The Smithsonian Institution
Australian Images
- the National Library of Australia
Beinecke -- Exhibitions -- The Illustrating Traveler
--illustrations from North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895
British Columbia Historical Photographs Online
Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Canadian Heritage Gallery
Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature
--searchable database of online cartoons from the University of Kent at Canterbury
Civil War Photographs
Collage
--online database of 20,000 images from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery of London
Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
Digital Archive of Art
Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian
Egypt and the Sudan: 1905-1907 Breasted Expedition: A Photographic Study
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
The Gallery of the Open Frontier
Great Images in NASA Library (GRIN)
Historic American Buildings Survey/Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
History of Costume by Braun & Scheider
Images of England
Internet Archive Movie Collection
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (1860-1899)
Library of Congress Manuscripts
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(note: Onsite research is open to people above high school age)
Library of Virginia Online Photograph Collections
Maryland Historical Society Digitized Photograph Collections
Maryland Historical Society Photographs on Tumblr
Mexico from Empire to Revolution
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
NASA Space Image Libraries
National Library of Australia Documentary Image Collection
New Deal Network Library
New Deal Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
New Perspectives on the West
Northeast Historic Film: Film and Videotape of Northern New England
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Panoramic Photographs Collection
Persepolis and Ancient Iran
PictureAustralia
Portrait Gallery
- University of Texas
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
SouthEast Asian Images & Texts Project
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920, Library of Congress,
Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives
TV News Archive
United Nations Photos
United States Holocaust Museum Research Collections Photographs
Western History Photograph Collection
World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection, 1894-1896
World War II Poster Collection
Maps
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
--from the American Memory Project
Cartographic Images Home Page
--300 maps of the ancient and medieval world
Civil War Maps
--from the American Memory Project
Digital Maps from the University of Berkeley
--hundreds of historical maps of various countries
Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
Map History / History of Cartography
--guide and links from the British Library
Military Maps from the US Military Academy
--hundreds of maps for America's wars; click on Atlases to enter
OSSHE Historic & Cultural Atlas Information Page
--maps and cultural images from the University of Oregon; some but not all require Shockwave
Osher Map Library
--at the University of Southern Maine; includes online exhibits
Outline Maps
--free outline maps from Houghton Mifflin's Education Place
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
-- thousands of online maps, including hundreds of historical maps of the US and other countries
US State Topography Images
Music
American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
--from the American Memory Project
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
--from the American Memory Project
Civil War Sheet Music from the Stern Collection
--from the American Memory Project
Cyber Hymnal
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
--from Duke University and the American Memory Project
Lieder and Art Songs
--international
Lyrics World
--in English & Portugese
Shanties and Sailor Songs / Shantys und Seemannslieder
Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Genres
--links to music sites from Indiana University
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