Photograph Collections
Pacific Northwest

The Black Experience in Boise/ The Black Church and Kinship Networks.
102 slide collection, accompanied by one cassette tape and some printed material. Held
at Boise State University Library.

British Columbia Archives Visual Records
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-29DBB5B/visual/visual.htm
Contains over 110,000 historical photographs and is searchable on the web.

A community of Women in Pullman, by Paula Dewalt Farmer. Pullman: Washington State University, 2000. Thesis (M.F.A.). Includes 20 slide portraits of African American women.

King County Snapshots; a Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities
http://content.lib.washington.edu/imls/kcsnapshots/index.html
These historical photographs are collected from twelve cultural heritage organizations located in King COunty. This material is also available on the MOHAI site and through the University of Washington digital images collection (see below).

Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
http://www.seattlehistory.org/search_page.cfm
MOHAI maintains a searchable historical photographs database, containing a wide range of subjects in and around the Seattle area.

Oregon Black History Project Photographs Collection
174 photographs, dating from ca. 1850 to 1960. Held at the Oregon Historical Society.

University of Washington Digital Collections
http://content.lib.washington.edu/
An ever-growing collection of historical photographs covering the Pacific Northwest in its entirety.

Vancouver Public Library Historical Photographs Collection
http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/photos/photoagree.html
This collection is in the process of being digitized, with 85,000 searchable online out of a collection of over a quarter of a million images.

National

Digital Schomberg; Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/main.html


American Memory; Historical Collections for the National Digital Registry
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
These digital collections are rich in historical photographs concerning the African American experience. Collections of particular note include:

  • African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
  • America From the Great Depression to World War II
  • American Women
  • Civil War Photos
  • First American West
  • The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
The Library of Congress continues to build this national digital registry.

Making of America (MOA)
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
Cornell University Library is constructing a very large, thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.