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Archives Portal Europe Homepage
Archives Portal Europe provides you with a single access to find, browse and discover information on archives about Europe held by thousands of cultural heritage institutions from more than 30 countries. We continually grow and expand our content, adding more countries, more institutions, and more archival collections.
Archives Portal Europe provides you with a single access to find, browse and discover information on archives about Europe held by thousands of cultural heritage institutions from more than 30 countries. We continually grow and expand our content, adding more countries, more institutions, and more archival collections.
SOVA: Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives
Access 26,654 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, films, works of art and organizational records.
Access 26,654 descriptions of personal
papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral
histories, films, works of art and organizational records.
National Archives
Provides public access to the official records of the United States government, preserving documents that shape its history. Photographs, military records, maps and other records are available
The Quilt Index
Over 100,000 quilts from museums, documentation projects, and private collections, searchable by pattern, maker, time period, location, and thread color. The collection spans the early 19th century to the present and includes quilts made by Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, and thousands of unnamed makers whose work would otherwise exist only in family attics and museum storage.
Persuasive Maps | Persuasive Maps
Over 1,200 maps that were made to argue, not navigate. These are maps that distort scale to exaggerate threats, redraw borders to justify conquest, or color-code data to build a political case. The collection spans the 1490s to the present, covering wartime propaganda, commercial advertising, religious allegory, and political satire. Every entry includes collector's notes explaining what the map is trying to make us believe and how.
Japanese Print Search and Database
Over 223,000 Japanese woodblock prints from 24 museums, libraries, and auction houses worldwide. We can upload a photo of any print and the system will surface similar works across every collection in the archive, making it possible to compare copies held on different continents and track how prints changed across editions.
Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage
Over one million fashion objects from nearly 40 museums and brand archives across 13 European countries, searchable by designer, technique, material, and clothing type. The collection ranges from 18th-century silk mantles to contemporary runway photography, with historical accessories, sketches, pattern books, and fashion catalogues alongside the garments themselves
StoryCorps Archive
The largest born-digital collection of human voices ever assembled, with over 725,000 people recorded since 2003. The project was modeled after the WPA oral history interviews of the 1930s and inspired by Studs Terkel, who cut the ribbon at the first recording booth in Grand Central Terminal. The full collection is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Co
The Great 78 Project – Community Preservation, Research, Discovery of 78rpm Records
volunteer-driven preservation effort to digitize 78rpm shellac records from the era between 1898 and 1960. Hundreds of thousands of recordings are freely available to stream, covering everything from rural gospel to Italian opera to field recordings of animal sounds. The discs are so fragile that picking them up can cause them to shatter, making digitization the only way to keep the recordings accessible.
Macaulay Library
The world's largest scientific archive of wildlife media, housed at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The collection holds over 3.2 million audio recordings covering 96 percent of the world's bird species, along with 84 million photographs and hundreds of thousands of video clips. The oldest recordings date to 1929, when two Cornell researchers captured the songs of a house wren, a song sparrow, and a rose-breasted grosbeak in an Ithaca park.
Standard Ebooks
A volunteer-driven projects that produces high-quality, free digital editions of public domain literature. Each title is carefully formatted, proofread, and designed to meet modern ebook standards.
Endangered Archives Programme
Over 16 million digitized images and over 35,000 sound recording from more than 500 projects across 90 countries, in over 100 languages and scripts
Digital Collections | The Library of Congress
Access to millions of primary source documents in history and culture Including photographs, manuscripts ,maps, newspapers, audio recordings, films, and government documents.
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
One of the world's largest collections of Chinese art and artifacts, spanning over 8,000 years from the Neolithic period to modern era.
Wellcome Collections
Over 100,000 images spanning 2,000 years of medical history, all free to download under Creative Commons licensing.
National Film Board of Canada
Canadian films and documentaries
Poetry Foundation
Explore poetry across eras, genres, and formats
Podcasts and Audio - NASA
Every sound NASA has recorded is in the public domain and they've made thousands of them freely available: the roar of a shuttle, the radio emission from Jupiter, and more.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
Search more than 1 trillion websites and millions of free texts, movies, music and more.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
More than 9,200 "ephemeral" films from the mid-20th century, all free to stream and download. The collection preserves the kinds of films that were never meant to survive: corporate training reels, Cold War propaganda, educational shorts, home movies, and advertising.