Library and Archives Canada Archive Search
When I worked as a picture researcher, I often worked on historical subjects, and I became very familiar with on-line archival photograph databases. If you've read the captions, you'll have notice that the ones I've been posting are from Library and Archives Canada, but I just used that one as an example because it's the database I'm most familiar with. There are tons of them out there. If you like photos, and you like old things, or analogue things, or history, or looking at period costumes or old cars or whatever, then you should explore the many databases out there. Libraries, archives, newspapers, museums, universities, and historical societies are all good sources.
A lot of the photos are public domain, so you can do whatever you want with them (in Canada, any photo taken before 1949 is public domain, but that will be different in each country). You'll have to pay if you want to order a high-res file, of course.
There are similar databases for out there for art, though the copyright is often trickier on that stuff. Next few posts, I'll post a few piececs of art from the Library and Archives Canada database.
Just my lesson in visual appreciation for today.
