Creating Digital Histories: The History of Places in North America

Comprised of over 32,000 images, the collection focuses on Ohio University and the state of Ohio. Its coverage is 20th century.

This collection is widely regarded as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials in the United States. When received at the Newberry Library it was estimated at 2.5 million items, and well over a half-million unique postcard images.

A finding aid for the different Library of Congress collections and include postcards and other images. Some images are available digitally.

This collection preserves unique and engaging images of people and places in early twentieth century America. This site includes a link to the "United States Government Poster Collection."

This collection includes a significant number of postcards highlighting New Jersey’s rich history. They feature postcards of famous landmarks, cityscapes, and popular vacation destinations.

The landing page points to different collections, including poster and photographic collections and much more.

The collection of almost 18,000 cards consists of external as well as interior views of different libraries an other cultural institutions. The images are in color and black/white, vintage and modern, and is still growing. It includes postcards of buildings of public, academic, national, mobile, medical, museum and private libraries, reading rooms, catalog halls, etc.

Copley Library’s Special Collections holds a collection of over 6,000 postcards documenting local, national, and international places that were of interest to twentieth century travelers.

The period between 1898 and 1918 is considered the "Golden Age of Postcards." Most postcards were manufactured by high quality printers in Germany and Austria; World War I shifted the production of many cards to the United States, where quality diminished. The postcards in this collection were all produced during this time period.

A platform for historical digitized American magazines and journals. Rutgers has access to the collections from 18c and 19c magazines and journals. Can select specific titles to search.

Newspaper articles. Covers only the last 5 years. For older articles, go to Proquest Historical Newspapers.

It includes major newspapers from different cities. Check the newspaper titles and their coverage dates.

Includes every issue of the American magazine Vogue published from 1892 (its first issue) to one month ago, including all covers, articles, illustrations, advertisements, fold-outs, and anything else that appeared in the original edition.

A comprehensive digital image collection. You need to create a personal account to access many features offered by the database.

A collection of digitized monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides that illuminate the daily lives of women in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A collection of digitized primary sources documenting the development of mass tourism from the mid-19th through the 20th century. include travel diaries and journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, guidebooks, film, posters, postcards, brochures, maps, prints, and illustrations.