Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
displays 1,395 photographs by Van Vechten, primarily studio portraits of people involved in the arts, including musicians, dancers, artists, literati, theatrical, film, and television actors and actresses.

American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
consists of 4,500 photographs of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States taken between 1891 and 1936. These photographs show a wide range of American topography and its forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses. Comparisons of early photographs with later views highlight changes resulting from natural alterations of the landscape, disturbances from industry and development, and effective natural resource usage.

Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865
contains more than 1,100 photographs, most of which were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady. The collection includes scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle and consequences of battle, portraits of Confederate and Union officers and enlisted men. 

Mathew Brady Portraits
survey the life and work of this pioneering photojournalist and portraitist best known for his photographs of the Civil War. Visitors can read about Brady's contributions toward legitimizing photography as an art form, see who Brady photographed, and learn about the photographic processes that he used.

American Masters: Edward Curtis
offers an essay, timeline, and other information about this photographer who took more than 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over 80 American Indian tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. This is the companion website for a PBS film about Curtis, "Coming to Light." 

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
contains links to thousands of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. The Farm Security Administrations's photographs cover the Great Depression, while the Office of War Administration's photographs look at the mobilization effort for World War II.

Pictures of World War II
presents more than 100 photos from battlefronts around the world. Topics include aviation, battle of Britain, France, Germany, the Holocaust, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Japan, naval battles, Philippine Islands, prisoners, and victory.

Pictures of Indians in the United States
presents nearly 200 photos and drawings of Native Americans -- agriculture, burial customs, councils, dances, fishing, food preparation, homes, hunting, portraits, pottery, villages, and more.

Panoramic Photography
presents more than 20 panoramic photos: Chattanooga, TN, from a hilltop after the Union Army captured the city (1864); San Francisco after the earthquake (1906); the Panama Canal during its construction (1909); farm buildings at a ranch in Oklahoma (date unknown); Washington, D.C., viewed from atop the Washington Monument (1916); a machine gun battalion before being sent to fight in World War I (1917); and more.

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
looks at surrealism, war, and other themes in photography after World War I, when it spread as form of art and a symbol of modernity across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland.

Photomuse
is a resource for scholarship in the history of photography. Search a database of photos by various criteria: title, date, description, photographer, country, and others. Discover the chronology of historic developments in photography, beginning with announcement on January 7, 1839, at the French Academy of Science in Paris that Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre had invented the daguerreotype.

Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
shows striking photos of Aleutian clouds, the Araca River (Brazil), Atlas Mountains (Morocco), Guinea-Bissau (West Africa), Bolivian deforestation, Parana River delta marshland (Argentina), volcanoes in Chile, the Great Salt Desert in Iran (Dasht-e Kevir), Dragon Lake (Siberia), the Everglades, Ganges River delta, Greenland coast, West Fjords (Iceland), Karman vortices, Kilimanjaro (East Africa), the world's largest glacier (Lambert Glacier), and more.

FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, 1939-1945
presents 1,600 color photos -- rural and small-town life, migrant labor, the Great Depression, railroads, military training, aircraft manufacturing, and mobilizing for World War II. A special feature, "Collection Connections," provides ideas for learning about women in the war effort, New Deal work programs, farm workers, relief programs, and military training.