Directory of American Resources

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Web sites archiving documentary photography on the United States, Canada, Mexico and countries in South America, past and present.

Resources in This Category

• American Photography: A Century of Images

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/
  Discover a century of photography through an interactive photolab and feature topics.

• Americana Images

  http://www.americanaimages.com/
  Archive of North American imagery taken by UK based photographer, Scott Wishart.

• California Views Photo Collection

  http://www.caviews.com/
  80,000 images from 1855-1999. Views of Monterey, Cannery Row, the sardine fishing industry, John Steinbeck, Edward F. Ricketts, the California Missions, and the San Francisco earthquake aftermath.

• Cuba de Ayer

  http://www.cubapix.com/
  Extensive collection of photos of Havana's cityscape during the pre-communist 1950s. By Joe E. Abraham.

• Fauerbach Brewery

  http://www.fauerbachbrewery.com/
  History of the Fauerbach Brewery and related breweries in Wisconsin including: Hausmann, Bierbauer, Haertel, and Sprecher. Ice boating and ice harvesting photos.

• Paraguay de Antes

  http://www.meucat.com/album.html
  Of Paraguay (1860-1960), based on the book "Asunción de antaño" by Prof. Jorge Rubiani.

• The September 11 Digital Archive

  http://www.911digitalarchive.org/
  Uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them. It aims to contribute to the on-going effort by historians and archivists to record and preserve the record of 9/11.

• William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
  The William P. Gottlieb Collection comprises of over 1600 photographs of celebrated American jazz artists.

 

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