Photographs
City of Toronto Archives: Image Search
Hundreds of photographs from Toronto's history. Accessible by keywords or dates.
Corbis: Stock Photography and Pictures (Rights managed, royalty-free images)
Features an excellent subject search. Images can be enlarged, but have an embedded watermark.
Getty Images
Commercial site. Comprehensive collection of image and stock illustration spanning everything "from
conceptual rights managed,
and royalty free
creative images to up-to-the-minute editorial coverage"
Glenbow Museum (Calgary): Archival Photographs
Catalogue containing 86,000 historical photographs, illustrations, cartoons and posters documenting the people, landscape and development of the Canadian West from the 1870s to the 1980s.
LIFE Photo Archive
Claims to provide "millions" of photographs from Life Magazine from the 1860s to 1970s. Most were "never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google." Searchable by keyword. Browsable by decade or subject eg people, places, events etc.
Multicolr Search Lab Flickr Set
Allows access to over 10 million Creative Commons Flickr images for photographs. Searchable by colour.
NASA Image Exchange
Provides access to NASA's online multimedia collections. Searchable by keywords.
New York Public Library Digital Image Collections
Offers the New York Public Library’s unique holdings such as historic maps, rare prints and photos, illuminated manuscripts.
Photomuse
A rich photography database that includes the work of artists such as Atget, Bellocq, Moholy-Nagy and Wegman, etc. Hosted by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the International Center of Photography (ICP)
A variety of digital collections including photographs from late 19th century Siberia and photography from California (some aerial)
Time-Life Pictures
Collection of American photo-journalism