Images: images from history

"Images of America: A History of American Life in Images in Texts is a unique new resource cultivated from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning series of local history books. At completion, it will include over 1 million historical images and texts, celebrating the places and faces that give America its spirit and life. All of the images and texts have been indexed to provide an unprecedented level of access into the contents, enabling users to explore the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more."

All sorts of cool stuff relating to American visual culture.

French Revolution Digital Archive
A collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Photographs from the LIFE magazine photo archive, 1750s to today

Photographs from history organized by category (e.g, steampunk, ephemera) and by date.

"Selections from the Historic Clothing Collection, an archive of women’s clothing and accessories in the United States from 1800 to the present from a range of social classes. It is a resource for students and scholars of design, history of dress, material culture, art/literary history, and curatorial practices. Many of the items are donations from Smith College Alumnae"