The Library of Congress is America's largest library, and is home to an enormous collection of visual imagery. There is a wide variety of material available from the subcontinent, including albumen photographs, stereoscope views, magic lantern slides, prints and other material often not collected by other archives.Read more

The George Eastman House is the world's oldest photography museum, founded by the 19th century entrepreneur who gave the world Kodak film and cameras. It contains many extremely early photographs, and a number of Indian photographs, including works by Bourne, Beato,Read more

The New York branch of the Alkazi Collection combines a research center and digital archive with a commercial gallery featuring cutting-edge photographers of Asia. Contemporary photographers exhibited from the subcontinent include Vivan Sundaram,Read more

One of the world's largest museums and New York's most important collections of world art, The Met has a number of photo-albums by Bourne, Gill, Biggs, Tripe, John Murray and a handful of other early photographers in India. There are also works by Henri Cartier Bresson from 1948 and more contemporary works by American photographers in India not found elsewhere.Read more

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is home of the famous Gernscheim Collection of early photography. This at the time enormous collection by one of the first and foremost historians of early photography immediately made the center one of the major early photographic archives in the world. Today it holds over 5 million prints.Read more

Smithsonian Institution is a actually a collection of museums and galleries in Washington D.C. including the Freer Sackler Gallery, one of the largest repositories of Indian art. The photography collection is substantial,Read more

The New York Public Library is one of the world's finest research libraries, open to all scholars who can make it to New York. It has a substantial Indian collection, including photographs by Bourne, Beato, W.H. Baker,Read more

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Brentwood, California has a large collection of early Indian photography, from Samuel Bourne to John Burke, John Sache and William Baker, from W.W. Hooper to Dr. Murray, James Craddock and many more.

Their collection of Felice Beato images from 1857-1858 is exceptional,Read more