The Archives Service Center and the Digital Research Library at the University of Pittsburgh have made over 1,200 pictures of Pittsburgh taken by the Pittsburgh City Photographer between 1901 and 1969 available online. Included are views of Pittsburgh parks and recreation facilities, athletic and mayoral events, general street scenes and traffic, as well as interior and exterior shots of familiar...

Out of the vast universe of available photo gallery software packages, Piwigo distinguishes itself with a snappy user interface and a set of customizable features. Foremost among these features is a category "tree" which lets users create photo categories that expand and flatten the tree structure to view all the photos. Visitors can also set up user permissions and also create rating tabs for...

The British Library has a spectacular online and physical exhibit of photographs of the 1800s made available here. The website has a minute-long video introduction to the exhibit that starts upon arriving at the homepage. Visitors can "view exhibition online" by clicking on the entitled link near the bottom of the page. The exhibition is divided into eight themes of 19th-century life, such as...

Porter Thayer was born in 1882 in Williamsville, Vermont and began photographing his surroundings in 1906. He also had an apple orchard and he got caught up in the postcard craze that reached Vermont around this time. Interestingly enough, a business directory from 1909 notes that he would come to anyone's home and make images for "a reasonable fee." At the height of his career, he sold over 1,197...

Increase Lapham came west to Wisconsin via New York and Kentucky in 1836, and he soon established himself as one of the state's premier experts on the natural history of the Badger State. In fact, he was the state's first scientist, and by the time he died in 1875, he had created the first accurate maps of the state, made investigations into local effigy mounds, and provided his services in a host...

The Poweshiek History Preservation Project is a joint effort between the Grinnell College Libraries and the Drake Community Library to preserve the history of the people and places of Poweshiek County. Over the years, dozens of community members have brought in letters, photographs, scrapbooks, ledgers, and other documents that tell the area's history. This site contains over 120 items, including...

Set and costume designer Randy Barceló was born in Cuba, and he became well known for his unique designs for a range of Broadway and off-Broadway theatrical productions. Barceló also worked on designs for the opera and ballet, and he was also the first Hispanic nominated for a Tony Award. The University of Miami Libraries has a number of his oversized costume and set designs, costume plots,...

The Smithsonian Archives of American Art have an online exhibition of the papers of Russian-born artist Raphael Soyer, who was one of the "leading realist painters and printmakers, often depicting Depression-era transients, Manhattan streetscapes, shoppers, and women at work." The Smithsonian digitized the majority of Soyer's papers, and they now have 6050 images. The "More About this...

Curated by Stephen C. Pinson (now at the Metropolitan Museum), Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library (NYPL) ran from September 30, 2010, through January 2, 2011. This exhibit was intended as a follow-on to the 1981 exhibition, "96 Images: From Talbot to Stieglitz." The online version primarily features portraits created by approximately 75 photographers,...

The world is a richer place for the efforts of those who have sought to document the various social and cultural transformations that have taken place around the globe during the twentieth century. One must only think of A.J. Liebling’s dispatches from Europe during the World War II or Robert Capa’s images of the Spanish Civil War to be reminded of the importance of such materials. This website...