Reference
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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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- CameraNaked.com
- Famous photographs, and master photographers, that have achieved iconic status as defining moments in history.
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- Central Pacific Railroad
- Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad.
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- Early Visual Media
- History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions.
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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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- Georgian Museum of Photography
- Virtual museum of images from photography, including portraits, architecture, cultural and historical monuments.
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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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- Mathew J. Steffens
- Article and photographs of Commodore Steffens, one of Chicago's foremost society photographer from 1872 to the 1910's.
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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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- The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura
- 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.
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- Photography and the Archive Research Centre
- The Photography and the Archive Research Centre stages events and commissions research into the Visual Archive and is based at the University of the Arts, London.
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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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- NOAA Photo Library
- Searchable photography collection focusing on the environment in the United States.
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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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- Urban Life Through Two Lenses
- The exhibition represents multiple approaches to history, material culture and time. Photographs by William Notman (1826-1891), re-visited and re-photographed by contemporary photographer Andrzej Maciejewski, with separate historical, photographic, and museological commentary. McCord Museum of Canadian History. [Flash and QuickTime required]
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