Library Research Guides: HIST 396: Port Cities of the Indian Ocean: Find Maps & Images

HISTORICAL MAPS

Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection
Over 44,000 map images of the Library's 250,000 map collection have been scanned. From the University of Texas.
David Rumsey Map Collection
Historical map collection with more than 27,000 maps and images; focus on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps.
Old Maps Online
A historical maps search engine from the UK and Switzerland
Afriterra
Rare maps of Africa, 1480-1900

Flickr - Creative Commons
recent photographs including depictions of historical buildings, streets, monuments, etc. Credit the creator and link back to the image.
Europeana
Over 20 million public-domain images from Europe's libraries and museums. A rich source of images from the empires that colonized our region.
Digital Images Collections Wiki - Wellesley College
a resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal or educational purposes
ArchNet Digital Library
90,000 images of the built environment in Muslim societies, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Libraries
Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs
Over 7000 photographs depicting life, primarily in East Africa, between about 1860 and 1960. Digitized by Northwestern University Library from their collection.
Historic Photographers of Zanzibar
Early 20th century photographs of Zanzibar, Goa, Oman, and ships.
search tip
• google [city or country name] historic photographs, or [country name] archives

Books published before 1923 are in the public domain and their illustrations & photos can be used with full citation.

Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
All material fully searchable because in the public domain; texts, audio, video, photographs. Amazing source.

HathiTrust
digital library by major research institutions & libraries, with freely searchable content as well as some "sneak-peek" (copyrighted) content.
Google Books
mostly "sneak-peek" viewing of books in copyright, but some pre-1923 material in the public domain that is fully viewable. Use peek to identify what you need to borrow.