History
American Memory from the Library of Congress
"American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials" including "manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music."
See also The South Texas Border, 1900-1920, the Robert Runyon Collection online and Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
American Museum of Photography
"The American Museum of Photography™ is "A Museum Without Walls...for an Art Without Boundaries" established by Director, William. B. Becker, a published historian of photography. "Its predecessor, Photography's Beginnings: A Visual History, made its debut on the World Wide Web May 25, 1996."
American Photography: A Century of Images
PBS website related to television broadcast.
The Burns Archive
"700,000 plus vintage photographs in the Burns Collection is a unique source of historic visual documentation. The strength of the collection is in vernacular photographs. The photographs taken by, for and of the common man."
The Daguerreian Society and the Daguerreotype
Galleries, resources, history.
A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s, by Robert Leggat MA M.Ed Ph.D.
The author writes, "This is not designed to be a course on the history of photography such as a resource to dip into. In addition to pen-portraits of many of the most important photographers of the period, it contains information on some of the most significant processes used during the early days of photography."
Photica Project
Formerly Bill Riley's Antique Camera's and Photographica. A camera collector, Bill Riley has arranged his collection and provided photographs to share with the world.
Pinhole Photography
Essay by Jon Grepstad tracing the history and development of this technology. Includes links to images and cameras.
TimeLifePictures Home
"Time & Life Pictures is an unparalleled collection of striking imagery, documenting past and present events in politics, culture, celebrities and the arts. The collection includes some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century...." Click on "Search Imagery" to search the collection.