If you've ever tried to modify a photo with any degree of complexity, it can be tough. LightZone makes this entire process quite simple and easy. While the program is designed for more expert users, the interface here is user-friendly and visitors will note that there are over 120 filters and customizable options to take advantage of via the program. This version is compatible with all operating...

The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War is being celebrated by museums, historical organizations, and of course, the Smithsonian Institution. Along with lectures, talks, and so on, they are also working on a few new digital collections. One such collection is the Liljenquist Family Collection, which contains over 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs. This remarkable collection of...

The Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago is home to a number of architectural landmarks, including 19th century mansions with bold mansard roofs, a former seminary on the grounds of DePaul University, and other delights. In 2000, DePaul sociologist Wanda Harold set out to photograph a number of these unique structures. This digital collection includes 200 of her images, and this project was made...

The Long Trail in Vermont is the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the United States. In the early 20th century, the Green Mountain Club began to build extensive trail facilities along the way, including shelters and other such structures. The Club also documented their activities, and this collection from the University of Vermont contains over 900 black-and-white and hand-colored lantern...

As Roger May, the founder and curator of Looking at Appalachia, notes, Appalachia has often been associated exclusively - and unfairly - with poverty. This project, founded 50 years after Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty" unwittingly helped create such stereotypes, seeks to set the record straight by snapping pictures of the people and places of the region in all their complexity. Readers may like...

Born in the heartland city of Omaha, Nebraska, Louis Lloyd McAllister moved to Burlington, Vermont as a young man. McAllister's father was a native Vermonter, and the pull of New England proved too much to resist. After settling down, McAllister put his panorama camera to good use and he began taking large photographs of buildings in Burlington, along with shots of construction projects,...

Louis Prang (1824-1909) was a publisher and printer based in Boston, Massachusetts who earned the nickname, "The Father of the American Christmas Card." The American Antiquarian Society has created this website, which is dedicated to Prang and his work. As this website reveals, Prang was not only an accomplished printer but also an early advocate for art education in public schools. He also...

For a look into the past of campus life at the Louisiana State University (LSU), you can't do much better than perusing through this photograph collection. Created by the LSU Library, the collection includes 475 photographs which range from 1886 to 1925. The photographs include scenes of student life, rousing activities, sports, noted faculty, buildings, and laboratories. Visitors can use the...

Based on the approximately five hundred prints in the collection of Harvard's Houghton Library, as well as negatives and slides from the Harvard Art Museum's Lyonel Feininger Archive, this website allows visitors to search and browse hundreds of Feininger's photographs created over a period of fifty years. The types of material range from early family snapshots to color slides from the 1940s and...

Every state’s capitol city has a story to tell, and the story of Madison, Wisconsin is one that is intimately connected with its location within the state (and on a narrow isthmus, to boot) and to its relationship with the University of Wisconsin. Drawing on the resources of the Wisconsin Historical Society, this site is designed to offer a host of primary documents and visual ephemera related to...