Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Every Picture Has a Story
This retrospect on photography looks at the history of this art form and compares it to its function today.
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The Kodak Girl Collection
A delightful salute to women in photography. Includes history and archival photographs.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Robert Cornelius
A concise biographical sketch examining the life and contributions of early photographer and Pennsylvania native, Robert Cornelius.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Native American History
These six extensive collections provide first-person historical accounts, audio clips of music and thousands of photographs from Native American cultures. Audio requires Windows Media Player for PCs, and QuickTime for Mac.
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An Exploration of Historic Prejudice: Italian Digital Photo Album
This photo album shows the Italians as they lived in the Kootenays in Victorian days. They are seen here building the CPR, mining and going about their lives.
Purdue University
Woman Artists of the American West: Women in Photography
A site by Peter Palmquist on Women photographers and the American Indian. There are biographies and images from thirteen women who were active during the latter part of the 19th century.
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Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer (Teaching Guide)
This guide provides a sampling of the vast number of photographs taken by Erwin E. Smith (1884?1947). It is designed for use with fourth through seventh grade students and places particular emphasis on social studies and Texas history....
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Digital Imaging in Education
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Illuminating Photography: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone
The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later...
US Navy
Naval History and Heritage Center: Captain Joy Bright Hancock
A site from the Naval Historical Center provides biographical information on Joy Bright Hancock (1898-1986), champion for women in the Armed Services.
A&E Television
History.com: How Photos From the Battle of Antietam Revealed the American Civil War's Horrors
In October 1862, a shocking and unique photo exhibition opened at Mathew B. Brady's Broadway gallery in New York City. A small placard at the door advertised "The Dead of Antietam," and, as The New York Times reported on October 20,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Timothy O'sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Canon De Chelle
View photographs and read about the historical works of Timothy O'Sullivan in this essay.
George Eastman Museum
Photographs of the Great Depression
These images walk a fine line between documentary photography and propaganda. Nonetheless, they tell a story of a dark period in American history.
Library of Congress
Loc: Popular Photographic Print Processes
This link is designed in a historic presentation to explain the various processes and functions of photography.
George Eastman Museum
Eastmanhouse: Inventors in Imaging Technologies
See how George Eastman, Thomas Edison, and Wilhelm Roentgen impacted American film history and had inventions that were interrelated.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: William Henry Fox Talbot
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on William Henry Fox Talbot(1800-1877)and the invention of photography. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Child Labor in America
Historical photographs provide learners with a firsthand look at the issue of child labor during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this lesson, students will use photographs to further understanding of the politics,...
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Museum of the Moving Image: Optical Room
Take a tour through the history of moving images from the earliest times into the mid-1910s. The tour begins with pre-cinema devices and practices, including shadow plays and optical toys, and covers film and photography pioneers and...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's First Look Into the Camera (Daguerreotypes)
A searchable database from the Library of Congress that provides a fascinating look into the history of photography from 1839-1864. There are images from the Matthew Brady Studio and studio portraits by black photographers James P. Ball...
Other
Photogravure: Art of the Photogravure
Comprehensive resource about the intaglio process of photogravure, compiled and maintained by photographer Mark Katzman. Extensively illustrated account of the history of the art form, along with many useful sidebars on key artists...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Magazine Migrant Madonna
An article by Rebecca Maksel that delves into the mystery of the woman in the famous photograph by Dorothea Lange. The history of the photograph is revealed as is the woman's identity.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Holography
A definition and explanation of holography. Explains the process of making holograms and discusses the history and properties of holograms.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Media Arts
Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...