The aim of this paper is to present available historical documents, photographs, historical maps, aerial photographs and satellite images to describe their potential for a study of landscape changes on example of the UNESCO locality - Vlkolínec. Landscape ecological research (and mainly a study of land use or landscape structure changes) is crucially dependend on this sources with information about the former of cultural landscape. In the paper, the available historical sources are listed and discussed from the point of their applicability for a study of landscape changes. Recently, digitization of photographs of cultural heritage and its public access in books or via internet online portals enable analysis and comparison of a great number of graphic sources with contemporary reality.