Digital Archives

A list of free archives and databases (some may require a free account).

National/International

Europeana, over 53,500,000 artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe
Archive.org the motherlode!
HathiTrust
US National Archives
Smithsonian Institution
Library of Congress Digital Collections
National Park Service
New York Public Library's digital collections include audio, video, color maps, and many photographs
The European Library massive archive of materials from dozens of European libraries. Check out The Ryhiner Map Collection to find over 16,000 maps of the world from the 16th to the 18th centuries
The People's Graphic Design Archive realtively new and crowd-sourced
Old Book Illustration Archive

The Oklahoman archive. See also Birth and Death Rates for an overview of how to access it
Tulsa Historical Society Images
The Beryl Ford Collection at the Tulsa City-County Library is a collaboration between the Tulsa Historical Society and the Library.

Story Corps
Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, share, preserve, and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways
Personal record of London Jews in WWI

USC USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. (Free login required)
Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964
History Pin, an interesting user-generated archive of old photographs pinned to their geographical locations. Here is Tulsa!
US Fish and Wildlife Digital Library
Oklahoma's Digital Prairie, a collection of archives about Oklahoma history. Collections include photographs, and the Tulsa Race Riot
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later
Digital Archive of American Architecture
Oyez, audio from the Supreme Court proceedings, oral arguments
The Antique Pattern Library contains a lifetime's worth of patterns for sewing, knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, and more.
Northwestern University's collection of posters from WWII

Digital Public Library of America amazing resource of historic materials
The British Library has digitized many historic texts and images
The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature is exactly what it sounds like. From the University of Florida
Early Americas Digital Archive, a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820

Free Documentaries
SnagFilms lots of free documentaries here, too, as well as low-budget short films to inspire
TED—always worth your time
Cinemetrics, an incredible database of cinema data: length, average shot length, number of shots. Also offers free software to measure your own videos

Lots more here