Image Research Guide

Open access repository for digitized archival collections from Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. Digitized images include photographs, manuscripts, books, and more.

Primary source materials (including broadsides and pamphlets, serials, and monographs) tracing British and US economic history from 1450-1914.

Thousands of pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images documenting the varieties and legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective, and the continued existence of slavery today.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender covers the sixteenth to twentieth centuries in historical primary-source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, gender, and gender studies research. Sources include newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts, and pamphlets. Our access includes LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (Parts 1 and 2), Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century, and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

Autobiographies, biographies, publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files of indigenous people from across North America.

Diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary from the 1960s.

Searchable archive of leading women's interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st.