History: America: Images and Maps

The AdViews digital collection provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s.

The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA.

A digitized collection of posters created by local artists and activists, collected by the Oakland Public Library since 1966.

Approximately 175,000 digitized images capturing life in America between 1935-1944. This blog post provides more information about the collection and how to access it.

Approximately 650 drawings by Joseph Becker and his colleagues, nineteenth-century artists who worked for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly.

The photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies.

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.

Millions of Life magazine photos dating from the 1960s through the 1970s

Library of Congress collections, not all images available online

The 525 items in this collection comprise a Propaganda Poster collection primarily consisting of images from 1914-1945, the start of World War I to the end of World War II.

Currently contains over 2 million records with 280,000 online media such as images, sound files, videos, and online collections including the Archives of American Art.

Digitized collection of more than 150 comics; majority published by the federal government and others from the UN and state governments

"A selection of World War I and II posters from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division collections. Included are propaganda on purchasing war bonds, the importance of national security and posters from allied and axis powers."

Contains almost 90,000 digitized photographs from the history of the American West held at the Denver Public Library.

Map-based visualizations created by University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab. Topics presented so far include redlining, urban renewal, congressional elections, presidential travel, forced migration, overland trails, foreign-born population, and canals.

Historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean

Library of Congress collection of digitized maps

A wide variety of digitized maps, with strong collections in American Revolutionary War-era maps, Boston and New England maps, and Maritime Charts and Atlases.

A collection of “persuasive” cartography: ​more than 800 ​ maps intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs - to send a message - rather than to communicate geographic information.

This series consists of published maps of most countries and world regions. Included are base and briefing base maps; maps depicting terrain, sociological, transportation, political, and economic features; maps depicting administrative, military, and treaty boundaries; maps of urban areas; and maps showing ethnic distributions or narcotics trade routes. Also included are thematic maps, charts, graphs, and organization charts relating to various topics of the Cold War, including the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the Vietnam War.

Library of Congress exhibit of political cartoonist Herbert Block, whose career spanned 3/4 of the 20th century.

Digital archive of the work Theodor Geisel did as a political cartoonist for the liberal New York City newspaper PM from 1941 to 1943,