PBS
Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage
Designed to support a study of women's suffrage in the United States, a primary source document set from the Library of Congress includes images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, political cartoon, and audio recordings...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Libraries and Librarians
This slideshow lesson focuses on using libraries and librarians as research sources. It explains what makes them excellent sources of information because of expertise and reference materials available; it also lists the cons of using...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: A History of Us Public Libraries
This exhibition tells the story of the American public library system, its community impact, and the librarians who made it possible from the founding of the first US libraries through the first one hundred years of service.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
A digital archive of media portraying Giuseppe Garibaldi, a nineteenth-century Italian military and political leader and hero. Collection includes interactive and animated panoramic lecture, newspaper illustrations, and prints from the...
Other
European Library: European Libraries: Buildings
Photographic collection of the buildings, with exterior and interior views, where the great libraries of Europe are housed.
Other
Europeana: The European Library: Treasures From the National Libraries of Europe
Browse an image database of art treasures selected from libraries across Europe.
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Iran
The Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas provides an outstanding collection of maps of the country of Iran. Also links to maps from other online sources.
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Iraq
The Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas provides an outstanding collection of maps of the country of Iraq. Also links to maps from other online sources.
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Israel
The Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas provides an outstanding collection of maps of the country of Israel. Also links to maps from other online sources.
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Japan
The Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas provides an outstanding collection of maps of the country of Japan. Also links to maps from other online sources.
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Korea Maps
The Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas provides an outstanding collection of maps of the country of both North and South Korea. Also links to maps from other online sources. PDF's (require Adobe Reader).
Other
Library of Congress: Abraham Lincoln Images
The Library of Congress provides numerous examples of photographs taken of President Abraham Lincoln. Identifies when the picture was taken and where it was taken. Describes the connection of photographs and Abraham Lincoln.
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Library Exhibit: Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition
A virtual library exhibit about free speech, focusing on the principles that unite Americans and the conflicts that divide them.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries: Seed Catalogs
Open a window into the world of botanical illustration by browsing this library of images reproduced on seed packets and seed catalogues from the 1830s through the 1930s. Flowers, vegetables, fruits, and related subjects included.
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Severe Storms Laboratory: Catalog of Images
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations.
University of Texas at Austin
Ut Library Online: Historical Map Collection
This extensive collection from the University of Texas Library Online of detailed maps of many regions of the Earth.
Other
C4 Molecular Library: Alkynes
The C4 molecular library has models of alkynes that can be rotated and examined in 3D. Choose viewer, select the hydrocarbon menu from CONTENTS and scroll down to alkynes.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Center for Digital Initiatives: Napoleonic Satires
A collection of over four hundred satirical prints (made in Britain and continental Europe) of Napoleon. Related historical essays on the prints themselves and on the cast of characters depicted in them round out the site. Also includes...
Northwestern University
Northwestern University Library: Hogarth and Eighteenth Century Print Culture
Browse this large collection of Hogarth's prints to find examples of all of his favorite subjects, including eighteenth-century views of London.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Illustrated Quixote
This resource provides a digital version of Brown University's physical exhibit. It features illustrations from numerous editions of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha. It includes essays written by Brown University's students...
University of Pittsburgh
Digital Research Library: Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction
This site contains hundreds of illustrations that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar).
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Hargrett Library: Rare Map Collection
The Hargrett Library at the University of Georgia offers visitors the opportunity to view images of over 800 maps that go back almost 500 years. Researchers get a first-hand look at the lives of early Americans with these original maps...
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Indonesia
The Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas provides an outstanding collection of maps of the country of Indonesia. PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Jordan
The Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas provides an outstanding collection of maps of the country of Jordan. Also links to maps from other online sources.
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