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Photica Project - Contains information and articles on historical photographers and groups.
City-Gallery.com - Information on photography, family photographs and images, and genealogy. Focus is on 19th century photography.
Arab Foundation for the Image - A non-profit association that collaborates with Elysée Foundation in Lausanne to promote photography in the Middle East and the North Africa by locating, collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of that region.
Central Pacific Railroad - Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad.
Women in Photography Archive - Focuses on the role of women in photography. Includes essays on women photographers and an online gallery.
A History of Photography - Contains an extensive history, from earliest times to the 1920s. Includes information on all significant photographers with biographical data.
Georgian Museum of Photography - Virtual museum of images from photography, including portraits, architecture, cultural and historical monuments.
Photographs: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Images, history, and technical information about their extensive collection of photographs.
Collodions and Clopinettes - Articles by Pierre G. Harmant, Paul Marillier, R. Derek Wood, and Jacques Roquencourt on Niépce, Daguerre, and other pioneer photographers.
Albumen Photographs - Presents the art and science of albumen printing, contemporary research, conservation and treatment of images.
Magic Lanterns - Description of the medium plus information on optical systems, components, lanterns types and slide identification.
Pinhole Photography - History of pinhole photography, including theory and construction details.
Tintypes and Daguerreotypes - Article defines what tintypes and daguerreotypes are, the history of the processes, the sizes they came in, and the years they were popular.
History of Photography Timeline - A detailed timeline of photography from ancient times to the present.
Painting and Photography - Some notes on the history of photography, mostly concerning the relationship between painting and photography.
Photo Revue - All about Czech and Slovak photography, history, theory, reviews, profiles.
Photography in the 1840s - About Photography - Comparing the Calotype and the Daguerreotype, the first Welsh photograph, Irish pioneers, and French advances in the art of photography.
Latin American Photography 1840-1920. M & M Cuarterolo's Collection - Large selection of early images of Argentina and other Latin American countries and information on the photographers active in the region between 1840 and 1920.
The Big Six Portrait Photographers - Monographs on six professional portrait photographers from the turn-of-the-century.
Finding Photographers - A worldwide index of the books and websites that list photographers and when they worked.
About Photography: Nudes 1920-1940 - Consists of on the history of nude photography from 1920 to 1940, emphasizing the roles of the famous master photographers. No images.
Lafayette Negative Archive - Catalogue of vintage photographs made by the Lafayette studio of London, containing images made between 1887 and the 1930s, categorized by subject. Has explanatory articles.
Historic Photo Archive - Kodachrome dating guide for vintage slides.
Index of UK photographers up to c1950 - Indexes and links for UK photographers, county by county, for the 19th and early 20th century.
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.
Early Visual Media - History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions.
Cuarterolo Archive - The Cuarterolo archive is an image bank focused on 19th century Argentine and Latin American photography that houses over 5000 historic photographs.
Mathew J. Steffens - Steffens was THE photographer to Chicago's first "Gold Coast" residents...the richest of the rich. Commodore Steffens, as he was known because of his steam yachting and yacht club presidency, was one of Chicago's foremost society photographer from 1872 to the 1910's.
Bosse, Henry Peter: Photographs of the Mississippi River - Collection of Bosse's photographs of the Mississippi (1883-1892) with an essay by Michael Conner who rediscovered his photographs in the 1980s.
Cut & Paste - A History Of Photomontage - Covering the artists involved in photomontage in the Berlin Dada movement, 1980s politics, and the present day.
The Weston Exposure Meter Site - Site dedicated to the Weston Exposure Meter from the earliest days to the Euromaster 3. Includes Photos, information and instruction books, and history of the company and its founder.
Midley History of Photography - Presents essays by R. Derek Wood on the history of early photography, the daguerreotype and diorama.
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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