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19th Century Photo Collecting
Highlights a personal collection of Daguerreotypes and Union Cases including individual commentary about each image.
A Sad Century Tale
Collection of vintage photos and postcards from Russian family albums, mainly featuring families and children.
Album 1900
Historical photographs of people, mainly taken in Germany from 1870 to 1930.
American Museum of Photography
View great images from the history of photography, daguerreotypes to Ansel Adams. Features Americana, Civil War, Wild West, portraits, scenes, photojournalism, plus services for collectors and researchers.
Art and Medicine
A resource for scholars interested in vintage medical photography and clinical portraits. Includes the complete translation and 52 plates of "Klinische Abbildungen" by Heinrich Curschmann.
Bill's Antique Photo Pages
Personal collection of antique photographs.
Burns Archive
Collection of over 700,000 vintage photographs specializing in medical and historical images. Services offered include stock photograph licensing, research, and creation of exhibitions and documentaries.
Carte-de-Visite, Victorian Photographs
An Archive of small victorian photographs useful to those interested in the history of fashion and photography.
Civil War Family Photographs
Site devoted to sharing private family Civil War photos. View images organized by Union, Confederate, and Veterans photo sections.
Daguerrean Broadside
Features color images of daguerreotypes. Includes information about each image and links to other daguerreotype sites.
Daguerreotypes at Harvard
An online exhibition of daguerreotypes selected from Harvard's extensive collection. Includes notes and information about each image.
Digipic
Gallery of antique photographs from Imperial Russia including actors, children, men, women, military, and interior views.
Eldorado Web Productions Gallery
Collection of historic photographs taken in the Philippines and other Asian countries from the early 1900's to 1930. Includes steam ships, people, churches, rural housing, and U.S. Army Air Corps photos.
Fine Antique Cameras
Display and collection of classic cameras, stereoscopic cameras, magic lanterns, stereoviews, viewers, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes.
Fine Photographs
Brief story of the Daguerreotype. Includes an image gallery, shopping, and links.
Historical Graphics Gallery
Exhibits of photographs, political cartoons, advertising, and other 19th and 20th century pictures and illustrations, from Napoleon through the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt.
Mendocino County Post Cards
Collection of historical views of Mendocino County, California. Photos include towns, street views, buildings, schools, mills, and people.
Mirror Images Daguerreotype Gallery
Site devoted to the history of the Daguerreotype. Includes information on identifying images, a photo gallery, email greeting cards, and links.
North American Tour ca 1885
A site created to help try to identify the people and locations in a collection of 19th Century round photographs. Identified views include Yosemite and Hotel Del Monte, a Victorian hotel in Monterey CA.
Photographies Stereoscopiques 1850-1871
Online gallery of early stereoviews of Paris, Montmatre, Lyon, plus other areas of France and Egypt. Includes a brief history of photography, and links.
Photographs of Leeds
Gallery of vintage photos of Leeds, U.K. Also offers a selection of old advertisements.
Pop Photographica
Incorporates vintage photographs onto 3-dimensional everyday objects used for interior design. Includes background information, gallery, and links.
Silver & Gold: Cased Images of the California
View rare and historic daguerreotypes and ambrotypes made between 1848 and 1860, presented by the Oakland Museum of California. Includes descriptive commentary for each image.
Stanhopes.info
Offering images, history, and information on Stanhopes, the miniature microphotographic lenses incorporated into many novelty collectables produced from the mid-19th century onwards.
Swastika Gold Mine
Collection of photographs printed from the original glass negatives that chronicle work at the Swastika Gold Mining Company site of 1911. Includes history and vintage news items about the mine.
The Daguerreian Society
Dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype. This site features galleries, extensive resources, and information.
The Library of Congress
Extensive online exhibitions of historic photographs and documents. Includes the American Memory Historical Collections, a display of American history in words, sound, and pictures.
Victorian Photographs
A collection of Victorian Studio photographs known as Cartes-de-Visite arranged by decade.
Vintage Pix: Images of Women in the Past
Collection of historic photos of women from the 1860s to the 1930s. Categories of photos are organized by decade or image theme including courtship, women at work, and hats.
Wallace Nutting
A cross reference library consisting of hundreds of web pages of Wallace Nutting photographs and other collectibles.
William R. Howell
History and selected photographs of a forgotten 19th-Century photographer.