The Union County
Library System

Images and Photographs

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


  

AccuNet/AP® Multimedia Archive  Archive of more than 500,000 current and historical
photographs and graphics that can be searched by date, place, and subject.  More than 800
photographs added daily

  
 


                     Maps from Facts for Learning.  Choose Reference Library/Atlas.


Billions of indexed images from the Google Image Search.  Easy searching.

 

Facts for Learning Picture Gallery.  Look under the heading General Reference on the
Power Library menu. To access the picture gallery click on Grades 2-5 on top bar. 

 

     
  

Photos, videos, multimedia, Interactive sites from NASA
 

Yahoo! Search

Webshots

NASA's  Mars mission Images from Mars from Spirit and Opportunity robotic rovers
NOAA Photo Library National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Contains thousands of weather and space images, marine species, oceans and polar regions.
Images from Digital Librarian  Huge collection of image Links from Digital Librarian.  Librarian's choice of "best on the Web".  Arranged alphabetically rather than by topic.
Mountain West Digital Library Digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums and historical societies in Utah.  Fast searching.  More than 102,000 digitized items from more than 60 collections.  This collection will soon become regional including Nevada and perhaps Arizona and Idaho.
Music - University of Colorado digital sheet music collection.  150,000 items of materials originally published between 1890 and 1922.  Includes the music, lyrics, front and sometimes back of the sheet music.
MediaBuilder Clip art, backgrounds, web design samples, GIF tools

HISTORICAL
     Lewisburg, Union Co, PA Early settlement through the Civil War   Online material, Civil War resources and biographies; local newspapers from 1855-1892;genealogical material
     Old Lycoming County Photo Archives Scroll down to Old Lycoming County Photo Archives


Access to rare and important materials in the Library of Congress.  Multiformat collections of photographs, maps, prints, documents, sound recordings and film bring the treasures of the national library directly to you.  Includes African American history and culture, baseball, entertainment, Hispanic culture, inventors, maps, music, photographs, portraits and many more.

         
 
     Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs   Search the online catalog or search the special collections.  Almost 1 million images.

One hundred years of photography from the National Archives.  Includes a New Century,
The Great War and New Era, Depression, World War II, Post War America, Century's End


     Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives   Online documents, photos, sound and video.  Most of the documents are from the President's Secretary's file (PSF).  Includes the Safe Files, British, German and Vatican diplomatic correspondence; Also includes the fireside chats and biographical info.
     Lost Labor   Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980. A browsable "selection of 155 photographs excerpted from a collection of more than 1100 company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures. Many of the images document factories and jobs that no longer exist." Images may be browsed by category such as textile or automotive.
    
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Search or browse over letters, manuscripts, and public papers. The site also provides the full text of 1,750 manuscript documents related to the construction of the University of Virginia, a recently revised edition of a biography originally published eight years after Jefferson's death, quotations from his writings, and links to other Jefferson collections and organizations
    
Smithsonian Institution photographs, archives,     daguerreotypes, political photos, Americana.  Browsable and  searchable.
    
Time magazine's  selection of 80 events from 1923 that changed the world.  Includes Time covers with related stories from 1923 to the present.
     WWII Top Secret Aerial Photographs From  This site, created by the Aerial Reconnaissance    Archives (TARA) at Keele University in England, will eventually provide access to over 5.5 million aerial photographs taken over occupied Western Europe during WWII. Aerial photographs taken by the Germans during WWII and until recently was classified NATO property, will also be available for viewing on this site. Aerial images include the Allied invasion of Normandy, the Bismarck hiding in Norway, and the Auschwitz concentration camp.


                                                                     

6/01/07 reference@publibuc.org   570-523-1172