Photos
If you are interested in obtaining copies of archival images, please refer to these documents:
Search all of our digitized photos
To search all of our digitized images at one time, please use the button below. It will take you to the Illinois Digital Archive with all of our collections pre-selected. You will be searching all of the Pantagraph Negatives Collections, as well as our Public Life, Work, Architecture, and the Black History Project collections.
Pantagraph Negatives Collection
The Pantagraph Negatives are divided into separate collections based on date. Click on a collection below to search or browse!
Pantagraph Negatives Collection Overview
Overview of the project that has digitized over 100,000 so far, and video tutorials
1930-1939
Pantagraph Negatives on the Illinois Digital Archive
1940-1945
Pantagraph Negatives on the Illinois Digital Archive
1946-1949
Pantagraph Negatives on the Illinois Digital Archive
1950-1954
Pantagraph Negatives on the Illinois Digital Archive
1955-1959
Pantagraph Negatives on the Illinois Digital Archive
Photo Collections & Publications
Architecture of McLean County
Thousands of images of the built environment, from the earliest cabins to construction of homes in the 21st century.
Bloomington-Normal Black History Project Photos
Photo collection on the Illinois Digital Archive
Public Life in McLean County
Images in this collection include clubs, schools, parades, sports, service organizations, government, and medicine in McLean County.
Work in McLean County
Thousands of images showing hundreds of occupations that helped build McLean County, and the people who labored within them.
Historic Aerial Images
1954 American Aerial County History Series
Each volume includes an up-to-date historical narrative with county maps and many unique aerial photographs of cities, towns, villages and farmsteads.
1940 Aerial Imagery
Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
Social Media Photos
We post historic images on various social media platforms. On Instagram we use some hashtags to group content. Many of the original files for these images can be found at the databases linked above.
HistoryPin
Discover local historic images pinned to a map, some overlaid into Google Street View!