During his long and distinguished career, anthropologist Joel Martin Halpern has worked in many areas of the globe including Laos, Lapland, and the Balkans. He was able to turn his dissertation at Columbia University into his first book (A Serbian Village) and since that time he has returned for fieldwork numerous times. This digital collection from the Credo Project at the University of...

Photo collections are a great way to visibly document the story of colleges and universities. This collection from Kalamazoo College covers every aspect of the school's past, including ribbon cuttings and formal events. Currently, the site contains over three hundred photographs and visitors can view them by date or subject. The best way to get started is by looking over the Recent Submissions....

Anyone can type in a simple image search into Google, but this new initiative sponsored by both LIFE and Google takes these searches to a whole new (and rather interesting) level. Working together, the two businesses brought together several million images from the 1750s to the present day. Many of the images have never been seen before, and it's quite a bit of fun just to look around their...

Located in the South Yorkshire region of England, the city of Sheffield was synonymous with the production of cutlery and heavy manufacturing for several hundred years. In recent decades, much of the manufacturing moved elsewhere, and the city has become known as the setting for the popular film The Full Monty, and such music groups as Def Leppard, Pulp, and the singer Joe Cocker. Those persons...

What is this place, this Priest Lake, Idaho? It's a resort, it's a way of life, and it's a special area to many Idahoans. This digital collection from the University Idaho Library was made possible via the holdings of the Priest Lake Museum Association. The 380 photos here depict family, community, and business life in the Priest Lake area from around 1880 to 1950. The images bring this certain...

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, the late Harold Washington made history in 1983 when he was elected mayor after receiving 51 percent of the vote. Given the city's racial segregation and at times tumultuous race relations, the victory was considered a major accomplishment in the annals of Chicago history. Drawing on the collections held by the Chicago Public Library, this online...

The Museum at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute may currently be closed for renovation (until July 4, 2014), but in the meantime digital collections from the Library at the Clark are still available online. The Library's special collections are diverse and include formats such as artists' books, photographs, clippings, digitized books, archival finding aids, and ephemera. One important...

Steven Enich was a Serbian-American lawyer who practiced primarily in Wisconsin for many decades. He was also quite the photographer, specializing in photographs of buildings with great significance to the Serbian Orthodox community. He made a number of visits to the former Yugoslavia to do just that and he amassed over 5,000 slides. After he passed in 2004, his widow donated much of his work to...

The University of Central Arkansas has thousands of photographs that document the state's rich cultural history. This digital collection offers up online finding aids that cover 32 different thematic collections. While you can't search a comprehensive archive, interested parties can look through the aids, which do in fact contain hundreds of lovely photos. Collections include Black History,...

At this website, visitors can enjoy selected digitized images from the collections of St. Andrews University Library, which, in its own words, "holds one of the largest and most important collections of historic photography in Scotland", due in part to the friendship between Sir David Brewster (Principal at St Andrews from 1838 to 1859) and pioneering photographer William Henry Fox Talbot. The...