The Digital Public Library of America brings together photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Users can browse and search the DPLA’s collections by timeline, map, format, and topic; save items to customized lists; and share their lists with others. Users can also explore digital exhibitions curated by the DPLA’s content partners and staff.
A collection of ephemeral video materials (industry, advertising, and educational films ) from the 20th century. The Internet Archive has digitized almost 2,100 of the films in the Prelinger Collection of which there are over 3,600 flims.
This collection of newsreels from 1929-1967 was created by Universal City Studios. It was produced twice a week and covered a wide variety of political and social topics.
