History: Europe: Images & Maps

150,000 photos dating from 1900 to the 1990s, from ten European News Agencies.

Includes over 2000 photographs taken in various parts of Europe before and during World War II.

This project, undertaken from 1908 to 1931 to photograph human cultures around the world, resulted in 183,000 meters of film and 72,000 color photographs from 50 countries. The collection is now housed at the the Musée Albert-Kahn, and most of the images are available online.

An online database of more than 13,000 political and social posters from the early 20th century to present.

More than 60,000 images from the German archives

Digitized collection of more than 300,000 historic photographs and images

Maps acquired by the U.S. Army Map Service during and after World War II.

Map portal with historical maps of Habsburg Empire and Austro Hungary.

Over 1200 photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris