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Letterform Archive, a non-profit center for typography and lettering located in San Francisco, now offers open access to nearly 1,500 objects and 9,000 hi-fi images in their Online Archive.

"Library Stack is an online database of digital publications from the visual arts, focusing on overlooked ephemera such as artists’ ebooks, podcasts, filmed lectures, field recordings, typefaces, PDF journals and software."

Archives & Special Collections

Carnegie Mellon University Archives
The University Archives is home to more than 100 years of CMU's history.

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
Sanborn maps, created to assist fire insurance companies assess property risk, chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. These maps are for non-commercial use only, and may not be downloaded, clipped, printed, resold, retained or used for commercial or business research purposes.

Slides from the Eames Collection (Library of Congress)
Slides from the Eames Collection document the work and interests of Charles and Ray Eames and projects undertaken by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames.
Smithsonian Open Access
2.8 million high-resolution 2D and 3D images from across the Smithsonian's collections.