LIFE Photo Archive

Life magazine photo archive is online and hosted by Google. You can search or browse millions of historic photographs, many that were never published. You can download high resolution photos for non- commercial use. This sounds like it was a huge project and well worth it. Check it out HERE

The Boston Globe's Year in Photographs collection

I found this excellent collection of photographs depicting this past year, 2008, at the Boston Globe.
Some very interesting and creative photographs showing photojournalism at its finest.
Check it out HERE