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August 21, 2006

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, National Archives

Library link

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/sf-earthquake-and-fire/

Short description

Multimedia presentation about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Source website

http://www.archives.gov/

Copyright and usage conditions

http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/privacy.html#copyright


: 21 Aug 2006 17:27 |  Tags:        |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

American City, Photographs and Graphic Works in the National Archives

Library link

http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/

Short description

Selection of photographs depicting American cities from the early nineteenth century to recent times.

Source website

http://www.archives.gov/

Copyright and usage conditions

http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/privacy.html#copyright


: 21 Aug 2006 17:07 |  Tags:               |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

History of the American West: photographs 1860–1920, American Memory, Library of Congress

Library link

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html

Short description

Over 30,000 photographs drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library. The photographs, taken between 1860 and 1920, document the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes. The collection also features presentations on Native American women, L.C. McClure and Denver, and the 10th Mountain Division.

Source website

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Copyright and usage conditions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/copyres.html


: 21 Aug 2006 16:33 |  Tags:                |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

Small Town Life: Mid–Atlantic Stereoscopic Photographs 1850–1920

Library link

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/dennhome.html

Short description

12,000 photographs of the Mid-Atlantic states New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from the 1850s to the 1910s, from the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library.

Source website

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Copyright and usage conditions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/copyres.html


: 21 Aug 2006 16:18 |  Tags:              |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

San Francisco Earthquake Motion Pictures

Library link

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/sfhome.html

Short description

Twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. ‘Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster. Seven films describe the great earthquake and fire. The two later films include a 1915 travelogue that shows scenes of the rebuilt city and a tour of the Panama Pacific Exposition and a 1916 propaganda film’

Source website

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Copyright and usage conditions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/sfres.html


: 21 Aug 2006 16:16 |  Tags:            |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

Early Films of New York, 1898–1906. Motion Picture

Library link

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html

Short description

Forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress.

Source website

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Copyright and usage conditions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nycres.html


: 21 Aug 2006 16:13 |  Tags:           |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

Panoramic photos: taking the long view, 1851–1991

Library link

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/

Short description

Searchable collection of over 4,000 images taken from 1851-1991. The images feature American cityscapes, landscapes and group portraits and also include essays on the history of panoramic photography, selected photographers and shooting panoramic photographs.

Source website

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Copyright and usage conditions

http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html


: 21 Aug 2006 14:34 |  Tags:               |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

US Map Collections

Library link

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Short description

Online collection of over 14,000 of Theodore Horydczak’s photographs of Washington DC taken from the mid 1920s-1950s. Searchable by subject index.

Source website

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Copyright and usage conditions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thres.html


: 21 Aug 2006 14:30 |  Tags:         |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

August 17, 2006

American Shores, Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region, NYPL Digital Collections

Library link

http://www.nypl.org/research/midatlantic/index.html

Short description

The Mid-Atlantic region of North America (from New York south to Virginia) examined through maps created up to 1850. Includes many high resolution maps with a zoom facility and commentary.

Source website

http://www.nypl.org/

Copyright and usage conditions

Browse using the subject index. NYPL will not let us post live deep-links.


: 17 Aug 2006 13:44 |  Tags:      |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

US Immigrants, photographs

Library link

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgsubjectbrowseresult.cfm?alphaPos=I
Browse using the subject index. NYPL will not let us post live deep-links.

Short description

NYPL Digital Gallery has 311 images for immigration/immigrants which can be subdivided by nationality, period, port etc via the subject index.

Source website

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

Copyright and usage conditions

http://www.nypl.org/legal/index.cfm


: 17 Aug 2006 13:39 |  Tags:        |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

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