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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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 Jap
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=19
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
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 a
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
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George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
The Photography Collection includes photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. Searchable by photographer.
http://www.geh.org/photographers.html
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Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Includes selections from the Helmer Backstrom collection and the Gernsheim Collection, focusing on older processes. Especially strong representation of Swedish photography.
http://www.modernamuseet.se/v4/templates/template3.asp?id=1474
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European Photographs Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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.
http://www.mfa.org/artemis/results.asp?pk=2552&so=2&sd=0
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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
http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=collection&par1=14&par3=70
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Photography collection of the NGA includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs by European and American photographers. Information page plus tour of collection.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggphoto/ggphoto-main1.html
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Peabody Essex Museum
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 po
http://www.pem.org/collections/photography.php
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Collection
A virtual tour of the photography collection. Although a very large number of prints may be viewed, no search tool is currently available.
http://www.clevelandart.org/Explore/department.asp?level=1&deptgroup=6
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National Archives of Canada: Photography
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
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020115_e.html
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