JRN 309 - Narrative Journalism: Image Resources

Historical collections for the National Digital Library, from the Library of Congress. 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.

Provides access to 1.25 million digital images and to more than 600,000 group- and item-level descriptions covering about 75% of the 14 million photographs, prints, posters, cartoons, and architectural materials in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division holdings.

From the Website - "NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, and vintage posters..."

Image collections organized by museum and discipline, ranging from the National Museum of Natural History’s images documenting the sciences and man’s place in the world, to the National Air and Space Museum’s photographs of air and space craft since the 19th century, to the National Museum of African Art’s images of the art, environment, and peoples of Africa.