Born in New Hampshire in 1825, James Wallace Black came to Boston to try his hand as a painter. He soon discovered the world of photography and he became quite fascinated with taking aerial photos and experimenting with magic lanterns. One of his most notable experiments involved a photograph of downtown Boston that he took from a hot-air balloon on October 13, 1860. The Boston Public Library has...

Last mentioned in the July 30th, 1999 Scout Report, the current database represents a redesign and standards upgrade of the inherited data. The collection now includes approximately 6,000 hand-colored photographs, taken at various locations all over Japan, during the Bakumatsu-Meiji period, 1860 - 1920. In addition to searching by photographer, category, keyword, or location, it is now possible to...

The best part of this Web exhibition of Jeff's Wall's painterly photographs is being able to read Wall's interviews and essays while you are viewing thumbnail representations of his pictures. These texts are based on interviews conducted with Wall since 1985, collected from a wide variety of publications, that you may not happen to have tucked under your arm when viewing the pictures full size in...

During his long and distinguished career, anthropologist Joel Martin Halpern has worked in many areas of the globe including Laos, Lapland, and the Balkans. He was able to turn his dissertation at Columbia University into his first book (A Serbian Village) and since that time he has returned for fieldwork numerous times. This digital collection from the Credo Project at the University of...

The American South has been documented by legions of photographers and others seeking to capture its unique visual appearance. John LeRoy Hensel came to Columbia, South Carolina from Ohio during World War II as a bomber pilot instructor. He grew quite fond of the region and he returned after the war's conclusion to open a photography business. Over the next few years, he took hundreds of...

John Muir was a wanderer, a thinker, and a tinkerer of great repute. This digital collection from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California brings together images of this great American for use by researchers, scholars, and anyone else with a penchant for Muir's life and times. The images come from their special collections, and they include items from the formal John Muir Papers...

John Penley is a photographer and political activist closely associated with the squatters' rights movement and housing protests of the 1980s and 1990s in New York City's Lower East Side. This vibrant collection from the New York University Library brings together dozens of his provocative photographs that document the demonstrations, protests, and other political actions in which he took part...

The Sechtl family has been in the photography business for over 150 years, and they have been working on digitizing their extensive archive for use by the general public. Of course, visitors can also visit their museum in the Czech Republic, but this website functions as a great entry point for learning about their body of work. Visitors may wish to start their journey by reading some of the...

The papers of Jule Eisenbud, a psychiatrist, author, and researcher who lived from 1908-1999, were donated to UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) in 2002. A large component of the collection documents Eisenbud's work with Ted Serios, a Chicago bellhop who claimed to be able to produce "thoughtographs," photographic images generated from his thoughts. Eisenbud wrote a book about Serios, ...

Planners, geographers, historians, and environmental scientists all relish the possibilities inherent in a good set of aerial photographs. Such photos can inform curious parties about land use change, ground cover, riverine geography, and a number of other topics. This collection from the Kansas State University Libraries is just the perfect resource to explore these matters. The user interface...