Old photo archives

[richl]

One of my favorite sites for old photos is the collection at the Library of Congress.

Http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Does anyone know of similar publicly accessible government or university sites?

P.S. Between the photo site and the music archives

www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Performing%20Arts,%20Music

you can loose yourself for days at a time.

[julio1fer]

Life Magazine photo archive. hosted in Google.

I find it best to search for images, using the provided box.

I got lost there for hours, looking for WW2 airplanes pictures.

[daveh]

Julio, the photo that fronts the 1930s of the Google search has to be one of the most recognisable of all time - the dust-bowl woman and her children.

The ability to access these archives is wonderful. It's still nicer to have the photograph or a book for any individual work, but only unlimited space and money would let you compete with what's available on the internet.

[hansz]

Found some negative rolls of the small factory of my father, a Steenhouwerij - stone masonry, I believe in UK speak...
Early fifties:

Foto13a2 by hanszeiss, on Flickr

The yard:

Foto17a by hanszeiss, on Flickr

Dad, overseeing:

Foto21a by hanszeiss, on Flickr

Myself, before the house/office, Kip caravan, and the 1968 Ford Fairlane...

Foto20a by hanszeiss, on Flickr