Immigrant Web Sites
9/27/2009
The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html: This online exhibit features photographs of early immigrant settlers to the Northern Plains States.

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
www.bartleby.com/208: Full-text online version of the groundbreaking 1890 publication by Jacob August Riis.

Minnesota Historical Society Visual Resources Database
www.mnhs.org/library/search/vrdb/bsearch.html: Learn about Minnesota's past through pictures.

Connecticut History Online
www.lib.uconn.edu/cho: 14,000 images of historical prints, photographs and drawings.

Salem Public Library Historic Photograph Collections
photos.salemhistory.org: Searchable database of thousands of historical Oregon photos.

Early Las Vegas
library.nevada.edu/digproj: Digital exhibition of historical photos from the University of Nevada.

ViewMate
www.jewishgen.org/viewmate: Get help understanding your Jewish photos, letters and other documents.

Avotaynu Postcards
www.avotaynu.com/postcards: Old images of Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine.

The Photography Collection
gowest.coalliance.org: Photos from the Western History and Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library.

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