Harlem press photographs dating from the 1940s through the 1960s document social, political, and cultural life in one of the most influential African American urban communities in the United States. During the mid twentieth century Harlem functioned as a major center of Black cultural and political activity, continuing the legacy.....
Postwar Clearwater civic organization photo archive, circa 1951 to 1952, documenting the clubs, veterans’ groups, political organizations, youth programs, and fraternal associations through which ideas of patriotism, citizenship, leadership, and public service were organized during the early Cold War. American Legion meetings, Boy Scout troops and camps, Elks activities, Junior.....
[Labor] Industrial rock drilling photograph archive documenting Gardner Denver and drill carrier machinery in factory, yard, and field settings, circa 1960s, recording how specialized drilling equipment was designed, serviced, and operated in steep-cut and tunnel construction environments. The group centers on crawler-mounted drills, compressor-fed hose systems, and rail-mounted heavy equipment.....
[Counterculture] Open City underground newspaper archive, an iconic Los Angeles countercultural journalism during the late 1960s expansion of the underground press and New Left activism. Open City was a weekly alternative newspaper covering politics, counterculture, and arts during the Vietnam War era. The paper gained national visibility through the involvement.....
Vernacular photograph album of an African American family in New York, circa 1940s–1970s, documents middle-class Black life in Harlem and upstate communities during a period shaped by wartime labor expansion, migration, and the early Civil Rights era. The images place the family within a broader historical context of African American.....
Women and civic institutions photo archive documenting the professional and volunteer labor supporting Clearwater, Florida during its rapid postwar expansion, 1951 to 1952, with photographs of nurses, teachers, blood bank workers, women's organizations, public employees, hospital auxiliaries, schools, arts education, and college recruitment. Made during a period when American culture.....
A substantial archive documenting the trucks, drivers, terminals, accidents, repairs, freight operations, and working life of the Michigan Tri-State Motor Express trucking company of Benton Harbor, Michigan, dating primarily from the late 1930s through the 1950s. The company grew from the Mammina Brothers transport business established by Joseph and Benjamin.....
Grose, Francis. Antiquities of England and Wales, 1773, a foundational eighteenth century antiquarian survey that documents medieval castles, abbeys, and architectural remains across England and Wales at a moment when systematic historical preservation had not yet emerged as an institutional practice. Compiled from Grose’s own field observations and drawings, the.....
English woman’s photo album documenting a year of work and travel in Apartheid era South Africa and Southern Rhodesia in 1954-1955, during a time when white colonies were well established during the consolidation of apartheid. Compiled by an English woman attached to the Over-Seas League, Torquay branch, and employed for.....
Fire department photo album, ca 1912, a visual record of early motorized firefighting that documents the transition from horse drawn apparatus to mechanized emergency response in California. The album centers on a small town department identified by the uniform insignia “CCFD,” capturing a moment when motor vehicles were beginning to.....
Hartford, Connecticut flood photographs documenting the March 1936 inundation of the city’s downtown commercial center during the Great New England Flood, a regional disaster that drove the Connecticut River to record levels at Hartford and caused severe damage across the Connecticut Valley. Identified views of the Connecticut General Life Insurance.....
Largo, Florida photograph archive taken by George Fulmer, c. 1951, documenting education, youth culture, housing, commerce, religion, and recreation as a citrus and farming community entered the first phase of its postwar transformation into a suburban city. Largo’s population and physical landscape changed rapidly after World War II as groves.....
Fire destruction of Trinity United Methodist Church on South 2nd Street in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, photographed during the active overnight blaze of December 21, 1968, in a dramatic sequential record of one of the borough’s largest twentieth century urban fires. The archive captures the church while fully engulfed, preserving flames erupting.....
[African American] [Photography] [New York City] Unidentified photographer, Harlem street scene photographs, circa 1951 to 1955 document African American urban life in Upper Manhattan during a period of postwar redevelopment and provide direct visual evidence of neighborhood architecture, commercial corridors, and everyday social activity. The images place Harlem residents within.....
Early 20th century Mexico real photo postcard archive documents urban development, regional architecture, and everyday life across multiple states during the final years of the Porfiriato and the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Produced between the 1900s and 1920s, the group captures both infrastructural modernization and persistent rural lifeways across.....
Collection of 43 original vintage photographs documenting the Public School Gardening Movement in Queens, New York City, 1916–1920, provides concentrated visual evidence of Progressive Era educational reform linking urban environmental transformation to child development and civic formation. Produced at the height of the national school gardening movement, which flourished between.....
[African American], [Harlem] A Glimpse of Harlem and South Bronx c. 1950s-60s Archive of 20 Photographs. Harlem and South Bronx, New York city. This archive includes 20 black and white silver gelatin photographs, each measuring 5" x 3.5". The photographs capture a busy afternoon in Harlem, as men and women.....
Mexico photo archive, group of 30 postcards dating from the early 1900s through the 1920s, documenting urban, rural, and cultural life during the late Porfirian and early Revolutionary periods. The material captures a wide range of environments and activities, including marketplaces, transportation systems, ceremonial performances, and natural landmarks, providing visual.....
Chelsea fire real photo postcard archive documenting the destruction of civic, religious, medical, and financial institutions in Chelsea, outside of Boston, Massachusetts, after the November 1908 fire, one of the most destructive urban fires in early twentieth century New England. This collection displays not only the ruined architecture but on.....
Photographers unknown. Harlem photographs (circa early 1900s–1940s). This group documents African American community life in Harlem across the early twentieth century, including education, music, recreation, and street activity within one of the most significant centers of Black urban life in the United States. The images record scenes of schoolchildren, musicians.....
Unknown photographer, Panama Canal Zone and local life photo archive, 1915, documents Panama during the first year after the canal’s opening to traffic and supports research into U.S. imperial administration, Canal Zone settlement, travel photography, military protection of infrastructure, and the visual ordering of colonial space. The Panama Canal opened.....
China family photograph album. 1930s–1960s. This album documents family life across major political transitions in twentieth-century China, including the Republican period, the years of Japanese occupation, and the early decades of the People’s Republic. The photographs record everyday experience across multiple regions, showing movement between northern, southern, and northeastern cities.....
Wichita Falls tornado photographs documenting residential destruction after the April 10, 1979 storm, in one of the worst weather disasters in Texas history. An unidentified photographer recorded the city after the storm passed, focusing on leveled subdivisions, broken walls, stripped trees, scattered lumber, and improvised messages left amid the wreckage.....
Portland flood photographs recording inundated streets, industrial buildings, freight trackage, and emergency response in the Vanport Flood of 1948, marking the reshaping of Oregon's then second largest city. The group centers Portland rather than Vanport itself, showing the working city under water at a moment when warehouses, bridges, rail sidings.....
The March 1936 flood in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, photo archive along the Ohio and Beaver rivers. Handwritten captions identify Bridgewater, Kent Street in New Brighton, the Monaca Bridge, “between Rochester and Junction,” cut banks, heavy ice, and a woman identified as Mrs. French. The dated views place the group within.....
