Image Archives Online

I hope all these images are in the public domain but inclusion here does not verify that. Please independently verify the licensing status and attribution information before reusing the content.

Openverse Search Engine

https://openverse.org/

Archive.org

4.7 million photos

 https://archive.org/

British Library

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary

The Conway Library

contains almost 1 million photographs of world architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and manuscripts. 

https://photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/menu-item1/conway-library

David Rumsey Map Collection

https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/search/?license=2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C9

Graphics Fairy

https://thegraphicsfairy.com/

Library of Congress

holds more than 15 million items

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections

9,000 vintage images

https://www.flickr.com/people/31033598@N03/

Chicago's Newberry Library

Over one million digital items

https://digcoll.newberry.org/#/

New York Public Library Digital Collections

Explore 935,562 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

Old Book Illustrations

https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/

Smithsonian Open Access

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

USDA

https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/image-gallery/

Wikimedia Commons

a collection of 92,558,076 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Museum Collections

• Getty Open Content Program – 10,000 images from the Getty Museum Collection
• The Met Collection- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's online gallery includes public domain images of artwork. Choose "open access" search option.
• The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) – American art catalog compiled by the Smithsonian Institution. It has many reproductions of American paintings. However, it is known to have a number of factual errors, so it should be used with great care.

Washington State

Evergreen

(Omeka S)

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

https://www.northwestmuseum.org/collections/research-archives/

https://ferrisarchives.northwestmuseum.org/Collection/View/4  Palmer

University of Washington

https://content.lib.washington.edu/

https://content.lib.washington.edu/wastateweb/index.html

https://content.lib.washington.edu/childrensweb/index.html

(utilizes OCLC's CONTENTdm Software Suite, which was developed at the University of Washington by the Center for Information Systems Optimization)

Washington State Digital Archive

https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/

Washington State Historical Society

83,000 artifacts, 600,000 photographs, 65,000 pieces of ephemera, and over 8 million documents

https://www.washingtonhistory.org/research/image-services/

Asahel Curtis Collection

https://www.washingtonhistory.org/join-support/asahelcurtis/

Washington State University

https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/custom/collections

(CONTENTdm)

Idaho

Museum of North Idaho

https://museumni.org/

(Past Perfect?)

Idaho State Archives / Idaho State Historical Society

https://idahohistory.contentdm.oclc.org/

(OPENdm)

OF INTEREST TO GENEALOGISTS

https://www.familytreasuresfound.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1419339481432739/

https://deadfred.com/

https://www.facebook.com/deadfredphotos/

Native North American Indian - Old Photos

483K followers

Currently, there are 56,177 old photos in 294 albums, organized by Tribe or Nation. To view the albums, click on 'Photos' at the top of the page. Then click 'Albums.' Then scroll down to see the album of the Tribe you're looking for and click on the album name.

https://www.facebook.com/NNAIOP

The Photo Angel

https://www.facebook.com/groups/531012871224823

ART

Wikiart

https://www.wikiart.org/

.

Relevant Blogs:

Public Domain Review

https://publicdomainreview.org/

Open Culture

https://www.openculture.com/

American Civil War Genealogy Links

 

Civil War Photo Sleuth

find photos of Civil War ancestors, identify unknown photos, or contribute to our archive of identified photos. It's completely free.

https://www.civilwarphotosleuth.com/

Like our Facebook Page for the latest updates about the software.

https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarPhotoSleuth/

Search Ancestry American Military Records

Revolutionary War Civil War World War I World War II Other Conflicts

Facebook

Find my Civil War Soldier, Images or documents pertaining a Soldier or Unit

Civil War Records

https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarRecords/

CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS-Genealogy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/110342135826954/

Civil War Faces

https://www.facebook.com/groups/132514006891858/

National Park Service

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS)

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm

National Archives

Civil War Records: Basic Research Sources

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/resources

*NARA does not have pension files for Confederate soldiers. Pensions were granted to Confederate veterans and their widows and minor children by the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia; these records are in the state archives or equivalent agency.

 https://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/confederate-pension-records

US Department of Veterans Affairs

National Cemetery Administration

https://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/ngl/

Library of Congress

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/civil-war-and-reconstruction-1861-1877/

PHOTOGRAPHS

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/

The Blue and the Gray Pinterest Board

by Michael Williams

MAPS

Map of Civil War Battles

https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/civilwar/

MUSEUMS

Adams County Historical Society at Gettysburg

https://www.achs-pa.org/

https://www.facebook.com/achspa/ (Facebook)

BURIALS

10 Sources for finding Civil War Burials

https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/10-sources-civil-war-burials/

My Genealogy Quick Links

FINDAGRAVE [FB]

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60525

Search FamilySearch.org Find A Grave

https://www.findagraveforums.com/

Census

1790

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5058

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1803959

1800

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7590

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1804228

1810

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7613

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1803765

1820

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7734

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1803955

1830

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8058

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1803958

1840

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8057

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1786457

1850

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8054

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1401638

1860

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7667

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473181

1870

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7163

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1438024

1880

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6742

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683

1890 - destroyed in fire

1900

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7602

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1325221

1910

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7884

1920

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6061

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1488411

1930

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6224

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1810731

1940

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2442

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2000219

http://1940census.archives.gov/

Native American Census (overview at FS)

https://www.fold3.com/collection/native-american

U.S., Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 (overview at FS)

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1059

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2761958

Census Finder - many countries

http://www.censusfinder.com/

https://www.censusgenie.com/

Canada census

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx

Family Locket Census Cheatsheet

https://familysearch.brightspotcdn.com/56/a8/990d256c460dae7da45c77e82227/census-cheat-sheet.pdf

ANCESTRY [FB]

http://search.ancestry.com/search/

Yearbooks

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1265

(another yearbook search is e-yearbook - requires subscription but has lots of yearbooks - some that are not on ancestry. also check archive.org https://archive.org/details/texts)

https://www.e-yearbook.com/

Card catalog

http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx#ccat=hc=25&dbSort=1&sbo=1&

Passport search

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174

City Directories

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469/

Newspapers

https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/np_newspapers/

FAMILY SEARCH (Mormon-LDS site) [FB]

https://www.familysearch.org/search/

search for a family tree

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/find/name

research wiki

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page

US city directories

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Directories

search digitized images [which one of these is best??]

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/find [called "memories" here]

https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/ [search by place or date only?]

FamilySearch Digital Library

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/

Forms list

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Genealogy_Research_Forms