The Albumen Website, put together by art and photograph conservators Timothy Vitale, Paul Messier, and Walter Henry (also known as the Web master for CoOL, Conservation Online), presents the art, history, and science of albumen photographs. The gallery features digital images of albumen prints from several institutions, including the Monterey Museum of Art, Library of Congress, and George Eastman...

The California Museum of Photography at the University of California-Riverside, (last mentioned in the May 30, 2000 Scout Report for Social Sciences) is a site worth visiting again and again; there is always something new to look at in a variety of areas: photography history, California lifestyle and culture, fine art photography, and photo journalism. For example, the current Eadweard Muybridge...

This site from the National Museum of American History examines the famous sequences of photographs taken by the photographer Eadweard Muybridge to explore the dynamics of human and animal locomotion. (It was Muybridge's photographs, spaced only split seconds apart, that first proved that at one point in a horse's gallop all four legs are off the ground at once.) The site features a number of...

Lousiana State University's Digital Library, in partnership with the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Louisiana State Museum, makes two image databases available: The Preservation of Louisiana's Treasures Program, about 200 images of Southern fine art, primarily 20th-century paintings and photographs from the Roger Houston Ogden collection; and the Rowles Stereograph Collection, 386...

The PhotoSeed website is committed to "bringing to light the growth and artistic vision of 19th & 20th century photography." Visitors will note that the background images on the site rotate, and taking a careful glance is a fine way to get a feel for the general milieu. Clicking on the Highlights area allows visitors to browse through photos of British salons in the late 19th century, an Italian...

Robert E. Williams was an African-American photographer who had his own studio in Augusta, Georgia from 1888 to 1908. During this period Williams took thousands of photos documenting domestic life, dwellings, baptism rituals, harvesting and transporting cotton, vehicles and transportation, and family life. The staff members at the University of Georgia have curated this collection of 84 images...

Working from his country estate near Chalon-sur-Saone, France, Joseph Nicephore Niepce began to experiment with photographic processes in 1816. He was inspired by the newly invented art of lithography, and he began to work on his own way of capturing images. He began by placing engravings, made transparent, onto engraving stones coated with a light-sensitive varnish of his own composition. As he...

This companion web site for an exhibition at the British Library is difficult to browse, but never the less offers a look at some fascinating images from the pages of some of first books to be illustrated with photographs and photographically produced prints, published in England beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. Examples such as Philip Henry Delamotte's photos of the Crystal Palace, an...