Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America.
Views of American towns and cities and representations of historical events, scenes, places, and battles relating to the United States, from 1497 to 1899.
The first national architecture and landscape database of independent college and university campuses (...) nearly 2,000 places of historical significance on private college and university campuses and includes more than 4,300 images relating to these sit
ARC currently contains descriptions of 50% of the National Archives traditional holdings. Many of the records are described broadly at the record group and series levels. For some series, ARC includes specific descriptions at the file unit and item levels
Major outcome from a broad-ranging analytical survey of the ways in which the interior has been represented since the Renaissance in Western Europe and North America [sources textuelles et visuelles]
A wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives
Two sets of digitized photos: the 1,600 color images from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information and about 1,500 images from the George Grantham Bain News Service
Full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines between 1870 and 1925 ..... the Spanish-American war and subsequent American governance (approximately 1898-1910)
1,077 photographs of and by Jean Thomas during her travels throughout the eastern Kentucky mountains and the staging of the annual American Folk Song Festival [1880s-1969]
A free, publicly searchable Internet database of architectural and historical information and images for 35,000+ structures, mostly in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, including all those on the Philadelphia Historical Commission list of significant buildings, and the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission’s inventory of historic structures