English 102 - Ferret: Primary Sources/Visual Texts

• Advertising Resources - Includes links to a number of sources of advertising images from the 19th and 20th centuries.

• AP Photo Archive - Includes press photographs and audio dating back to 1826.[UW restricted]

• LIFE photo archive - Millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

• New York Public Library Digital Galleries - Source for historical images, maps and documents.

• Digital History: American Historical Images - an online collection of historical images hosted by the University of Houston in partnership with other institutions. The images are categorized in over 20 categories from advertisements to daguerreotypes to political history and more.

Here are some examples of Digital Archives and Collections that you may want to look at. For searching these sites, keep your keywords very simple and stay away from Boolean searches!

• Library of Congress Digital Collection: Digital collections include written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document American History. Make special note page that shows the collections organized by subject area. 
   
• Digital Public Library of America: DPLA is a major portal to digitized collections ranging "from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science" that illustrate America’s history & culture
   
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections: Access the digitized content (photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media) available from UW Libraries. 
   
• King County Archives: Search the archives of King County that have been digitized. May be of extra interest to those who are researching serial killers.