See also "Visual Archives at Yale" under the "Archives at Yale" tab.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Database contains materials from NYPL's collections, featuring prints, photographs, streaming video, manuscripts, etc. Many photos are public domain.
Library of Congress - Images and Maps
To search photographs, maps, etc. use the pull down menu to select the type of image you would like to see
American Museum of Natural History - Digital Collections
Contains over 200,000 images which document the ethnology collections from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, and has made these images accessible via the Internet. Division has also digitally imaged the Andean archaeological textile collection. The search is divided into Mexican/Central and South American Ethnographic Collections.
Armazém Memória
Videos from several different archives in Brazil whose aim is to preserve the historical memory of the Brazilian people.
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Audios de Perón - 10 años - Vence al tiempo
Contains audio files, images and video of Perón, Evita, and other political figures from Argentine history.
Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano
BDPI is a project of the Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica (ABINIA). Its objective is the creation of a portal which provides access, from a single search point, to the digital resources of all the participating libraries. Highlighted digital collections in geography and travel, periodicals, music, and tales and legends.
Brazil Explained in 100 Images
Cantos Cautivos
An archive that compiles songs and experiences around songs that were written, sung and listened to in political detention and torture centres in Chile during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Cantos Cautivos is the first online resource providing content related to music and dictatorship in Latin America.
Early Latin American Photography
Blog for those interest in early Latin American photography.
Finding Open Access Images (Penn Libraries)
Free Music Archives : Latin America
Cumbia, Salsa and Tango
Getty Images
Find high resolution royalty free images, editorial stock photos, vector art, video footage clips and stock music licensing at the richest image search photo library.
Jean Baptististe Debret. Facsimile dos 3 livros, colorido e preto/branco
Johann Moritz Rugendas: Wikimedia Commons
Juan Mauricio Rugendas: Artcyclopedia
Latin American Library Image Archive (Tulane)
The Latin American Library's Image Archive, one of only a handful of such collections in the United States, holds over 55,000 individual images from virtually every country in the region. Holdings of Tulane University.
Lomax Collection - Library of Congress
The entire body of Lomax material at the American Folklife Center encompasses more than 100 collections and includes 700 linear feet of manuscripts, 10,000 sound recordings, 6000 graphic images, and 6000 moving images. Includes materials on the Caribbean and Latin America
Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
Hundreds of photographs and prints, in albums and rare published volumes, present the territories and countries associated with Portugal and Spain in the New World, from Mexico to Argentina, and parts of the Caribbean.
Mexico: From Empire to Revolution
Exhibit drawn from the collection of the Getty Research Institute. Reproduced in the digital resource are cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, albums, postcards and other forms of photography. The Photographers represented are either Mexican or European or North American.
Radio Internacional Feminista - FIRE
Audio files, photos and videos on women's rights.
Rede da Memória Virtual Brasileira
Rugendas e o Brasil by Paulo Diener
Slavery Image Collections
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. These films were made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and consist of actualities filmed in the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines, showing troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other war-time events. The Special Presentation presents the motion pictures in chronological order together with brief essays that provide a historical context for their filming.
UT-LANIC - Music
Resources for music including music archives.
UT-LANIC - Photography
Resources on photography including photo archives.
WorldImages Kiosk (California State U)
The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has just been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.
