Chicago-area image and film collections
View of White City Amusement Park, 63rd and South Parkway (Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr.), ca. 1905-1920.
Image: Historic Architecture & Landscape image archive, Art Institute of Chicago
Image Databases
- Carli Digital CollectionsDigital image collections from the University of Chicago, regional and national repositories.
- Black Metropolis Research ConsortiumA consortium of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions whose mission is to make accessible its members’ holdings of materials that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago.
- Historic Architecture & Landscape image collectionFrom the Art Institute of Chicago
- Photographs from the Chicago Daily NewsThe photo morgue from 1902 through 1933; includes ordinary street scenes and neighborhoods. Chicago History Museum holds the original negatives.
- University of Chicago Photographic Archive This link opens in a new window
- Chicago Film ArchivesAn archive dedicated to collecting, preserving and providing access to films related to the Midwestern United States.
- Built in America1933-present. Measured drawings, photographs and histories of buildings, neighborhoods and industrial sites throughout the United States--not just in Chicago-- undertaken by the Historic American Buildings Survey and The Historic American Engineering Record, both agencies of the National Park Service.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowPopup window blocking must be disabled to use all of ARTstor's features.
Film collections
- Chicago Film ArchivesAn archive dedicated to collecting, preserving and providing access to films related to the Midwestern United States.