Historical Photography






 
Photography's Beginnings

Photography's Beginnings presents photographs from 1860 to 1880. Included are images from Abraham Lincoln's funeral, carpenters at work, Mescalero Apaches or war documentations by Russian photographers. "At Ease" presents daguerreotype portraits with relaxed and informal poses. And "Selections" is an eclectic group of images ranging from a rare occupational ambrotype of a woman to a photographic postcard. Other new features include a resources page and links to other photohistory sites.

   
Archiving Early America

The page "Town Crier" invites you to inquire about the height or other character traits of former presidents by email, the large section on George Washington offers text, many photos and documents from the Civil War and the presidencies of Washington and Jefferson. But the site offers still more: numerous references, links and bibliographic notes and a search tool for surfers interested in American history.

 
   
 
Detroit Publishing Company

Users will find photographs from the years 1890 to 1920 at this site - 25,000 or maybe even more. Detroit Publishing offers a search and browse feature too. Motifs and topics are really mixed and varied. The index includes: miners and railroad stops, Chopin and Alexander von Humboldt, yacht ports and industry, wheelchairs and leopards.

   
American Memory

American Memory is a very large site of the Library of Congress, including a dozen or more single exhibits, all of them dealing with the culture and history of the American nation. Photographs from the American Civil War are offered (audio and video too), early Daguerreotypes and images from the early days of the movies, 1897-1916.

 
   
 
History of Photography

Andrew Daneman presents here numerous works from the beginnings of the camera and photography: Mary Willumsen's historical photos of Danish nudists, "Tintypes" - examples of a typically American procedure for photograph processing and the history of Danish photography.

   
Time Unveiled, 1965-1995

The German historical museum presents in this exhibition three decades of photographs by Michael Ruetz: world-famous pictures from the APO time (the years after '68), photographs of East Germany from the 60s and 70s, of the Prague spring and of Greece under dictatorship, portraits of Helmut Kohl, Mitterand and other politicians. Especially interesting: the " Timescapes" of Ruetz, rooms and places (here: from Berlin), which he observed over a period of nearly 25 years on celluloid again and again, illustrating historical evolution and changes in time.

 
   
 
Museum of the City of San Francisco

The Museum of the City of San Francisco offers here a plethora of historical texts and photographs. Some pages are of course devoted to the great historical earthquakes and blazes which dot the city's history. Further you will find reports on the gold rush from the middle of the last century, the inauguration of the famous Pony Express, the big railroad construction and the cable car.

   


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