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Extensive online exhibitions of historic photographs and documents. Includes the American Memory Historical Collections, a display of American history in words, sound, and pictures.
http://www.loc.gov/

Collection of over 700,000 vintage photographs specializing in medical and historical images. Services offered include stock photograph licensing, research, and creation of exhibitions and documentaries.
http://www.burnsarchive.com/

A cross reference library consisting of hundreds of web pages of Wallace Nutting photographs and other collectibles.
http://www.wallacenuttinglibrary.com

Site devoted to the history of the Daguerreotype. Includes information on identifying images, a photo gallery, email greeting cards, and links.
http://www.lb-web.com/daguerreotypes/

Features color images of daguerreotypes. Includes information about each image and links to other daguerreotype sites.
http://www.geocities.com/~daguerreotype/

Dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype. This site features galleries, extensive resources, and information.
http://www.daguerre.org

Brief story of the Daguerreotype. Includes an image gallery, shopping, and links.
http://www.daguerre.de/

A collection of Victorian Studio photographs known as Cartes-de-Visite arranged by decade.
http://homepages.tesco.net/~roger.vaughan/

Collection of historic photos of women from the 1860s to the 1930s. Categories of photos are organized by decade or image theme including courtship, women at work, and hats.
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/4660/

A site created to help try to identify the people and locations in a collection of 19th Century round photographs. Identified views include Yosemite and Hotel Del Monte, a Victorian hotel in Monterey CA.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shoebox

Exhibits of photographs, political cartoons, advertising, and other 19th and 20th century pictures and illustrations, from Napoleon through the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/

An online exhibition of daguerreotypes selected from Harvard's extensive collection. Includes notes and information about each image.
http://preserve.harvard.edu/exhibits/daguerreotype/intro1.html

Site devoted to sharing private family Civil War photos. View images organized by Union, Confederate, and Veterans photo sections.
http://members.tripod.com/~cwphotos/

View rare and historic daguerreotypes and ambrotypes made between 1848 and 1860, presented by the Oakland Museum of California. Includes descriptive commentary for each image.
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/silver.html

History and selected photographs of a forgotten 19th-Century photographer.
http://home.earthlink.net/~roho1

Display and collection of classic cameras, stereoscopic cameras, magic lanterns, stereoviews, viewers, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes.
http://www.vintagecameras.net/

Incorporates vintage photographs onto 3-dimensional everyday objects used for interior design. Includes background information, gallery, and links.
http://www.popphotographica.com/

A resource for scholars interested in vintage medical photography and clinical portraits. Includes the complete translation and 52 plates of "Klinische Abbildungen" by Heinrich Curschmann.
http://www.artandmedicine.com/

Personal collection of antique photographs.
http://www.billblanton.com/

Collection of historic photographs taken in the Philippines and other Asian countries from the early 1900's to 1930. Includes steam ships, people, churches, rural housing, and U.S. Army Air Corps photos.
http://www.netpci.com/~eldorado/gallery-asian/asian!gallery.htm

An Archive of small victorian photographs useful to those interested in the history of fashion and photography.
http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/

Offering images, history, and information on Stanhopes, the miniature microphotographic lenses incorporated into many novelty collectables produced from the mid-19th century onwards.
http://www.stanhopes.info/

Collection of historical views of Mendocino County, California. Photos include towns, street views, buildings, schools, mills, and people.
http://www.pacificsites.com/~rparker/

Online gallery of early stereoviews of Paris, Montmatre, Lyon, plus other areas of France and Egypt. Includes a brief history of photography, and links.
http://photostereo.org/

Gallery of antique photographs from Imperial Russia including actors, children, men, women, military, and interior views.
http://www.digipic.netfirms.com/

Historical photographs of people, mainly taken in Germany from 1870 to 1930.
http://www.album1900.com/

Collection of vintage photos and postcards from Russian family albums, mainly featuring families and children.
http://www.wahonowin.com/

Gallery of vintage photos of Leeds, U.K. Also offers a selection of old advertisements.
http://leedsoldphotos.co.uk/

Collection of photographs printed from the original glass negatives that chronicle work at the Swastika Gold Mining Company site of 1911. Includes history and vintage news items about the mine.
http://ca.geocities.com/swastikagoldmine@rogers.com/