The photo you want may be online, but it may not show up in a google image search. Try these databases to find exactly the slice of history you’re looking for.
American Memory from the Library of Congress: United States, Audio, Video, Music, Photographs, Ephemera
Pictorial Americana: Presidential Campaigns: Prints, Photographs, Politics
American Social History: Pamphlets, Journal Articles, Maps, Sheet music, Videos, Data Sets, Political Cartoons, Posters
Flickr Commons: Photographs, Postcards
LIFE Photo Archives: Technology, Art, Society, War, Science, Celebrity, Travel, Animals, Photographs
Shorpy: Photographs, 1900s, Industry, Society, Architecture
Smithsonian Images: Americana, History, Transportation, Science, Military
Civil Rights Digital Library: Civil Rights, United States, Photographs, Ephemera
Charles Cushman Photograph Collection: United States, Canada, Photographs, Landscapes, Americana, Industry
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: United States, Environment, Landscape, Flora, Photographs, Prints, Slides
Mid-Atlantic/Northeast
New York Public Library Photostream: New York City, New York, Photographs, Ephemera, Music, Postcards, Advertisements, Architecture
Old York Library: New York City, New York, Postcards, Photographs, Architecture, Maps
New York Real Estate Brochure Collection: New York City, New York, Architecture, Real Estate, Blueprints
Byron Collection, MCNY: New York City, Manhattan, Photographs.
Cornell University Library Photostream: New York, Prints, Coins, Architecture, Politics
Cabot Science Library : New England, Geology, Science, Landscapes, Geography
Vintage Maine Images: Maine, New England, Landscape, Photographs
Boston Public Library Photostream: Boston, New England, Photographs, Ephemera
Massachusetts Historical Society: Massachusetts, New England, Letters, Manuscripts, Photographs, Maps, Ephemera
Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts, Photographs, Postcards
Boston Historical Society Photograph Collection: Boston, Photographs, Postcards
Boston African Americana Project: Boston, Ephemera, Photographs
Brighton-Allston Historical Society Photograph Collection: Boston, Brighton, Allston, Photographs, Landscapes, Architecture
Cambridge Historical Society Photostream: Photographs, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge Photo-Scanning Project: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Photographs, Architecture
Lawrence Historical Society Photostream: Lawrence, Massachusetts, Industry, Photographs
Brookline Historical Society: Architecture, Brookline, Massachusetts, Postcards, Photographs, Slides
Watertown Library Photo Collection: Watertown, Massachusetts, Architecture, Movies, Photographs
Jamaica Plain Historical Society Photos: Jamaica Plain, Boston, Photographs, Advertisements, Yearbooks, Postcards
Digital Treasures: Western Massachusetts, Photographs, Berkshires
ImageMuseum: Western Massachusetts, Amherst, Postcards, Photographs, Ephemera, Postcards
Midwest
Chicago Public Library Digital Collections: Chicago, Illinois, Photographs, Architecture, Politics
A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World’s Fair: Chicago, Ephemera, World’s Fair, Pamphlets
Virtual Motor City: Michigan, Detroit, Industry, Photographs
Changing Face of the Auto Industry: Michigan, Detroit, Industry, Transportation, Photographs, Pamplets
Southeast/Southwest
State Library and Archives of Florida Photostream: Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Photographs, Ephemera, Folklife, Ocean
Texas Archive of the Moving Image: Texas, Movies, Film, Television, Industry, Politics
Charles L. Franck / Franck-Bertacci Photography Collection: Louisiana, New Orleans, Photographs, Architecture, Industry
West
California Historical Society: California, Architecture, Photographs
California Views: California, Monterey, San Francisco, Architecture, Landscapes, Photographs
Chinese Historical Society: California, Chinese, Artifacts, Archaeology
Korean American Digital Archives: California, Korean, Photographs, Letters
Whittington Photograph Collection: California, Los Angles, Photographs, Architecture
Los Angeles Times Photograph Collection: California, Los Angeles, Film, 20th Century, Photographs
San Francisco Memories: San Francisco, California, Photographs, Architecture
Middle East Photo Archive: Middle East, Egypt, Syria, India, Iran, Photography, Architecture,
The Latin American Library: Latin America, Central America, Mexico, Photographs, Postcards, Landscapes, Architecture, Ethnology
Hedda Morrison Photographic Collection: Australia, China, Germany, Photographs, Drawings, Technology, Art
American Institute of Indian Studies: South Asia, India, Photographs, Art, Architecture
Science and Medicine
Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library: Photographs, Illustrations, Nature, War, Illness, Medicine
Images from the History of Medicine: Medicine, Science, Illustrations, Photographs, Portraits
Computer Museum Collections: Computers, IBM, Oral History, Technology, Hardware
Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School: Photographs, Prints, Slides, Illness, Medicine
Eugenics Archive: Science, Medicine, Eugenics
Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School: Industry, Business, Posters, Photographs
Caltech Photo Archive: Technology, Computers, Science, Photographs, Artifacts, Illustrations
Patent Medicine Trade Cards Collection: Medicine, Advertisements
AIDS Poster Collection: International, Medicine, Public Health, Posters, Advertisements
Design/Fashion
Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes: Landscape, Design, Gardens.
Electronic Swatchbook: Australia, Fabric, Design, Textiles
Digital Dress: Clothing, Costume, Shoes
Entertainment
Emergence of Advertising in America: Advertisements, United States, 1850-1920
The Movie Title Stills Collection: Film, Cinema, Stills
Harvard Film Archive: Film, Cinema, Posters
Walt Whitman Archive: Poetry, Whitman, New York, Manuscripts, Letters, Audio, Photographs
Gospel Music: Gospel, Music, Photographs, Records, Sheet Music
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