History | Museums

• Ansel Adams Gallery (Yosemite National Park, CA)
• Walker Evans - A site dedicated to the documentary photography of Walker Evans.
• Wegman World - The official William Wegman web site.

HISTORY

• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1946 - This is a terrific resource from the Library of Congress' American Memory site focusing on photographs in the Library's collection. 45,000 black and white photos and 1,600 color photos have been digitized and are available over the Web, and searchable by keyword or browseable by subject, creator, or state and country.
• The American Highway Project (AHP) - The AHP's mission is "to discover, procure, document and preserve through photographic media the architecture and cultural landscapes situated along the highways of the U.S." This site is designed to be an information source and technical library and includes interviews and digital images.
• Faces of Lost Youth, Child Labor in America, 1908-1912 - Photographer Lewis W. Hine traveled across America to photograph children as young as three years old working for long hours, often under dangerous conditions. This is an online exhibition of the resulting photographs, with his original captions, that changed how America viewed child labor.
• Masters of Photography - This site offers articles, photographs, and resource links for a growing list of great photographers. Adams, Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Eisenstaedt, Lange, Muybridge, Steichen, Stieglitz, and Weston are among the photographers currently presented.
• The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection - This fabulous resource from the Library of Congress features over 8,000 photos by commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968) and is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. The collection includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards. The history and development of South Texas and the border, including the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown and along the border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley are documented. Browse a subject index or search by keyword.
• Western History Photography Collection - The Denver Public Library's Western History/Genealogy Department provides this fabulous searchable collection of photographs of the American West. Searchers have access to images and catalog records of a portion of the Library's 600,000 item collection. Currently there are 50,000 images of Native Americans, pioneers, early railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns. Notable collections depict the daily lives of the Tenth Mountain Division ski troops and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

MUSEUMS

• The American Museum of Photography - A Yahoo! Pick of the Year, this web site is a gold mine for anyone looking for photography as art. Existing solely in cyberspace, the American Museum of Photography is the brainchild of William Becker, whose 75,000 photographs from the "first 75 years of photography" make up the bulk of the site's awesome collection. The newest online exhibition, "An Eye for the World," offers rediscovered pictorialist and modernist images by Shotaro Shimomura, taken in 1934 and 1935. Another, "Of Bricks & Light," is an extended exhibition of architectural photographs from 1845 - 1915. There is also a guided tour, book store, information about preserving and protecting photographs, and the Registrar's Office, which is a contact point for matters concerning exhibition loans and rights and permissions.
• The George Eastman House (Rochester, NY) - An international museum of photography and film.
• International Center for Photography (New York City, NY)

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