Native American Image Resources

Internet Collections

• American Historical Images on File: The Native American Experience
• THE AMERICAN INDIAN OBSERVED: Sketches and Documents From the Collections of the Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution's American Indian Heritage Month, November 1999
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
• The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 - Library of Congress
• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
• Bancroft Library Images of Native Americans
• California Heritage Digital Image Access Project
• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian Library of Congress American Memory Collection
• The Illustrating Traveler: Encountering Native Americans Yale
• Wanamaker Collection of Photographs of American Indians - Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University.

Yale Digital Collections

• Beinecke databases:

  • Digital Collections Database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/brbldl/ (20,000 images scanned from originals at Beinecke)
  • Photonegatives Collection Database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/photonegatives/  (21,000 images scanned from negatives or color transparencies)

• Visual Resources Collection:   http://insight.library.yale.edu:5000/BrowserInsight/BrowserInsight

Yale Databases:

• Image databases:
  • AMICA Library (90,000 digital images of works of art; via Insight)
  • ARTstor
  • Associated Press Photo Archive (AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.)

• Images included amidst other material:

  • American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
  • American National Biography
  • Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (1534-1850)
  • Evans Digital Edition (17^th & 18^th century America)
  • Grove Dictionary of Art
  • Harper's Magazine and Cumulative Index
  • HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1865)
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 - 2000

Selected collections of images:

• Google Images: http://www.google.com/images

• Historical / Cultural:

  • American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/  90+ collections from Library of Congress project
  • Connecticut History Online: http://www.cthistoryonline.org/index.html (14,000 images of photographs, drawings, and prints)

Directory of Digital Image Collections:

• Clearinghouse of Image Databases: http://clearinghouse.ltc.arizona.edu/search.asp

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Updated October 10, 2006