- Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
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Photo blog about life a hundred years ago.
www.shorpy.com
- 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
- 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
- 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
- City-gallery.com
Provides a searchable database of photos by location, format, and period.
www.city-gallery.com
- 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
- California Views
Holds the works of over 900 photographers from the 1880-1990's.
www.caviews.com
- 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
- Decline of Fashion Photography, The
An argument in pictures by Karen Lehrman.
slate.msn.com/features/010510_fashion-slide-show/01.htm
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Remembering Nagasaki
Photographic essay of and discussion about the bombing of Nagasaki.
www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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