Links to related websites

Library of Congress

Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. The Library of Congress purchased 263 of Fenton’s salted paper and albumen prints from his grand niece Frances M. Fenton in 1944, including his most well-known photograph, "Valley of the Shadow of Death."

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has a good collection of Roger Fenton’s photographs including many of his most famous from the Crimean war.

Roger Fenton, Tate Britain: 21 September 2005–2 January 2006

Tate Britan held one of the largest exhibitions ever devoted to this photographer, organised originally by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

One of the world's finest cultural archives, the Ransom Center houses thirty million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and over 100,000 works of art. Among this collection is one of the two complete books of Fenton's letters from the Crimea.

National Media Museum

Part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK holds one of the two complete books of Fenton’s letters from the Crimea; part of a collection of more than three million items of historical, social and cultural value.

Photographs Exhibited in Britan 1839–1865

A research database containing individual records for over 20,000 photographic exhibits drawn from forty exhibition catalogues published between 1839 – 1865. Most of the images created by Fenton in the Crimea are listed.

Knowledge Media Design Photohistory Page

At De Montfort University, in Knowledge Media Design we are developing a corpus of searchable, high quality, resources for researchers of 19th century photography working from primary materials such as exhibition catalogues and letters.