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• 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition
Three prestigious Washington, D.C. organizations played a major role in the establishment and acceptance of art photography in America. The Camera Club of the Capital Bicycle Club sponsored the 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition. The Cosmos Club provided the exhibit space. And fifty of the salon's images were purchased to expand the Smithsonian Institution's national collection. National Museum of American History.
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• A History of Photography
Contains an extensive history, from earliest times to the 1920s. Includes information on all significant photographers with biographical data.
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• About Photography: Nudes 1920-1940
Consists of on the history of nude photography from 1920 to 1940, emphasizing the roles of the famous master photographers. No images.
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• Albumen Photographs
Presents the art and science of albumen printing, contemporary research, conservation and treatment of images.
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• American Museum of Photography
Covers daguerreotypes to modernism. Research center features a guide early photo processes, book reviews and information on preserving/protecting valuable photographs.
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• American Photographs: The First Century
Presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, including Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, spectacular western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, as well as Pictorialist scenes by Clarence White and Gertrude Kasebier, from approximately 1839 to 1939.
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• Anima
Articles and GIF and Flash animations relating to optical toys, chronophotography (Muybridge, Marey, and others), and pre-cinematography of the 19th century.
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• Arab Foundation for the Image
A non-profit association that collaborates with Elysée Foundation in Lausanne to promote photography in the Middle East and the North Africa by locating, collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of that region.
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• Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
To reveal the truth within the landscape, photographers of the present day have had to find a way to mediate between the sometimes harsh realities of contemporary life and the edenic traditions of the genre -- between home and heaven. Featuring 90 works by 39 artists, along with illustrated essays by Merry Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling.
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• Bosse, Henry Peter: Photographs of the Mississippi River
Collection of Bosse's photographs of the Mississippi (1883-1892) with an essay by Michael Conner who rediscovered his photographs in the 1980s.
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• Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona
Manuscripts, photographic materials, photographs, negatives, albums, work prints, audiovisual materials, contact sheets, correspondence, memorabilia and other unique artifacts relevant to the history of twentieth-century photography.
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• Central Pacific Railroad
Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad.
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• Chronophotographical Projections
The history of chronophotography and photographers is located here.
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• City-Gallery.com
Information on photography, family photographs and images, and genealogy. Focus is on 19th century photography.
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• Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Collection
A virtual tour of the photography collection. Although a very large number of prints may be viewed, no search tool is currently available.
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• Collodions and Clopinettes
Articles by Pierre G. Harmant, Paul Marillier, R. Derek Wood, and Jacques Roquencourt on Niépce, Daguerre, and other pioneer photographers.
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• Concerning the Spiritual in Photography
Approaching photography and photographer literally as a "medium," this exhibition considers how historical and present-day practitioners utilize and reference intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and illusions. Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.
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• Cuarterolo Archive
The Cuarterolo archive is an image bank focused on 19th century Argentine and Latin American photography that houses over 5000 historic photographs.
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• Cut & Paste - A History Of Photomontage
Covering the artists involved in photomontage in the Berlin Dada movement, 1980s politics, and the present day.
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• Early Visual Media
History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions.
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• Erwin E. Smith Collection
Guide to the Smith collection at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, including biography and photographs. Includes teaching resources.
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• European Photographs Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Includes works by Jean-Eugene Auguste Atget, August Sander, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert McPherson and Gustave Le Gray, among many others. Searchable by artist and title.
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• Finding Photographers
A worldwide index of the books and websites that list photographers and when they worked.
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• George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
The Photography Collection includes photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. Searchable by photographer.
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• Georgian Museum of Photography
Virtual museum of images from photography, including portraits, architecture, cultural and historical monuments.
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• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center: Photography
Begun in 1963 with Ransom's purchase of the Gernsheim Collection, the Center's Photography Collections encompass the history of photography. In addition to the world's first photograph, the Collections feature significant holdings of numerous notable early photographers.
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• Heavens Above
An online exhibit from the New York Public Library that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program.
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• Historic Photo Archive
Kodachrome dating guide for vintage slides.
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• History of Photography Timeline
A detailed timeline of photography from ancient times to the present.
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• IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
A contemporary view of history from the from the photography collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Princeton University Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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• Index of UK photographers up to c1950
Indexes and links for UK photographers, county by county, for the 19th and early 20th century.
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• Lafayette Negative Archive
Catalogue of vintage photographs made by the Lafayette studio of London, containing images made between 1887 and the 1930s, categorized by subject. Has explanatory articles.
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• Latin American Photography 1840-1920. M & M Cuarterolo's Collection
Large selection of early images of Argentina and other Latin American countries and information on the photographers active in the region between 1840 and 1920.
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• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
The LOC prints and photographs collections number more than 13.7 million images. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
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• Light Work Collection
Light Work's permanent collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence program and past Light Work Grant recipients, primarily emerging and under-represented artists. Searchable by artist.
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• Magic Lanterns
Description of the medium plus information on optical systems, components, lanterns types and slide identification.
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• Mathew J. Steffens
Steffens was THE photographer to Chicago's first "Gold Coast" residents...the richest of the rich. Commodore Steffens, as he was known because of his steam yachting and yacht club presidency, was one of Chicago's foremost society photographer from 1872 to the 1910's.
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japan. Information page with examples in roughly chronological order.
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• Midley History of Photography
Presents essays by R. Derek Wood on the history of early photography, the daguerreotype and diorama.
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• Minneapolis Institute of Arts Photography Collection
The Institute’s collection of photographs spans the history of the medium as fine art, from the 1860s to the present, but focuses primarily 20th-century American, photographers.
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