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Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Collection

http://www.clevelandart.org/Explore/department.asp?level=1&deptgroup=6

A virtual tour of the photography collection. Although a very large number of prints may be viewed, no search tool is currently available.

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Erwin E. Smith Collection

http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/smith/

Guide to the Smith collection at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, including biography and photographs. Includes teaching resources.

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European Photographs Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/artemis/results.asp?pk=2552&so=2&sd=0

Includes works by Jean-Eugene Auguste Atget, August Sander, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert McPherson and Gustave Le Gray, among many others. Searchable by artist and title.

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George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film

http://www.geh.org/photographers.html

The Photography Collection includes photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. Searchable by photographer.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

The LOC prints and photographs collections number more than 13.7 million images. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=19

The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japan. Information page with examples in roughly chronological order.

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Moderna Museet, Stockholm

http://www.modernamuseet.se/v4/templates/template3.asp?id=1474

Includes selections from the Helmer Backstrom collection and the Gernsheim Collection, focusing on older processes. Especially strong representation of Swedish photography.

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Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne

http://www.elysee.ch/collections/collection_en.html

The collection of the Museum (including the Elysée Foundation collection). This section presents the most important portfolios.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=collection&par1=14&par3=70

The collection illustrates the evolution of early-20th-century photographic styles, beginning with photographs that imitate romantic painting styles. The MFAH´s collection is strongest in the new approaches to photography that emerged in the second half of the 20th century. Information page plus collection highlights.

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National Archives of Canada: Photography

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020115_e.html

The National Archives has acquired over twenty-two million photographs illustrating Canadian reality, and certain aspects of the world in general. The search tool allows to consult almost 400,000 descriptions of photographs, as well as to have access to some 10,000 digitized images on-line.

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggphoto/ggphoto-main1.html

The Photography collection of the NGA includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs by European and American photographers. Information page plus tour of collection.

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National Image Library

http://images.fws.gov/

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service's online collection of public domain photographs.

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NOAA Photo Library

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

Searchable photography collection focusing on the environment in the United States.

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Peabody Essex Museum

http://www.pem.org/collections/photography.php

The photography collection comprises more than a half million rare and vintage images representing nearly every kind of photographic format and process, and featuring nineteenth-century photographs of Asia, maritime images, early American photographic portraits, as well as architectural and landscape images.

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Smithsonian Photographs

http://photo2.si.edu/

Photography galleries covering topics ranging from air and space, to science, nature, technology, history, people, and places.

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