Research Guides: Anthropology: Images/Films

Digital Image Collections

ARTstor This link opens in a new window Digital images (over 1 million) in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and the social sciences.

Library of Congress Digital Collections Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.
Duke Papyrus Archive The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.
UM Museum of Anthropological Archaelogy The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Image Database includes photographs from original excavations, personal collecting, reference books and magazines, as well as images of artifacts within the Museum's collections.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Peabody Museum Collections Online provides access to approximately 700,000 object records and over 600,000 associated digital media records.
Smithsonian Anthropology Collection Digital Collections from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Online Exhibits Penn Museum online collections contains digitized images, archival films, historical records, cultural items and more.
NYPL Digital Gallery Provides access to 900,000+ images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
American Folklife Center The American Folklife Center provides online access to portions of their physical collections on a variety of topics related to life in America.

Primary Source Documents

Indigenous Peoples of North America This link opens in a new window Gain insight into the cultural, political, and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Mountain Voices This website presents interviews with over 300 people who live in mountain and highland regions round the world.

Online Film Resources

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Archaeology Channel The Archaeological Legacy Institute offers video and audio about various archaeology topics, and links to related sites.
Folkstreams Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures.
EVIA Digital Archive A digital archive of ethnographic video for use by scholars and instructors.
Moving Image Research Center
Travel Film Archive The Travel Film Archive is a collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films - many of them in color - that show the world the way it was between 1900 and 1970.

Sound Recordings

National Jukebox The National Jukebox freely provides access to recordings from the collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives.
Alan Lomax Sound Recordings The Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, from 1946 into the 1990s. Alan Lomax is most famous for his work in the penitentiaries, plantations, and lonely farms of the Mississippi Delta, where he made recordings traditional African American culture. He also made recordings in the remote communities of the Caribbean, Europe, and North Africa.

Anthropology: Images/Films

Images and Film

Digital Image Collections

Primary Source Documents

Online Film Resources

Sound Recordings