The Project Apollo Image Gallery
The World-Wide Web's most extensive collection of high-quality Apollo images, featuring images scanned for Eric Jones' Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
JSC Digital Image Collection
This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission. This site includes both a full text search and a simple browse tool to help you find the photos you're looking for.
Neil Armstrong Eating Breakfast before going to the moon
What assumptions could students make about this guy if they saw him eating breakfast in the corner of a diner? What would they think of you told them who it really is, and what he was going to do after breakfast?
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The Photographs
These are the photographs through which the United States learned of Soviet Missiles in Cuba
Photo - the counter-culture's invasion of Bethel, New York
As much as teacher want to show the crowds at Woodstock, showing students the people who couldn't make it there might have a greater impact. For just one weekend, Bethel, the site of the festival, became the third largest city in the state of New York
1969: Hippie High School - Album on Imgur
"Real history" for high school students might just be looking at themselves 45 years ago. This slide show of pictures from a California high school have remarkable quality, color and focus. They also show the suburbanization and consumerism of counterculture to show that this is anything but anti-conformist - or is it?
Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips and Photo Images from CriticalPast
This is a commercial site and the materials are watermarked. Still, as the "raw data" of still and video images it can provide insight into certain eras.
Vintage stock footage and millions of stock photo images comprising one of the world's largest royalty-free archival footage collections. All broadcast quality and available for immediate download in HD and SD formats, including professional screeners.
JFK Photo History
Four-part Photo History of John Fitzgerald Kennedy featuring a spectacular selection of pictures hand selected by The History Place from the JFK Presidential Archives for your enjoyment and education
Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
Instrumental in the early stages of the Cuban missile crisis, these photographs showed that the Soviet Union was amassing offensive ballistic missiles in Cuba.
Asia Finest Discussion Forum Old Pictures of Colonial Vietnam
What we wore to Woodstock
Photo essay of quality pictures of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival
Woodstock photos
Remembering the original Woodstock, 1969 - Rare Historical Photos
The Hard Hat Riots, May 8, 1970 — NYC Department of Records & Information Services
Lots of raw footage of the "Hard Hat Riot" and the other protests in Manhattan in May 1970
Detroit 1967: Photos From the 12th Street Riot
Photo essay with high quality .images from Life Magazine. These can be used as an introduction "Do Now" activity for students - what questions do they have looking at these images