- Archaeological Collage
An interactive melding of contemporary and historic photography in the Portland, Oregon area.
www.reed.edu/~cosmo/AC.html
- Tanzbilder/Dance Pictures
Hundreds of photographs of dancers, actors, and contortionists published in pre-WW II magazines.
www.tanzbilder.de
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Semarang on Photo
Historic pictures of people and places.
www.semarang.nr.nl
- 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
- Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years
Smithsonian exhibition featuring pictures of the Nixon White House, 1970-1974.
americanhistory.si.edu/maroon
- 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
- Buffalo History Works' Photograph Collection, The
Views from the history of Buffalo and Western New York.
www.buffalohistoryworks.com/photograph
- 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
- Poland at War
Photographs by Stefan Mucha of Nazi-occupied Poland taken between 1939 and 1945.
www.thornb2b.co.uk/poland_at_war
- Charlotte - A Work in Progress
Photo images of life from 1956-1996. From the Charlotte Observer archives.
www.cmstory.org/exhibit/observer
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