- Afghanistan 1969-1974
Features a collection of photographs taken through Afghanistan from 1969 to 1974.
www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/index_e.html
- Afghanistan: Images From the Harrison Forman Collection
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Documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s.
www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/afghan
- 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
- America's First Look into the Camera
Daguerreotype portraits and views from 1839-1864. Collection held by the Library of Congress.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
- Archaeological Collage
An interactive melding of contemporary and historic photography in the Portland, Oregon area.
www.reed.edu/~cosmo/AC.html
- Blood and Honey
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A Balkan War journal divided into eight chapters by photographer Ron Haviv.
photoarts.com/haviv/bloodandhoney
- Buffalo History Works' Photograph Collection, The
Views from the history of Buffalo and Western New York.
www.buffalohistoryworks.com/photograph
- California Views
Holds the works of over 900 photographers from the 1880-1990's.
www.caviews.com
- 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
- 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
- Charlotte - A Work in Progress
Photo images of life from 1956-1996. From the Charlotte Observer archives.
www.cmstory.org/exhibit/observer
- China: Exploring the Interior 1903-1904
Collection of photographs, part of a traveling exhibit, which captures the lifestyle of the rural Chinese in the wake of the Boxer Rebellion.
www.chinaexhibit.org
- City-gallery.com
Provides a searchable database of photos by location, format, and period.
www.city-gallery.com
- 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
- Decline of Fashion Photography, The
An argument in pictures by Karen Lehrman.
slate.msn.com/features/010510_fashion-slide-show/01.htm
- First Photographs of Victoria Falls, The
Taken by Frank "Zambezi" Watson in the 19th century. Includes an image of Chief Khama of the Bamangwata.
www.hoole.easynet.co.uk
- Flickr: The Commons
Help describe photographs in the Library of Congress' collection of historic photographs on Flickr, by adding tags or leaving comments.
flickr.com/commons
- 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
- Ghost Town
Offers a photography exhibit from a motorcyclist who takes drives through the dead zone of Chernobyl with information about the accident and current radiation levels.
www.kiddofspeed.com
- Grandpa's Black Gold
Exhibits a photographic journey through Persia in the 1920s, primarily concentrating on oil production.
www.doug-dickson.supanet.com/grandpa.htm
- Historical Archive Collection of Nez Perce
Photo collection compiled from the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Montana Historical Society.
www.nezperce.com/npphoto1.html
- Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-meiji Period
Searchable archive from Nagasaki University Library.
oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive
- Kodak Girl Collection, The
Collection of vintage images of women photographers with cameras in advertising, trade cards, and postcards. Also includes Kodak memorabilia.
www.kodakgirl.com
- 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
- 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
- Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Reading Room
Includes photographs, prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. International in scope, but focusing on materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States.
www.loc.gov/rr/print
- New York Public Library Photography Collection
www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/photo.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
- 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
- Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years
Smithsonian exhibition featuring pictures of the Nixon White House, 1970-1974.
americanhistory.si.edu/maroon
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Picturing the North Carolina Fund
Images of community action, protest, and social change in North Carolina from 1963 to 1968.
sunsite.unc.edu/ncfund
- Poland at War
Photographs by Stefan Mucha of Nazi-occupied Poland taken between 1939 and 1945.
www.thornb2b.co.uk/poland_at_war
- Remembering Nagasaki
Photographic essay of and discussion about the bombing of Nagasaki.
www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki
- Searchable Historic Photograph Collection
Online historical photographs of Salem, OR and surrounding areas.
www.open.org/library/fotofind.html
- Selected Civil War Photographs
From the Library of Congress. Includes scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects, portraits of Confederate and Union officers and enlisted men.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
- Semarang on Photo
Historic pictures of people and places.
www.semarang.nr.nl
- Serpent's Wall, The
Photo essay that looks at the site, artifacts, and history of one of the most severe battles of WWII in Kiev, Ukraine.
www.theserpentswall.com
- Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
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Photo blog about life a hundred years ago.
www.shorpy.com
- Skipjack Sunday
Collection of recently discovered and restored images made during the 1967 Deal Island Maryland Skipjack Race.
www.colonyproductions.com/Skipjacks
- Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
Photographs of the Mid-Atlantic states New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from the 1850s to the 1910s. From the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/dennhome.html
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative@
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- Tanzbilder/Dance Pictures
Hundreds of photographs of dancers, actors, and contortionists published in pre-WW II magazines.
www.tanzbilder.de
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920
Thousands of photos, indexed by subject and full text of the catalog records. From the Detroit Publishing Company collection archived at the Library of Congress.
lcweb2.loc.gov/detroit/dethome.html
- 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
- Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition of 1896, The
Features early examples of art photography in the United States and the beginnings of a national collection.
www.americanhistory.si.edu/1896
- West Virginia Historical Photographs Collection
Offers photographs from the West Virginia and Regional History Collection at West Virginia University.
images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=wvcp
- Western History Photos
Contains a portion of the Denver Public Library's 600,000 photographs documenting the history of Colorado and the American West.
www.photoswest.org
- 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
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