Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center: Photography
- http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/photo/
- Begun in 1963 with Ransom's purchase of the Gernsheim Collection, the Center's Photography Collections encompass the history of photography. In addition to the world's first photograph, the Collections feature significant holdings of numerous notable early photographers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
- 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.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=19
- The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japan. Information page with examples in roughly chronological order.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=collection&par1=14&par3=70
- The collection illustrates the evolution of early-20th-century photographic styles, beginning with photographs that imitate romantic painting styles. The MFAH´s collection is strongest in the new approaches to photography that emerged in the second half of the 20th century. Information page plus collection highlights.
National Archives of Canada: Photography
- http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020115_e.html
- The National Archives has acquired over twenty-two million photographs illustrating Canadian reality, and certain aspects of the world in general. The search tool allows to consult almost 400,000 descriptions of photographs, as well as to have access to some 10,000 digitized images on-line.
Peabody Essex Museum
- http://www.pem.org/collections/photography.php
- The photography collection comprises more than a half million rare and vintage images representing nearly every kind of photographic format and process, and featuring nineteenth-century photographs of Asia, maritime images, early American photographic portraits, as well as architectural and landscape images.
Smithsonian Photographs
- http://photo2.si.edu/
- Photography galleries covering topics ranging from air and space, to science, nature, technology, history, people, and places.
