  |
Albumen Photographs - http://albumen.stanford.edu/
Presents the art and science of albumen printing, contemporary research, conservation and treatment of images. |
| |
A History of Photography - http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
Includes an extensive history, from earliest times to the 1920s. Includes information on all significant photographers with biographical data. |
| |
Arab Foundation for the Image - http://www.fai.org.lb/
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. |
| |
Early Visual Media - http://www.visual-media.be/
History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions. |
| |
City-Gallery.com - http://www.city-gallery.com/
Information on photography, family photographs and images, and genealogy. Focus is on 19th century photography. |
| |
Photographs: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=19
Images, history, and technical information about their collection of photographs. |
| |
Pinhole Photography - http://www.photo.net/photo/pinhole/pinhole
History of pinhole photography, including theory and construction details. |
| |
Georgian Museum of Photography - http://www.photomuseum.org.ge
Virtual museum of images from photography, including portraits, architecture, cultural and historical monuments. |
| |
Photo Revue - http://www.photorevue.com
All about Czech and Slovak photography, history, theory, reviews, profiles. |
| |
Women in Photography Archive - http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Palmquist/index.htm
Focuses on the role of women in photography. Includes essays on women photographers and an online gallery. |
| |
About Photography: Nudes 1920-1940 - http://www.photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa040300a.htm
Consists of on the history of nude photography from 1920 to 1940, emphasizing the roles of the famous master photographers. No images. |
| |
Photography in the 1840s - About Photography - http://www.photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa061702a.htm
Comparing the Calotype and the Daguerreotype, the first Welsh photograph, Irish pioneers, and French advances in the art of photography. |
| |
Cuarterolo Archive - http://archivocuarterolo.8m.com
The Cuarterolo archive is an image bank focused on 19th century Argentine and Latin American photography that houses over 5000 historic photographs. |
| |
Tintypes and Daguerreotypes - http://www.maine.com/photos/tintypes.htm
Article defines what tintypes and daguerreotypes are, the history of the processes, the sizes they came in, and the years they were popular. |
| |
Historic Photo Archive - http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/f2/kodachrome.html
Kodachrome dating guide for vintage slides. |
| |
Lafayette Negative Archive - http://lafayette.150m.com/
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. |
| |
Photica Project - http://www.cwriley.com/photica/index.htm
Contains information and articles on historical photographers and groups. |
| |
Central Pacific Railroad - http://cprr.org/
Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad. |
| |
The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura - http://brightbytes.com/cosite/cohome.html
Many facets of the camera obscura (dark room); the origin of the photographic camera, its place in art, culture and education,vintage instruments,images, photographs, and working camera obscuras are included. |
| |
Finding Photographers - http://www.findingphotographers.com/
A worldwide index of the books and websites that list photographers and when they worked. |