Research Sites

British History Online

"British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research."

Eastern State Penitentiary

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Eastern State Penitentiary/

19th Century Bedford Gaol

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:02:22 GMT

19th Century Bedford Gaol

New York Public Library

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:56:44 GMT

New York Public Library

Digital Text Collections:

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969)
Surveyors of the American West
Walt Whitman Manuscripts
Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books

Digital Image Collections

A New Nation: The Thomas Addis Emmet Collection of Illustrations Relating to the American Revolution and Early United States History
After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture
American Popular Song Sheet Covers, 1890-1922
America's First Illustrator: Alexander Anderson
America's National Game: The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs
Art from the George Arents Collection on Tobacco
Asia and the Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs
Authors: Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Books by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Cabinet Card Portraits in the Collection of Radical Publisher Benjamin R. Tucker
Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938
Charting North America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others
Cigarette Cards: ABCs
Civil War Medical Care: Photographs from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection, 1861-1872
Claire Holt Collection of Indonesian Dance and Related Arts
Classic 6: New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s
Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
Customs and Costume: Surveys and Examples of National Studies to 1900
Dance in Photographs and Prints
Detroit Publishing Company Postcards from the Leonard Lauder Postcard Collection
Dress and Fashion: Design and Manufacture
Drugstore Photographs, Or, A Trip Along the Yangtze River, 1999; Lower Manhattan Block-by-Block by Dylan Stone
Dust Jackets from American and European Books, 1926-1947
Early Landscape Photography of the American West
Early Real Estate Insurance Maps of New York
Ellis Island Photographs from the Collection of William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration, 1902-1913
Empire and Regency: Decoration in the Age of Napoleon
French 19th-Century Bindings in the Collection of William A. Spencer
Gertrude Stein: Part of a Life in Pictures by Carl Van Vechten
Henry George Collection: Illustrations and Photographs
Historical and Public Figures: A General Portrait File to the 1920s
Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935
Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts
Illustrated Classics of Engineering from the William Barclay Parsons Collection and Others
Images of African Americans in the 19th Century
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Joseph Muller Collection of Music and Other Portraits
Lewis Wickes Hine: Documentary Photographs, 1905-1938
Marquees, 1997-2001: New York City Theatre Photographs by Christopher Frith
Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection Online
Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1856-1930
Mountjoy Prison Portraits of Irish Independence: Photograph Albums in the Thomas A. Larcom Collection
Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants, and Trees, 1550-1900
NYPL Digital Gallery
Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins's Cyanotypes of British Algae
On Stage and Screen: Photograph File of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection
Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco
Penny Plains and Two-pence Coloured: English Theatrical Portraits 1799-1847 in the William Appleton Collection
Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s
Photographs of General Motors Cars and Trucks, 1902-1938
Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States
Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
Presenting The New York Public Library: Drawings, Photographs and Prints
Publisher's Proofs and Related Work from L. Prang & Company
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
Samuel Putnam Avery Print Collection and Related Works
Staten Island in Vintage Postcards
Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, 1860-1942
Taking the Wheel: Manufacturers' Catalogs from the First Decade of American Automobiles
The Floating World: Japanese Color Woodcuts by Kitagawa Utamaro
The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs
The Pageant of America: Photograph Archive
Theatre Productions and Players, 1900-1957: Vandamm Studio Photographs
Turn of the Century Posters
Uniforms and Regimental Regalia: The Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Costume Illustration
United States in Stereo: In the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views
Walt Whitman Manuscripts
William Blake: Illustrated Books
World War I Photograph Albums and Postcards
Yiddish Theatre Placards: Buenos Aires and New York