This online collection from the Portland Art Museum offers readers a look into some of the best-known photography portfolios created during the five decades between 1940 and 1990. As the site explains, these portfolios were "considered documents rather than works of art, they were typically made for governments or captains of industry. They covered a variety of subjects, including Roman ruins, the...

FotoMix 9 provides a nice and free tool for interested parties to crop, resize, rotate, enhance, mix and match their photos to create a range of images without the learning curve of higher-end software. For those unfamiliar with the tools, the site includes a helpful tutorial to get acquainted with the program. This particular version is compatible with Windows XP and newer.

As with many states across the country, Louisiana remains strongly committed to creating and maintaining a digital database that accurately reflects their culture and history. They have done a fine job, and the Frank-Bertacci Collection is a real treat, particularly for students of the history of New Orleans and its transformation in the twentieth century. This photograph collection includes work...

For 47 years, photographer and newspaperman Frank Hohenberger roamed around the highways and byways of Brown County, Indiana recording the life and times of this unique corner of the state. From time to time he also made forays into Kentucky, South Carolina, New England, Canada and Mexico. Once, he offered the memorable observation that "pictures speak the only language all mankind can...

For those not in the know, the phrase "Franklin Furnace" might sound like a type of 19th century heating device. In fact, the Franklin Furnace organization has been dedicated to the proposition that avant-garde art is a very worthwhile endeavor, and their delightful website presents fine information about their work, and about the world of avant-garde art more generally. Based in the Fort Greene...

The end of the year can be a joyous time, but assembling holiday photos can be a real challenge. FxFoto 5.0.066 is a nice way to edit and assemble photos with relatively little fuss. The application can remove red-eye and blemishes from photos, add frames and borders, and even correct colors. As with most programs of this type, user can also create a slide show with seamless transitions and snappy...

Users looking for a way to put their summer solstice celebration photos online should take a look at this very handy application. With this version of FxFoto, users can create animated slide shows, collages, and scrapbooks. Of course, they can also tweak various images (should they require it) via the use of a blemish removal feature and an image enhancement tool. This particular version is...

Gay Bolling Shepperson was the administrator of three successive federal relief projects in Georgia: the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). This remarkable collection from the Atlanta History Center brings together images that document the activities of these various entities in the 1930s and 1940s....

Arnold Genthe had an urbane German upbringing in Berlin, Frankfurt, Korbach, and Hamburg. Born in 1869, he wanted to become an artist, but a family relation discouraged him. Fortunately, he ended up moving to America in 1895 to become a tutor, and while there in began to experiment with photography. Over the following five decades, he would go on to document the aftermath of the San Francisco...

Geoff Charles was a Welsh newspaper photographer for 50 years, and donated his entire collection of 120,000 negatives to the National Library of Wales. The 6000 photos from World War II that have been digitized and are available on this National Library of Wales website highlight the war effort in Wales, as well as serve as a testament to a rural way of life that has since disappeared. The...