OAIster database is a great resource for getting historic photographs. Images range from historic baseball games to oyster shuckers working in Louisiana. A good place to go to get images of regular people in real life.
And there are other resources as well. You are searching a lot of specialized archives and their digitized material. Archives and repositories can be devoted to historical figures, a region, a group of people, or a type of profession (shrimpers, steelworkers, etc...)
Photographs, audio files, statistics and other resources are also available.
If using an image, please be sure to read the copyright notices - however, most archives are happy to allow use of their materials!
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