The National Archives hosts an online collection of 226 Ansel Adams photographs of National Parks. These photographs were originally intended to comprise a mural for the U.S. Department of the Interior, but this planned project was discontinued when the U.S. entered World War II. While most of the photographs in this online collection were intended for that project, the collection also includes a...

Over the past few years, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has conducted a plethora of interviews with America's distinguished roster of talented authors, musicians, painters, and other creative types. A new podcast is released each Thursday, and visitors can browse the offerings here by date or alphabetically. Some of the more recent interviewees include George Wein (noted jazz concert...

The exquisite visual offerings created by National Geographic over the past 125 years are well known by the general public around the world. This fine corner of their website brings together the work of their many fine staff photographers, videographers, and community members who contribute to this expansive brocade. After creating a free login, visitors can start their journey through the site by...

Over the past century, a host of photographers have documented the grounds and buildings of the National Parks for the National Park Service, and in doing so have created a collection that contains over two million images. Some of these eminent photographers include such personages as Jack Boucher, Arno B. Cammerer, and Abbie Rowe. The National Park Service has recently placed 2000 of these images...

The National Portrait Gallery in Britain has a great digital collection of artists and photographers speaking on the process of creating specific portraits, as well as a collection of sitters speaking about their experience of being the subjects of those portraits. Visitors interested in reading about the sitter, the artist who painted them, and the actual portrait, need only choose from the list...

During his career, Harrison Forman worked as a foreign correspondent for a number of media outlets, including the New York Times and NBC. The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee holds over 98,000 of his photographs, and so far they have created thematic collections from his travels to Afghanistan, Tibet, and China. This rather unique addition contains over 90 photographs taken by Forman in Poland...

This free, non-commercial website was created by professional nature photographer and former aquatic ecologist Bjørn Rørslett to exhibit his remarkable photographic work. A stand-out section of the website, titled Flowers in Ultraviolet, provides a glimpse into the visual world of pollinators by displaying fantastic ultraviolet and visible light images of different flower species. The website...

The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has worked on a number of creative digital projects over the past several years, and this new initiative is worth a look. With financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), their American Geographical Society (AGS) Library has been able to create an online library of historic images from its substantial archive. The goal of the...

The Yale Digital Humanities Lab presents Neural Neighbors, a project intended to enable users to "identify visual similarity at scale across collections of photographs and videos." Currently, the project uses a subset selected from the Beinecke Library's Meserve-Kunhardt Collection, which was assembled by Frederick Hill Meserve, who collected photographs between 1897 and his death in 1962. This...

Photographs offer a powerful way to observe how libraries have changed over time, capturing the various ways these institutions have adapted to meet the needs of their patrons, evolving social roles, and even architectural trends. With the New York Public Library Visual Materials collection, visitors can browse hundreds of images taken at a variety of New York branch libraries over the past two...