Finding Historical Photographs

Dreyfuss Library

Catalog

http://catalog.saes.org

Choose Webpath Express on left column to find websites with images on your topic

Ask a librarian for the collection of Life Magazine back issues.

Dreyfuss Library Databases– (password-protected)

http://research.saes.org

History Study Center

http://www.historystudycenter.com/home/home.do

Choose “multimedia”

Culturegrams (Photo Gallery)

http://online.culturegrams.com/gallery/index.php

World Conflicts (international)

http://www.worldconflictstoday.com/

SIRS Researcher (hot topics)

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-portal-res?id=SMD0564-0-6068

Historical Newspapers

http://hn.bigchalk.com/hnweb/hn/do/search

(great for editorial cartoons too!)

Oxford Islamic Studies

http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/

(Under Browse, choose images)

Free Web Sources

Google Search

Tips: Use your topic keyword, and the terms ‘images’, or ‘photographs’, or ‘photo archive’, or ‘historical images’, or ‘historical photographs’

Google Images

http://images.google.com

Google Life Magazine Photo Archive

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Government Sources

Library of Congress

American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Browse Collection

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Photograph

Prints and Photographs Division

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

National Archives – Online Exhibits

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/

Army Heritage Museum

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/index.cfm

Choose “Research Catalog”, and then “Photos”

Naval History and Heritage Command – Photo search

http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm