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Finding Images

Quality, Scholarly Images for Research, Publication; Scanning Recommendations and Copyright

Manuscripts and Early Print

Archive.org
Search the Internet Archive for images in digitized books.
Catalog of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Search through 3000 medieval manuscripts.
Manuscriptorium
Search through a digital library with over 5,000,000 images of manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, charters and other types of documents.

Holocaust Studies

USC Shoah Foundation - Visual History Archive
Find images related to the Holocaust and other genocides.

American History

Harper's weekly
Find scans from the American magazine Harper's Weekly, active from 1857-1912. Particularly useful for Civil War research..
Picturing U.S. History
Find resources and materials for the study of American visual history.

Britain and Ireland

USC Dornsife Institute for British and Irish Studies - Area Resources
Browse a list of area specific resources collected by the USC Dornsife Institute.

Posters

Soviet-era posters
Browse a collection of Soviet posters and other communist-related images that have been collected by a Flickr user.