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• 1864 Luxury Tax on Photographs

• Ancestry.com - Canada, Photographic Albums of Settlement, 1892-1917 $

  Original source: Photographic Albums of Canadian Settlement. 47 albums. Department of the Interior Fonds. R190-0-3-E. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Brooklyn Visual Heritage

  19th and 20th century photographs and other visual materials from the collections of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library.

• Geograph

  Aims to collect a photograph from every geographical grid square in the UK & Ireland. Fantastic if you want to find a photo of where your ancestors originated.

• Merton Memories Photographic Archive

  Produced by Merton Library and Heritage Service, the Merton Memories website offers unprecedented access to a unique collection of photographs charting the history of Merton over the past 150 years.

• Old images of Ireland dating from 1952 | Irish Photo Archive

  Irish Photo Archive has a comprehensive political and social photographic archive dating back to the early 1950s, comprising in excess of 2.6 million images, documenting all aspects of Irish contemporary life.

• Old UK Photos

  Thousands of old photos of the United Kingdom of Great Britain - including England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

• PhillyHistory.org

  PhillyHistory.org is a database of tens of thousands of historic photographs of Philadelphia that can be searched by location, address, date, or keyword. PhillyHistory.org is a project of the Philadelphia Department of Records and powered by Sajara software.

• Photos of Churches of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

  Thousands of high resolution photos of places of worship in the Channel Islands, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales.

• Picture the Past ^FREE

  The libraries and museums of Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have in their collections, hundreds of thousands of historic photographs, slides, glass plates, postcards and engravings recalling the history of the local communities over the last hundred years and more. Now the local authorities, with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund, have made it possible to search all these images on the internet, via this unique website.

• Pictures of England

  Searchable database of England, with pictures & history of over 35,000 towns & villages. Guestbook for requesting genealogy help. Historic maps.

• Portrait & Studio Photographers in the UK: 19th & early 20th century

  • Biographies of UK Photographers

  • Databases on this site

  • Dating a Photograph

    Includes a remarkable dating calculator which allows the visitor to answer questions about their postcard print or Carte-de-visite and be supplied with an approximate date range when that form of media was popular in the UK.

  • Links to Other Sites

• Svenskt Porträttarkiv / Swedish Portrait Archive

  Portraits of Swedish men and women. 450,000 photos and biographies of Swedes, growing with 2,000 new every week. In Swedish. Upload your Gedcom-file and see your ancestors photos within a minute.

• View Dumfries and Galloway

  Dumfries and Galloway Libraries online photographic collection has more than 15,000 images in the collection, including postcards, glass negatives, engravings, lantern slides, and photographs.

• Vintage Aerial - Discover Rural America's History

  Explore millions of historic aerial photos and help us to bring our collection to life.