Memory Lane

    A trip down memory lane is never complete without looking through the old photo albums in grandma's closet. Here you will find a grand collection of links to vintage photographs, portraits of a time gone by. Nothing gives you a better window to the past than looking at a photo, a frozen chunk of time on a thin layer of paper. Many of these links have indexes and are searchable so you can find photos by checking out places and times. Open Grandma's photo albums and enjoy!

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    link button   19th Century Photos
    Photos of African-American [free] and Indian families taken during the 19th century.
    link button   Addison N Scurlock's Historical Images ~ D.C.
    Portraits of a City - Scurlock collection of images taken in Washington, DC.
    link button   Ancestor Genealogy Photo Archive
    A database containing vintage photographs.
    link button   AncientFaces
    A website for the exchange of ancestral photographs.
    link button   Benedicte Wrensted Photographs ~ Idaho
    A collection of Native Americans photographed at the studio in Pocatello by Benedicte Wrensted [the studio was later leased to Mrs. W. E. [Mary H. Cole] Garvey when Benedicte Wrested moved from the area].
    link button   CONTENTdm Collection
    Browse through digital collections of photos representing Historical Black Colleges and Universities [HBCU], digital collections of universities [e.g., Hampton, Tuskegee, and Tennessee State], and a potpourri of other images, including 'Grandma's Summer Home', and a sample beat that can be used in a hip hop song.
    link button   Cemetery Pics by Kate ~ Texas
    Photos of cemeteries in Houston and other areas of Texas. There are also some photos of cemeteries in Estes Park, Colorado, and Rawlings, Wyoming. The album contains some close-up photos of grave headstones and markers.
    link button   Common-place
    The Revolution in Print. Graphics in Nineteenth Century America.
    link button   Coty's Treasures
    Purchase copies of old snapshots, photos, portrait and group photographs, as well as old letters, postcards, documents, photo albums, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and similar items.
    link button   DeadFred
    Genealogy photo archive.
    link button   Family Old Photos
    This website contains over 18,000 photographs, representing over 33,800 surnames... and thousands of families...
    link button   Footnote
    Find millions of images of original source documents, free to browse.
    link button   Forgotten New York ~ NYC
    Photo archives of the 'forgotten' infrastructure of New York City.
    link button   Frank S Matsura Image Collection ~ State of Washington
    Searchable database of images from the Frank S Matsura collection. The images depict events in Okanogan, Washington, from the construction of the Conconully Dam that provided for the irrigation of thousands of acres of farmland, to the installation of a city street sprinkler in Okanogan to keep the dust settled on downtown dirt streets.
    link button   GenDisasters
    Events that touched our ancestors' lives.
    link button   Ghost Towns
    A ghost town is any place where people once lived, or are still living, that is a shadow of its past glory. Ghosttowns.com contains information about all types of ghost towns in the United States and Canada.
    link button   Jackson Davis Collection ~ University of Virginia
    Archive of photos, taken by Jackson Davis, documenting African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States.
    link button   Just A Joy
    "We are the link between reputable antique dealers and individuals who own these "orphaned" items and the families to whom they should belong."
    link button   Legends of America
    Filled with both vintage and current photographs, Legends of America focuses on small out of the way places and hidden attractions that appeal to the nostalgic and historic minded.
    link button   New York Public Library ~ Digital Gallery
    Images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
    link button   New York Public Library ~ Schomburg Digital Collection
    Images of 19th Century African Americans.
    link button   PastFaces
    A website for the exchange of ancestral photographs.
    link button   Penny Postcards ~ USGenWeb
    A USGenWeb Archives Web Site.
    link button   Photos From the Past ~ Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
    A means for the members of the SUVCW and other Allied Orders of the Grand Army of the Republic [GAR], and the general public to honor and preserve the memory of the men who preserved the Union 1861 - 1865. Submissions welcomed.
    link button   Portrait of Black Chicago
    Photos taken by John H. White from June through October 1973, and briefly during the spring of 1974. White, then a 28-year-old photographer with the Chicago Daily News, worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city's African American community, as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's [EPA's] DOCUMERICA project.
    link button   Portraits In Black
    A collection of rare and unusual photographic images of African American men in the service of the United States Army.
    link button   Prints and Photographs Reading Room ~ Library of Congress
    View photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections concentrate on the history of the United States of America {USA}.
    link button   SIRIS ~ Smithsonian Institution
    Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's image gallery.
    link button   Shorpy
    The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog"
    link button   Slavery Images
    The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.
    link button   Slavery Photographs & Images ~ About.com
    "This collection of slavery images provides a glimpse at slave life. The compilation includes photos, illustrations, and images of newspaper clippings."
    link button   Teenie Harris Collection
    Archive of Charles 'Teenie' Harris' photographs. The site requests help in identifying images.
    link button   University Libraries of South Carolina ~ Digital Collections
    Browseable collection of correspondence files, maps, papers, manuscripts, and other memorabilia.
    link button   Vanishing Georgia
    Photos of Georgia's past, including family homes, businesses, people, etc.
    link button   Wyoming ~ Independence Rock Video
    A video presentation of the site called 'Independence Rock' where thousands of emigrants travelling the Oregon Trail inscribed their names in the granite rock while encamped there.

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