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Enormous number of links to portraits in the UK National Portrait Gallery.

Build your own face from the selections of eyes, noses, chins, hats etc... Each illustration is taken from portraits which are part of the collections of Museums Sheffield. (UK)

* Lawrence Royal & Cabinet Collections The Lawrence Collection consists of 40,000 glass plate negatives from 1870-1914. The images were produced commercially and capture topographical scenes of that period throughout Ireland. The entire Lawrence Royal collection (10,784 plates) and part of the Lawrence Cabinet collection (2,040 plates) are available here to view online. * Poole Whole Plate Collection The Poole collection comprises 65,000 glass plate negatives and was created by the family firm of A.H. Poole in Waterford between 1884-1954. The majority of images in the collection are studio portraits but the Poole Whole Plate subset which consists of 5,119 images, reflects the diversity of the collection with studio portraits, social and political events and also images of architecture and industry in the south east of Ireland. * Independent H Collection The Independent Newspaper collection of some 300,000 images, is made up of glass plates, plastic negatives and a small number of prints. The Independent H collection is a subset of the collection and contains 3,250 glass plates negatives dating from 1912-1936. It provides a record of many aspects of 20th century Irish life, and is particularly strong in the coverage of politics and sport in Ireland.

A wide collection of images and documents (mainly newspapers, I think) on Irish life in the C19th and C20th.

Photos of New York City from the Life Magazine collection

A well-maintained and thorough collection provided by the US National Library of Medicine.

Digital collection of portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. Coverage: 15th to 21st century.

'The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.'

Might be useful for lesson activities or research practice.

A rare find at Tel Dor, Israel. Alexander the Great identified as the engraved image on gem, believed to have been commissioned durring the Hellenistic period in history.

Over 700 daguerreotypes (early photos) from the period just before the US Civil War.

Great sight for primary source documents/personal war veteran stories

historic photographs with silly captions

That's awesome. I love it as much as www.historicaltweets.com. I'm definitely using those images for my work computer desktop background! :-)