Panoramic photographs that immerse their audience in a landscape have been in vogue throughout the history of photographic enterprises. With this in mind, users should not be surprised to learn of the existence of the Virtual Sweden website. Established by Jonas Carlson in 2003, the site contains 360 degree panoramic images taken by Carlson from a wide variety of locales across the globe. Of...

Often the true legacy of an artist goes unappreciated until after they pass away, and the case of artist Vivian Maier is a rather intriguing story. Maier lived in Chicago, and from the 1950s to the 1990s, she took well over 100,000 photographs of the city landscape and its denizens. Just after her death in 2009, John Maloof found her collection of negatives at a furniture and antiques auction. The...

In the first half of the 20th century, the well-known African American attorney Walter L. Gordon had his office next to the African American newspaper, the California Eagle. The photographers for the paper often shot pictures of Black social life in Los Angeles, and once printed these photos were often discarded. Gordon saved many of these photos and began collecting the images, which often...

Ward Morgan spent almost fifty years of his life chronicling the people, places, and activities he knew best around southwestern Michigan in the 20th century. He documented industry rise and fall, weddings galore, company Christmas parties, and the streetscapes of Kalamazoo. This digital collection of almost 1,000 images is culled from a 27,000 item negative collection given to the Western...

Ward Morgan spent decades documenting life in and around Kalamazoo, Michigan. He went into interiors of women's shoe stores, took photos of students in classrooms, and photographed folks gathering for a society meeting. Most of his work took place in the middle decades of the 20th century, and these everyday photos eventually found their way to Western Michigan University. Visitors can browse...

The Wellcome Images website is a veritable cornucopia of images that includes Tibetan Buddhist paintings, ancient Sanskrit manuscripts, and beautifully illuminated Persian books. The Biomedical Collection, also found here, includes over 40,000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. A good way to get started is by using the Favourites tab. From here, visitors will find...

Transferring and accessing photos remotely can be a bit trying, and this helpful application can assist users with such an endeavor. This version of WiFi Photo Transfer will give users the ability to enter a web address into their smartphone's web browser and they will have access to their home computer's photos. Users should note that this version requires an iPhone or iPad running iOS 4.0 and...

William E. Worden was a very active photographer in and around San Francisco, working tirelessly to document the city during the early 20th century. The San Francisco Public Library is offering over 430 images, captured by Worden from 1911 to 1912, for general consumption. The photos are divided into eight areas, including Jordan Park, Ingleside Terrace, and the fabulous Interior of a Victorian...

Born in 1915, Willard S. Stewart worked for the Federal Writers Project in Delaware as a photographer during the 1930s. Stewart also worked as a project photographer for the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), and he documented a significant portion of the state as part of these two very ambitious projects. The University of Delaware Digital Collections project has created this online...

From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe and this collection of images and writings, at Duke University, spans more than 30 years and includes over 50,000 items. Created with the assistance of Duke students, the online collection contains almost 5,000 scanned photographic images, as well as over 1,000 scanned...