With such an elegant title as Palace of the Governors, visitors will surely be impressed by this website from the New Mexico History Museum. The digital archives available on this site range from photographs to maps to documents and beyond. The About section on the homepage explains in great detail the holdings of the Collection, which covers 1850 to the present and "focuses on the history and...
You can travel to 18th century Paris via this Getty Museum exhibition, that "brings together a wide variety of objects from candlesticks and firedogs, to furniture and clocks, dressing gowns and jewelry, musical instruments and games all from elite society in Paris, the fashion and cultural epicenter of Europe at the time." An interactive feature of the website allows visitors to explore the...
The Peabody Essex Museum was formed in 1992 as part of the merger between two fine institutions based in Salem, Massachusetts: the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Essex Institute. Since that time, the Peabody Essex Museum has seen a major addition (designed by Moshe Safdie) and experienced a resurgence of interest in its diverse collections, which encompass maritime items, works on paper, and...
Joseph J. Pennell was a successful commercial studio photographer who worked in Junction City, Kansas from the early 1890s to the early 1920s. During his long tenure in this quaint burg he managed to document all facets of town life. Through portraits of local celebrities, prominent families, soldiers, and photos of local businesses the culture of this town at the turn of the century was...
Created by Andrew Tedstone, Photo Grabbr is a fine way to download photo sets of note from Flickr accounts. If you are the type of person that wants to take a closer glimpse at landscapes of Mongolia, family gatherings in Moldova, or trips to Monrovia, you'll want to give this handy application a look. This version is compatible with computers running Mac OS X 10.4 and newer.
Those persons looking for a way to quickly move their Facebook photographs to another social network or location will enjoy Photograbber. This application can be modified to download all tagged photos, albums, and even comments. Visitors can read the FAQ section for more details, and this particular version is compatible with all operating systems, including Linux.
To celebrate 20 years of collecting photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, this exhibition presents works by 38 photographers, 20 of whom are featured on the website: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugène Atget, Hippolyte Bayard, Walker Evans, Roger Fenton, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, Lewis Hine, André Kertész, Gustave Le Gray, Dorothea Lange,...
The Boston Globe once referred to the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University as "one-stop shopping for the photo buff". For visitors who can't make it into the Hub, the PRC website offers a cornucopia of visually elegant online exhibits, coupled with more basic information about their various programs and educational resources. First-time users of the site may wish to stop by the...
Between 1935 and 1946, Helen Balfour Morrison went on at least three photography expeditions from Chicago's North Shore to the Inner Bluegrass region of Kentucky, where she photographed African Americans living in rural freetowns or hamlets in the area. Her photographs and personal papers were donated to the Newberry Library in 2016 and are encapsulated in the online exhibition Photographing...
For over five decades, Frank R. Snyder documented the life and times of Miami University, and the city of Oxford, Ohio from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th century. Snyder was under the employ of the university during much of this time, and after his death in 1958 his son Frank King Snyder donated over 4,000 of these photographs to the school. Visitors to this site will enjoy access to a...