Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century General History
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920. Library of Congress, American Memory. A collection of over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies and around three hundred color photo lithograph prints. Includes pictures of Tuskegee, African-American Education, etc.
Documenting the American South: Primary Resources for the Study of Southern History, Literature and Culture. University of North Carolina. This site is organized into seven different sub-headings. Going through “The Church in the Southern Black Community” leads to a great deal of material on Tuskegee and Hampton. Includes digitized books on Hampton and Tuskegee. On Hampton, they have An Autobiography by Robert Russa Morton (1921) who was first a student and then a teacher between 1880s and 1915.
Furman University Nineteenth Century Documents Project. Includes post-Civil War digitized sources for American society and culture.
New Perspectives on the West. PBS. The information, resources and links from this site make it one of the most comprehensive places on the web for images, histories, bibliographies, etc. on the West.
American Photography: A Century of Images. PBS. Features an Image Lab, art, photographs, and information on photography as a tool of persuasion, social change, and cultural identity.
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Women’s History, General
National Women’s History Project. Links to sites on all aspects of women’s history.
West Web, Making it on their Own: Women in the West. Includes bibliographies, biographies, primary and secondary texts, resources, and images.
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Photography, General
The American Museum of Photography. Includes online exhibits of early photography and access to galleries of images; gives a sense of the sweep of the history of photography. Has a Research Center with historical information and links to other photography sites.
The Daguerreian Society. Includes online galleries of nineteenth century works. Also includes an extensive bibliography of early texts on photography, from late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Good for background history.
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Women Photographers
UCR California Museum of Photography: Women Photographers. Site for a 1999 exhibit profiling different women photographers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Women Artists of the American West: Women in Photography Archive, by Peter E. Palmquist. Includes a gallery, biography, and bibliography. Essays include “100 Years of California Photography by Women” and “Women Photographers of the American Indian.” Thirteen women profiled here, most are from the turn of the century. Information about a grassroots archive with the goal to identify, collect, preserve, and disseminate information about women photographers.
A Woman’s View: 19th Century San Francisco Women Photographers. Other links show interesting women’s photographs.
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Includes sections on both nineteenth century and early twentieth century women artists.
Utah State Historical Society: The Domestic Life Photograph Collection, 1902. Register for photograph collection of Elfie Huntington.
America 1900 Film Website. Transcript of interviews with Laura Wexler on Francis Benjamin Johnston. Focuses primarily on Hampton Institute photographs
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
Interactive Guide to the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, May-October 1893. This site, by Bruce R. Schulman, is divided into five sections: Background, Exhibits, Art, Architecture, and White City.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath. This site explores the Exposition through a virtual tour, investigates visitor’s reactions to the fair, and analyzes its social, political and cultural legacies.
The Chicago Historical Society. Photo Gallery: The World’s Columbian Exposition. A good site for the Fair with 51 images available of different building and fair highlights.
The Web-Book of the Fair: A Window on the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. This online book describes conditions in 1893 Chicago.
The Paris Exposition of 1900
National Gallery of Art, Resources: Exposition Universelles de 1900. Paris 15 April to 12 November 1900. From the Photographic Archives Collection, links to photographs and sterographs of the Exposition and “International Expositions List.”
America 1900 Website. A transcript of an interview with Laura Wexler, focusing on the Paris Exposition.
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century African-American History, General
African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907. Library of Congress, American Memory. This is an amazing site for primary source material. The bulk of the material here is from 1875–1900. Search by subject, keyword or author. Much by Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells. There are 25 pamphlets on Education alone. There is also Frederick Douglass’ speech at the World’s Columbian Exposition on Haiti. Unfortunately, the pamphlet by Wells and Douglass on why Blacks were not allowed to exhibit at the Fair is not among the papers.
African-American Perspectives: The Progress of a People: A Special Presentation of the Murray Collection. Library of Congress, American Memory. Three segments: “Segregation and Violence;” “Solving the Race Problem;” and “Contributions to the Nation” document the meeting of the 1898 National Afro-American Council in Washington, D.C.
University of Washington, University Libraries, African American History: A research guide to primary and secondary sources from the nineteenth century forward to the twentieth century and the Civil Rights Movement.
BlackNews.com, Black History Resources: A list of African American history museums, organizations and publications.
Hampton and Tuskegee
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts. Guide to the archives of Hampton with a list of papers in possession at the University of Virginia. Retains papers of most of the people that were in charge when Frances Benjamin Johnston took her pictures: Hollis Frissell, president of Hampton between 1882 and 1917, as well as people like Francis Brys, the business correspondent at the time.
University of Illinois Press, The Booker T Washington Papers: Tuskegee Institute, 1902: A Selection of Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photographs by Johnston, including many of students studying academic subjects; also many of the Washington family. Photos are taken from the Frances Benjamin Johnston collection at the Library of Congress.
