On these pages you will find digital images from the Chicago Public Library’s special collections. Highlights include construction views of Millennium Park, a visual record of Civil War battlefields, photographs of Harold Washington, documents from the Chicago Renaissance and pictures of Chicago neighborhoods.

Digital Past, based at the North Suburban Library System , offers a treasure trove of photographs, postcards, diaries, oral histories, documents, movies, interpretive exhibits, and other historical materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cu

Allows you to search digital collections that received support from the Institue of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

More than a million digital images.

Over 600,000 images digitized from the collections of the New York Public Library.

Significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, and photographs.

Content documents political and cultural events important to American history.

Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, (34 vols) The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Including ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles.

Collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches, the Uffizi, and the Louvre and archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.

A digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

One of the largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. AP photographers have captured the greatest moments in history, news, sports and entertainment.

Includes the Chicago Tribune (1890-1985), the Chicago Defender (1905 -1975), and the New York Times (1850-2001). Use the "more options" feature to limit to illustrations or photographs.

Includes 55,000 images captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers of the Chicago Daily News.