"Creative Commons has officially launched CC Search, a search engine that indexes over 300 million images from 19 image collections, "including cultural works from museums (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art), graphic designs and art works (Behance, DeviantArt), photos from Flickr, and an initial set of CC0 3D designs from Thingiverse." All of the i
A part of the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, this site is dedicated to photographs chronicling Tampa Bay and Florida’s West coast from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The collection has nearly 15,000 photographs on topics such as African American history, Ybor City, cigar makers in the Tampa Bay area, and early forms of transportation in the area.
Chronicling the history of Central Florida, this site provides over 80,000 photographs of Central Florida. It also includes diaries and letters describing the transformation of Central Florida. Moreover, the site contains educational resources for teachers such as lesson plans.
A part of the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, this site is dedicated to photographs chronicling Tampa Bay and Florida’s West coast from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The collection has nearly 15,000 photographs on topics such as African American history, Ybor City, cigar makers in the Tampa Bay area, and early forms of transportation in the area.
As part of the State Archives of North Carolinia's continuing efforts to expand online access to the materials in its Military Collection, we are pleased to announce the availability for free online thousands of photographs from North Carolina military veterans and of the home front. These photographs are posted as low-resolution scans with complete descriptions on the State Archives' Flickr page. Specific collections have been set up of multiple albums of photographs from various sources and veterans for several wars, including WWI, WWII, Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
"From Shamoon Zamir, a literature professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, comes a "research archive of historical and contemporary photography from the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)," designed to be fully accessible to the public."
The collection is here: http://akkasah.org/page/frontpage/collections
Gordon, Contact Gary Saretzky, Archivist for Monmouth County. I know of no one more knowledgeable about photographs than he. Gary should be able to help with this.
Phone: 732-308-3771 ext. 5
Email: gary.saretzky@co.monmouth.nj.us
H-NJ EDITOR'S NOTE:
Gary is an excellent resource for general advice and referrals, and many of us have attended his workshops on varous aspects of photography over the years.
