See also Art, Images, and War

History of

Photomuse - for scholarship in the history of photography -- search for photos by title, date, description, photographer, country, and others; chronology of developments, beginning with announcement on January 7, 1839, at the French Academy of Science in Paris that Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre had invented the daguerreotype. (Institute of Museum and Library Services)

America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864 - consists of more than 650 photographs dating from 1839-1864; portrait daguerreotypes of Mathew Brady studio make up the major portion of the collection, also with early architectural views by John Plumbe, and early portraits by pioneering daguerreotypist Robert Cornelius, and copies of painted portraits. (Library of Congress)

Idea Photographic: After Modernism - exhibition that "draws upon the work of more than 126 artists, ranging from well-recognized masters in the field to emerging young talents." Explore themes (such as "Photogram Aesthetic" and "Beyond Realism"), artists (such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Man Ray), essays and images. (Museum of Fine Arts, NM)

Collections

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - access to more than 50% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress; about 1 million digital images in all; not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain {Library of Congress}

'When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood' - offers a glimpse of childhood across time, cultures, & socioeconomic circumstances. 65 photos show children working in a factory, pretend sword fighting, dancing at ballet school, playing in a street, swimming, watching a parade, & taking shelter in a ditch during an air raid. Photos include Tad Lincoln in a Union uniform, a boy soldier during the Civil War, & Teddy Roosevelt with children.

Smithsonian Photography Initiative - more than 13 million photographic images within 18 museums and galleries, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo; image collections are organized by museum and discipline, ranging from the National Museum of Natural History's images documenting the sciences and man's place in the world, to the National Air and Space Museum's photographs of air and space craft since the 19th century, to the National Museum of African Art's images of the art, environment, and peoples of Africa. All the pages have a feature called "Enter the Frame" which will let you create sequences of images, tag images, and share.

Photo Archive collection - currently 500 images of a 1.2 million photograph collection are digitized - will be adding more digitize{Army Heritage and Education Center}

Photo Collection: Western History - image rich government sites and some scanned in maps of Colorado.

League of Nations Photo Archive - caricatures, posters, postcards, and photos

Dates

Panoramic Photography presents more than 20 panoramic photos: Chattanooga, TN, from a hilltop after the Union Army captured the city (1864); San Francisco after the earthquake (1906); the Panama Canal during its construction (1909); farm buildings at a ranch in Oklahoma (date unknown); Washington, D.C., viewed from atop the Washington Monument (1916); a machine gun battalion before being sent to fight in World War I (1917); and more. (NARA)

Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991 - presents 4000 images of American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits (Library of Congress)

Around the World in 1896 - 900 images including photos of railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation, as well as city views, street and harbor scenes, landscapes, and people in North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania. (Library of Congress)

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: 1880-1920 over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern US; a small group within the larger collection includes about 900 taken along several railroad lines in the US and Mexico in the 1880s and 1890s; also several views of California, Wyoming and the Canadian Rockies

American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 - consists of 4,500 photographs of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States taken between 1891 and 1936.

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933 - comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News (Library of Congress)

America from the Great Depression to World War II - about 164,000 black-and-white photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945; in the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl; in later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for WWII.

Photographers

• Mathew Brady Portraits - life and work of this pioneering photojournalist and portraitist best known for his photographs of the Civil War
• Jerry Burchfield: Primal Images - of botanical subjects made in the Amazon using the lumen print process, a cameraless form of photography; essay of the use of lumen prints and other alternative photographic recording and printing methods. (California Museum of Photography)
• Edward Curtis - offers an essay, timeline, and other information about this photographer who took more than 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over 80 American Indian tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest
• Roger Fenton, 1852-1960 - photos of one of the most important photographers of the 19th century. Fenton photographed the English countryside, country houses, cathedrals, the royal family, still lifes, & figures in Asian costume. His photos documenting the Crimean War are among the first to depict war. (NGA)
• William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz - includes 2,000 digital images, from 1938 to 1948, the "Golden Age of Jazz (Library of Congress)
• Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections
• Irving Penn: Platinum Prints - 17 platinum prints of Penn's most celebrated photographs (including portraits of Pablo Picasso & Marcel Duchamp, studies of indigenous peoples in New Guinea & Peru, and still lifes & fashion studies).
• Irving Penn: Platinum Prints - displays 17 platinum prints of Penn's most celebrated photographs, including portraits of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, studies of indigenous peoples in New Guinea and Peru, and still lifes and fashion studies (National Gallery of Art)
• Charles Sheeler: Across Media - (1883-1965) who is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the twentieth century; his work is synonymous with precisionism, a crisp, clean, hard-edged style that reconciled cubist abstraction and the machine aesthetic" with images of selected works. {Art Institute of Chicago}
• Alfred Stieglitz - presents an essay, timeline, video clips, and interviews examining this photographer, artist, and art impresario who was a powerful force in the arts of the early 20th century and an important interpreter of emerging modern culture (National Endowment of the Humanities)
• Oliver S. Van Olinda - "a collection of 420 photographs depicting life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle and other communities of Washington State's Puget Sound from the 1880s to the 1930s. ... Most of the photographs were taken by Oliver Scott Van Olinda (1868-1954), a career newspaperman and resident of Vashon Island." (University of Washington Libraries)
• Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964 - displays 1,395 photographs, primarily studio portraits of people involved in the arts (musicians, dancers, artists, literati, actors and actresses) (Library of Congress)
• Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception,(1829 -1916) - striking landscape photographs; includes best-known studies of Yosemite and other celebrated works from California, Washington, and Oregon. (National Gallery of Art)