Historic Photographs

Week 1 - People


Sample photographs

Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
Photo 4
Photo 5


Reference links

National Geographic Photography Timeline

History Detectives on Analyzing Photos


"Making Sense of Documentary Photography"


Featured photograph collections at the Library of Congress

Daguerreotypes

Brady-Handy Collection

African-American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition

Bain Collection


National Child Labor Committee Collection

Ansel Adams photos of Manzanar


Additional research tools

 Google Images

Corbis Images

Getty Images

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Christine's YouTube Channel




Week 2 - Places

Sample photographs

Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3A | Photo 3B
Photo 4
Photo 5


Reference links

Landscape photography: documentary and the modern sublime

How The Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis

Panoramic photography



Featured photograph collections at the Library of Congress

Fenton Crimean War Photographs

Photochrom Prints

Panoramic Photographs

Matson Photograph Collection

Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South

Korab Collection


Additional research tools

Google Maps Street View

What Was There | Explore Photos

SkyscraperPage Forum

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One Month in Nepal



Week 3 - Things


Sample photographs

Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3A | Photo 3B | Photo 3C
Photo 4
Photo 5


Reference links

Commercial Photography

“Top 10 Time-Lapse Videos Show Nature at Work”

“12 Long-Exposure & Time-Lapse Photographers”



Featured photograph collections at the Library of Congress

Stereograph Cards

Tissandier Collection


Wright Brothers Negatives


 World's Transportation Commission

Curtis (Edward S.) Collection

Johnston (Frances Benjamin) Collection


Additional research tools

eBay

Facebook > San Fernando Valley Relics

Flickr | Photobucket | Pixlr

Snapfish | Shutterfly