Collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe.
Associated Press photographs, charts, illustrations, stories, audio clips, etc. from the 1800s and updated daily. Searchable on multiple criteria (e.g., time, people, concept, captions, text, etc.).
Scholarly primary-source collection of adult comic books and graphic novels covers the full spectrum of this visual art form from around the world; with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism.
Taking as its subject Victorian London, the content ranges from salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thor...
The only international, cross-genre index of visual sources of music, dance, and theatre, designed to assist performers, historians, librarians, instrument makers, record manufacturers, and book pu...
Primary source materials covering the First World War; covering experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of a conflict; propaganda and recruitment; and visual perspectives.
Primary source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, includes objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs and playbills.
Digitized collection of printed ephemera (Bodleian Library in Oxford, England), documents various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.