UPDATED, Octobere 28, 2001

 Historical Overviews

A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat

Stereographs, the 19th century's virtual reality, Univ. of California, Riverside

History of Photography Exhibition, at the Univ of California, Riverside's Museum of Photography

 Exhibits & Archives

Eastman Museum entrance site to large holdings

Civil War Photographs, from the Library of Congress

A searchable database of 3,500 black and white photographs from the U.S. Army Signal Corps Collection, taken during WWII, plus literally hundreds of thousands of other scanned images

History of Photography Exhibition, at the Univ of California, Riverside's Museum of Photography

Library of Congress American Memory Exhibit -- Includes Civil War collection and Farm Security Administration (1938-1944) photographs

Library of Congress: Office of War Information Collection -- sound recordings, photographs, other documents, ca. 1944-1947

News Events Collection from the Library of Congress, including photo collections, ca. 1880s-1960s

New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection: News photographs, 1920-1960s, Library of Congress

Fax history. Pictures and text of facsimile transmission.

Old Postcard Exhibition, by Lars-Olov Stenborg

Will Connell: An LA store window, ca. 1940, Univ of California, Riverside

 

 People

Mathew Brady, a biographical article, by Geoffrey Rubinstein, Jones Digital Century

 

 Organizations & Other Photographic Resources

National Press Photographers Association

Photographic Libraries A "Yellow Pages" of stock photo resources in many categories.

Photography and Genealogy Mailing List

 

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