Vintage Visualization

A man and his dog in goggles, and an airplane i.e. the perfect reason I go digging for vintage images. Via Library of Congress’s Free to Use Dogs Collection.

For images that now live in the public domain, there are more and more digital repositories where you can find amazing – let me say this again amazing illustrations and more to help inspire your creative side and or support your research in a visual way. Some of the items out there aren’t in the public domain yet, but you may be doing research say about Punk in Washington, DC in the 1980s, is there an online archive for that? Why yes there is!

I’ve been working within or at least inside of libraries for the last six years and I wanted to note that these visualizations have come in handy when developing creative projects or developing your research plans. I wanted to list a solid list of unique repositories and collections where you, yes you can find awesome freely available historic items. Look to universities and public libraries throughout the country to find location-specific digital archives – there are so many out there.

Here at Plymouth State University, we have

Digital Collections

https://library.plymouth.edu/digitalcollections

and now for my list –

UNH Digital Collections

https://www.library.unh.edu/find/digital

Library of Congress – Free to Use and Reuse

https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/?loclr=twloc

Digital Commonwealth – Massachusetts Repository

https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/

New York Public Library Digital Collections

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/