LibGuides: History: Images and Sound

Image and Sound Collections

Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Library of Congress Digital Collections provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
The updated online encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and websites.
Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
A digital collection of text, audio, moving images, and software from libraries and museums all over the world in order to prevent digital artifacts from "disappearing." This non-profit provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

Jackson Purchase Digital Archives
The Jackson Purchase Digital Archives consists of selected collections of digitized images, documents and audio recordings found in the Murray State University Special Collections & Archives at Forrest C. Pogue Library. The collections represent the history and culture of the Jackson Purchase Area of Southwest Kentucky and Murray State University.
Europeana
Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums to provide access to millions of books, music, artwork, and more.
The Roaring Twenties
An interactive exploration of the historical soundscape of New York City during the 1920s.
World Digital Library
UNESCO's World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
African Online Digital Library
AODL provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. It brings together tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages, many of which are contained in curated thematic galleries and teaching resources.