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City of Shadows: 19th Century London and England Through A Glass Darkly: http://www.cityofshadows.net/content/category/8/22/31/; Excellent selection of Victorian photos.
The Costume Gallery: Victorian and Edwardian Photos: http://www.costumegallery.com/edward.htm; Photos designed to illustrate costumes of the period.
The Daguerreian Society: http://www.daguerre.org; The Daguerreian Society brings together people from all over the world who are united by a common interest in the history of photography.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html; Copyright-free images.
Memento Mori: Death and Photography in Nineteenth Century America: http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/meinwald/meinwald1.html
Put a Date on That Old Photograph: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~victorianphotographs/; Part of the Roger Vaughan collection site, this section helps you identify old photographs by the photographer and other factors.
Recycled Relatives: http://www.recycledrelatives.com/; A collection of Victorian and Edwardian photographs.
Scribas: http://www.scribas.com/decade/1800s; A site where readers can post photos and recollections--with a growing collection of photos from the 1800s.
Spitalfields Life: http://spitalfieldslife.com; This blog is packed with photos of Victorian London, as well as period images from newspapers and magazines.
Sussex PhotoHistory: http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/index.htm; This website is devoted to photographers active in the English counties of East Sussex and West Sussex during Victorian and Edwardian times. It is designed to be used by people researching their family history who wish to date family photographs and those interested in the history of photography.
The Viewfinder: http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/; A site run by English Heritage that enables you to search for historic photos.
Victorian and Edwardian Photographs (The Roger Vaughan Collection): http://www.rogerco.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk; A huge collection of photographs - the definitive Victorian photography website!
Victorian Post-Mortem Photography: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/01/victorian_postmortem_photography.php; Interesting article on the topic, with a few sample photos.
West Sussex Past Pictures: http://www.westsussexpast.org/pictures/index.html

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