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The Mechanical Eye:
Western Photographic Resources


This section of WestWeb lists online Western photographic resources, as well as links to pages of photographs in each of the WestWeb categories. All the photographs on WestWeb's pages are displayed with their sources noted in their descriptions; none of these images are the property of WestWeb.

This section is currently under construction, so please check back soon when we hope to have it completed!


Online Photographic Sites WestWeb Photographic Categories


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Online Photographic Sites

  • The U.S. National Archives' online Photographs of the American West, 1861-1912.

  • Dever Public Library's Western History Photography Collection is browseable and searchable online, and prints of photos may be ordered.

  • Neal Ulevich's Graves West provides descriptions and photographs of the graves of famous Westerners.

  • Photographer/designer Glen Sheehan/RedSam provides "Vanishing Nevada: 22 photos from a week exploring Nevada and its Great Basin," and "Boom to Bust: Photographs from Bodie, CA and Las Vegas, NV."

  • An exhibition on Bill Belknap: Photographer of the Colorado Plateau, from Northern Arizona University.

  • California Heritage Digital Image Access Project is a digital archive containing photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library.

  • The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's "Crossing the Frontier" photography exhibit site.

  • The Boston University School of Public Health has exhibits on Navajo Uranium Miners and Toxic Tours of Texas in their Department of Environmental Health Gallery.

  • The index to the U.S. National Archives' online photographic exhibits.

  • The Library of Congress' American Memory Project.

  • Canada's Digital Collections (Les Collections numérisées du Canada).

  • Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux online exhibition from The University of California-Irvine.

  • Bengt's Photo Page is not, strictly speaking, an archive, but it is a wonderful resource on photography in general, and has links to many archives and photographic societies around the world.



    • WestWeb Photographic Categories

    ! Children of the Sun     Ancient Peoples of the American West

    ! In Kiva and Hogan     Native Peoples of the American West

    ! The Land of Eldorado     The Spanish Borderlands

    ! North of the West     The Canadian West

    ! Empires of Expansion     The European West

    ! Earth Laid Bare     Western Environment

    ! Land of Plenty     West as Space and Place

    ! Where Seldom is Heard a Discouraging Word     Frontier as Place and Process

    ! Making It Their Own     Women in the West

    ! Where Men Were Men     Gender and Sexuality in the West

    ! Houses of Dawn and Sky     Western Cultural Studies

    ! The Golden Mountain     The Asian West

    ! Tierra Nuestra     The Chicano West

    ! Other Great Migrations     The African-American West

    ! Many Bloodied Plains     Western Military History

    ! Ranch-hands and Rangers     The Cowboy West

    ! CEOs in Cowboy Hats     Western Extraction Industries

    ! Promised Land     Western Religious History

    ! Contested Terrains     Western Political and Legal History

    ! The World Rushed In     Settlement and Expansion into the West

    ! Enterprise of Expansionism     Western Economic History

    ! Measuring the West     Western Surveys and Exploration

    ! You Are Here     Mapping the American West

    ! Crossing the Great Divide     Transportation in the West

    ! The Settled West     Towns and Communities in Western History

    ! The Immigrants' West     European Immigration and Ethnicity in the West

    ! From Trinity to Hanford     The Atomic West

    ! Harvesting the West     Agriculture, Mariculture, and the Fur Trade in the West


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