Research Librarian
Images in Digitized Archival Collections
These collections usually contain different kinds of sources relevant to a common subject, including illustrations and photographs.
- Amherst College Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowOpen access repository for digitized archival collections from Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. Digitized images include photographs, manuscripts, books, and more.
- Digital CommonwealthPrimary source documents from the collections of museums, libraries, and archives across Massachusetts.
- Smithsonian InstitutionGallery of digitized collections held by the Smithsonian.
- Making of the Modern World (1450-1914) This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials (including broadsides and pamphlets, serials, and monographs) tracing British and US economic history from 1450-1914.
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice (1490-2007) This link opens in a new windowThousands 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 & Gender This link opens in a new windowArchives 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 (Part 1 and 2) and Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century (Part 3).
- North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowAutobiographies, biographies, publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files of indigenous people from across North America.
- Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 This link opens in a new windowDiaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary from the 1960s.
- Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowSearchable archive of leading women's interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st.