US History: Progressive Era Group Project: Images and Videos

You may use any images in these databases.

Find Video Clips in this database:

Google Images 

On your image search results page:

• Click on Tools.
• Click on Usage Rights and choose Creative Commons Licenses which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator.
• For a Google Slide presentation, click on Size and prefer Large so you get a clear, sharp image for your slide.

Look for this Creative Commons icon

Best Practices for Attribution with examples; from Creative Commons.

Ideally Image citations appear on the same slide as the image.

• To download an image to your computer, right click on the image and choose Save image as. (On a MacBook, Ctrl + click = right click). Save it on your desktop as a .jpg.

• To get the image URL, right click on the image and choose Copy image address. Edit your imported NoodleTools citation if needed to update using the image URL.

• To insert your NoodleTools image citation on your Google Slide, click on Insert in the menu bar and choose Text Box.

• Paste your citation into the text box.  Be sure the text box is wide enough to accommodate the citation in proper Chicago format with the "hanging indent"

• Alternate location for citation - if your teacher approves - is in the Speaker Notes box below the slide.

You may use any images you find on the following websites.

Political / Editorial Cartoons 

American Cartoon Prints, 1800-1899 (from the Library of Congress)

Gilded Age Cartoons (from Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museum)

Gilded Age Humor (a digital album of cover images of Puck, weekly humor magazine, on the Library of Congress Flickr account)

Politics in Graphic Detail: Exploring History through Political Cartoons (a digital history exhibit from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania that features political cartoons spanning American history from the colonial period through the Progressive Era.)

• Early Gilded Age (1878-1889)
• Gay Nineties (1890-1899)
• Early Twentieth Century (1900-1922)

Wikimedia Commons  (Wikimedia Commons is a free media repository of over 58 million freely usable items)

• 19th Century Political Cartoons of the United States
• 20th Century Political Cartoons of the United States

Other Image Websites

Digital Public Library of America (more than 37 million free-to-use images, texts, videos and  sounds held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. Keyword search or explore Browse by Topic, Exhibitions, and Primary Source Sets in the top menu bar. Browse by time period within Primary Source Sets.)

Historical statistics of the United States: earliest times to the present [1970]. (This PDF of the print reference source contains tables of statistics on a range of topics such as population, migration, labor, and business enterprise from Census.gov, the website of the U.S. Census Bureau)

Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog: Search by the subject/contents of the photograph/print and date for best results. If you start typing a date, a series of suggested dates and/or date ranges will pop up. If you need any help, please ask a Librarian!

Library of Congress Albums on Flickr

• Child Labor & Lewis Hines, investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, c1910.
• Illustrated Newspaper Supplements Cover pages of the New York Tribune beginning 1909.
• News in the 1910s as photographed by Bains News Service, approximately 1910-1912.
• Women Striving Forward, images of women, including suffragettes and women's rights events, many from the 1910s.

The New York Public Library Digital Images Collection (Be sure to check "Search only public domain materials" when you search this digital collection of 881,097 prints, photographs, maps, and more.)

The Opper Project: Lesson Plans  (A topically arranged collection of historic editorial cartoons covering more than 100 years of American history from The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Cartoons are in the public domain unless otherwise noted.)

Public Domain Images from the National Archives  (This set features images from the U.S. National Archives that are believed to be in the public domain. As NARA explains: "The vast majority of digitized historical documents and photographs in ARC are in the public domain. Therefore, no written permission is required to use them. We would appreciate your crediting the National Archives and Records Administration as the original source. For the few that remain copyrighted, please read the instructions noted in the description for the digital image.)

Wikimedia Commons: United States by Century (Wikimedia Commons is a free media repository of over 58 million freely usable items)