- Tanzbilder/Dance Pictures
Hundreds of photographs of dancers, actors, and contortionists published in pre-WW II magazines.
www.tanzbilder.de
- Oriental Institute Museum Photographic Archives
Provides a sampling of images from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Persepolis and Ancient Iran, and the 1905-1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/OI_PA.html
- Kodak: The Endurance
Original photographs by Frank Hurley chronicle the ill-fated expedition to Antarctica led by Shackleton.
www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance
- Altoona Archives
Dedicated to the town's history and heritage. With a collection of photos from the 1940s to the present.
pages.prodigy.com/altoonaarchives/home.htm
- Leiden 19th-Century Portrait Database
Over 15,000 Dutch studio portraits (Cartes de Visite) period 1860-1914 searchable by artist, studio, content, or description.
ind156b.wi.leidenuniv.nl:2000
- Photography as a Fine ARF!
Exhibition of historical photographs in which dogs behave like people, and people are transformed into dogs. From the American Museum of Photography.
www.photographymuseum.com/finearf1.html
- Newseum: The Commissar Vanishes
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Online exhibit illustrating how Communist Party workers in the Soviet Union worked to remove "enemies of the people" from the photographic archives.
www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes
- U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection
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Series of more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana.
www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel
- Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-meiji Period
Searchable archive from Nagasaki University Library.
oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive
- Searchable Historic Photograph Collection
Online historical photographs of Salem, OR and surrounding areas.
www.open.org/library/fotofind.html
- Photographs of the British Army in India 100 Years Ago
Features photographs collected in India by Private W.G. Skinner of the Rifle Brigade at the end of the nineteenth century.
www.rbomford.freeserve.co.uk
- Cameras: The Technology of Photographic Imaging
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Collection includes panoramic, binocular stereo, astronomical, telescopic, box, and field cameras. An exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras
- When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood
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Exhibition at the Library of Congress selected from images that capture the experience of childhood as it is connected across time, different cultures, and diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/young
- Colonial Meeting Houses of New England
Project initiated by photographer Paul Wainwright to capture the wonderful structures and emptiness of the 'Meeting Houses' built in colonial New England during the 18th century. Features photo gallery, meeting house description, and exhibition information.
www.colonialmeetinghouses.com
- Blood and Honey
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A Balkan War journal divided into eight chapters by photographer Ron Haviv.
photoarts.com/haviv/bloodandhoney
- Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Photographs from the William P. Gottlieb Collection, documenting the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml
- G.I. Jones Photographic Archive
Photographs of Nigerian art and masquerade taken in the 1930s. Includes examples from Igbo, Ibibio, Ijo, and Ogoni speaking peoples.
www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/index.html
- Semarang on Photo
Historic pictures of people and places.
www.semarang.nr.nl
- Calvin Photographic Collection
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Exhibits photos taken by Samuel Calvin in the late 19th century of geological features and buildings throughout the state of Iowa.
www.uiowa.edu/~calvin
- Picturing the North Carolina Fund
Images of community action, protest, and social change in North Carolina from 1963 to 1968.
sunsite.unc.edu/ncfund
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