Digital Image Collections
Four African American women, Atlanta University, Georgia (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs)
- Umbra Search African American HistoryHistorical images, videos, books and more drawn from libraries, archives and museums throughout the U.S.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Digital sources, both primary and secondary, from libraries, archives, and museums.
- African American Community and Culture | Gallery | Smithsonian InstitutionSearch the holdings of the Smithsonian, including items held in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- Artstor Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA complete image resource in a wide array of subjects. Provides straightforward access to curated images from reliable sources that have been rights-cleared for use in education and research — you may use them in classroom instruction & handouts, presentations, student assignments, & other noncommercial educational & scholarly activities.
- Beinecke Digital Collections | Yale University LibraryThe Advanced Search option permits searching by genre (e.g., cabinet photographs).
- Digital Schomburg | The New York Public LibraryIncludes online exhibitions using images, full-length books and articles, manuscripts, and maps. Exhibitions focus on special themes such as Abolition of the Slave Trade, the African American Migration Experience and African American Women Writers of the 19th Century.
- DocSouth: Image Subject List for North American Slave NarrativesBrowse a subject listing of digital images included in the North American Slave Narratives. The collection is also searchable.
- DocSouth: Image Subject List for The Church in the Southern Black CommunityBrowse by subject digital images from The Church in the Southern Black Community project. A search option is also available.
- House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson CollegeThe House Divided Project at Dickinson College aims to create resources for teachers and students that will help bring alive and explain the turbulent Civil War era in American history. Choose subcategory "People" under "Collections" and search by Race.
- North Carolina Digital CollectionsThe North Carolina Digital Collections contain historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. The Collections are free and full-text searchable, and bring together content from the State Archives of North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina.
- Prints & Photographs Online Catalog | Library of CongressAn extensive collection of digital images of Library of Congress collections including photos taken by Gordon Parks, the Carl Van Vechten Collection including Harlem Renaissance celebrities, images from the personal papers of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, and more.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division | NYPL Digital Collections | New York Public LibraryBrowse individual collections or search across the site.
- Wikimedia CommonsA database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Other Collections of Interest
- Umbra Search African American HistoryHistorical images, videos, books and more drawn from libraries, archives and museums throughout the U.S.
- African-American Studies Research Guide:Open Access | Columbia University LibrariesThe Columbia University Libraries guide describes freely-available web collections related to African American studies.
- African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth CenturyThe New York Public Library Digital Library Collections (Digital Schomburg)
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Digital sources, both primary and secondary, from libraries, archives, and museums.
- Documenting the American South | University of North Carolina LibraryThis collection of documentary sources on the American South includes components on “North American Slave Narratives” and “The Church in the Southern Black Community.”
- Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of CongressThe online collection spans the years 1841-1964. The bulk of the material dates from 1862 to 1865.
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909396 pamphlets from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division that complement those from its Daniel A. P. Murray Collection.
- Internet ArchiveOnline library of texts, images and more.
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection | Cornell University LibraryMore than 10,000 titles pamphlets and leaflets that document the anti-slavery movement at local, regional, and national levels.
- University of Rochester Frederick Douglass ProjectThe project seeks to digitize all of the Frederick Douglass materials held in the collections of the University of Rochester Library. The work will be undertaken by undergraduates.