Digital Libraries - DHC 401 - Honors Capstone Seminar - LibGuides at Central Washington University

Digital Document Libraries

Digital libraries can provide you with primary documents about what was happening at times throughout history. Here are some recommended websites and meta-searchers:

American Memory
Includes a variety of content from events in US history, ranging from documents, oral histories, videos, images, and other formats
HathiTrust
These materials are in public domain and openly accessible. Access to thousands of classic books that have been digitized.
Internet Archive
"Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more."
Making of America
Primary documents through American history.
NYPL Digital Collections
Digitized art, documents, images and more.
Wayback Machine
Looks at websites from the past. This is a good way to see what a website used to look like.

Free Online Images

Artchive
Contains "2,000+ scanned images of fine art, historical background on art and artists, theory and criticism, and rotating "gallery" exhibitions."
Art Cyclopedia
Searches over 8,700 artists from 2,600 art sites indexed by the site.
Creative Commons
Web Gallery of Art
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 8,000 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available."