See People and Portraits＞Portraits, if you want to search portraits.

Library catalogs and bibliographies

• JCII Library （JCII Camera Museum）　　　Searchable contents of main journals in フリーワード検索
• Photography (Research Navi) （National Diet Library）
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Library
• NDL Digital Collections （National Diet Library)
  • Contents of Photo Books at the NDL ; Meiji and Taisho Era (Reference service and bibliography)

Image search

• TinEye Reverse Image Search　　　Reverse image search available

Digital images

General

• How to Search Aerial Photos (Search Guide) （National Diet Library）
• National Diet Library Digital Collections
  • National Diet Library Digital Collections One-Click Search on Photo Books from Meiji era to early Showa era

Old photos (Japan)

• Old Photos of JAPAN　　　1860-1930
• TOKYO Archive （Tokyo Metropolitan Library）
• Edo-Tokyo Museum Digital Archives　　　Select "Still Picture" in category field
• Kyoto Institute, Library and Digital Archives
• Early Photographs of Japan Database （International Research Center for Japanese Studies）
• Database of photographic glass plates （Japan Proffesional Photographers Society）
• The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs (Online Gallery) （National Diet Library）
• Showakan Digital Archive
• Database of historical photos in Tokyo National Museum
• Memories of Metropolis-Tokyo （Tokyo Metropolitan Library）
• Memory of City Yokohama （Yokohama City Library）
• Japanese after image : The end of a curtain, Meiji which see with a photograph （The Open University of Japan）
• Database of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu- Meiji Period （Nagasaki University）
• Yokohama Archives of History

Old photos (Worldwide)

• Digital Public Library of America
• Europeana （European Commission）
• Prints & Photographs Online Catalog （Library of Congress）
• stern-Fotoarchiv （Bayerische Staatsbibliothek）
• Digital Archives of Cultural Heritage Digital Silk Road Project （National Institute of Informatics）

News photos

• Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search （The Asahi Shimbun）　*Subscription database for on-site use only
  • Asahi Shimbun Historical Photo Archive Asia before and during the war edition
• How to Search Newspaper Photos (Research Navi) （National Diet Library）
• The Mainichi Photo Bank （The Mainichi Newspapers）
• Yomiuri Hochi Shashinkan Photo archive （The Yomiuri Shimbun）