Image and Sound Databases

Below are links to photos, audio and video resources.

 

 
Ad*Access Project
 

 
 
 

 
Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
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Aerial Photographs of Northern California
 

 
 
 

 
A collection of scanned air photos from the collection of the Earth Sciences & Map Library.
Geographic area covered: Northern California
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American Memory Motion Pictures Collections (Library of Congress)
 

 
 
 

 
A gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Includes a sampling of early American films, including works by the Edison Company, recordings of vaudeville and other popular entertainments, early animated films; recordings of early 20th Century presidents, and scenes of American work and leisure, 1894-1915.
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
 

 
 
 

 
Consists of more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical Library of Congress collections. The primary source and archival materials relating in the project cover topics from art and architecture to performing arts to technology and applied sciences.
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American Museum of Photography
 

 
 
 

 
Iincludes over 5,000 images from daguerreotype portraits to Ansel Adams.
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American TV Ad History & Showcase
 

 
 
 

 
Site devoted to "classic" advertisements 1940-1970. Includes an archive television advertisements available for viewing online or downloading.
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Cities and Buildings Database
 

 
 
 

 
A collection of over 5000 digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages to the Parc de la Villette. Users can now search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.
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COMPASS
 

 
 
 

 
Feature around 5,000 objects that reflect the range of the British Museum's collections.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education
 

 
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Provides access to collections of educational resources, earth data sets and imagery and other support systems for teaching and learning about the Earth system.
 


 

Digital Scriptorium
 

 
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An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Among the participating institutions to this project are the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, Columbia University and the Union Theological Seminary.
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Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
 

 
 
 

 
Over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials is drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
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EQIIS (Earthquake Image Information Service)
 

 

 

 

 
Includes more than 10,000 images of earthquake engineering damage from over 250 destructive earthquakes worldwide. Images from late nineteenth century to the present.
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Feedroom
 

 
 
 

 
A portal to streamed video clips of news, entertainment, sports, and business information. Includes links to Reuters and NBC News feeds online.
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Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library
 

 
 
 

 
Contains 1000 images based on Professor William G. Godden's 30 years of teaching structural analysis, structural design, and architectural engineering, during which time he photographed many structures throughout the world for the express purpose of illustrating particular facets of structural theory, response, or design.
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Google Image Search
 

 
 
 

 
Database of over 425 million images.
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Great Buildings Online
 

 
 
 

 
Gateway to architicture around the world and across history. Documents 1000 buildings and hundreds of leading architects.
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Helios: Photography Online
 

 
 
 

 
Online collections ofmore than 1500 images from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography Collection.
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History and Politics Out Loud
 

 
 
 

 
A multimedia database documenting and delivering audiorecordings relevant to American history and politics. Includes speeches and other addresses by US presidents and other political leaders.
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History Channel Speech Archives
 

 
 
 

 
Online audiorecordings of speeches and other addresses by international political leaders; on-site recordings of notable historic events.
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Images of Historical Earthquakes: The Jan T. Kozak Collection
 

 
 
 

 
Contains 875 images of historical earthquakes. Images are accessible chronologically or by countries or region.
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Internet Moving Images Archive
 

 
 
 

 
An online archive of "ephemeral films," including films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. Includes advertisement and publicity films, educational films, government propaganda, and other historically important moving image materials.
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Kidder Smith Slide Archives on American Architecture
 

 
 
 

 
Selected imagesof from the 3400 slides in the Kidder Smith Slide Archives at MIT. The slide archive systematically covers 805 buildings from the pre-Columbian period to 1978 and includes sequences of 6 to 10 or more slides for some buildings. Approximately 2000 of the slides document mid- and late- 20th century buildings, with special attention to the 1950s and 1960s.
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Library of American Broadcasting
 

 
 
 

 
The Library of America holds a wide-ranging collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files devoted exclusively to the history of broadcasting. Site includes an online sampling of vintage radio commercials and an online archive of historic photographs related to radio broadcasting.
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Living Room Candidate: Historical Presidential Campaign Commercials
 
1952 - 2004  
 

 
An archive of historic and current political advertisements from television and the internet. Most clips include transcripts.
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MOAC (Museums and Online Archive of California)
 

 
 
 

 
Contains a selection of images from 7 California museums and libraries including the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Covers all time periods. [Note: This collection can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
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Newsfilm Library
 

 
 
 

 
A partial online catalog of the Fox Movietonews newsreel collection (Century Fox Film Corporation) at the University of South Carolina. The Newsfilm Library includes all Movietonews reels from 1919-1934, as well as the complete newsreels and all associated outtakes from September 1942 through August 1944.
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Online Archive of California (OAC)
 

 
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A searchable and browsable resource that brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Contains over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections. Images are organized into thematic and institutional collections, such as historical topics, nature, places, and technology.
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Perseus Digital Library
 

 
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A collection of more than 500 primary and secondary texts on the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Also includes images of vases, sculptures, buildings and other art and archaeological works.
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Real Guide
 

 
 
 

 
A portal to streamed video clips of news, entertainment, sports, and business information.
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Vincent Voice Library
 

 
 
 

 
Index to the Vincent Voice Library, a collection of speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts, etc. by over 50,000 people, recorded over the last 100 years.
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Working Women, 1870 - 1930
 
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Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image collections. Explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Documents working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygeine, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues. When completed, the collections will contain more than 2200 books and pamphlets, 1000 photographs and 10,000 pages from manuscript collections.
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