Friday, October 11, 2024

Self-Portrait of Photographer O. M. Perrigo Posing With His Horse-Drawn Photography Wagon With Darkroom Attached to the Back in Medfield, Massachusetts (1860s)

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Probable self-portrait of photographer O. M. Perrigo posing with his horse-drawn photography wagon with darkroom attached to the back. The s...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Animated Stereoscopic Time-Lapse Daguerreotype Photo Portrait of Swiss Photographer Jean-Gabriel Eynard With Friends And Family (1852)

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  Animated stereoscopic time-lapse daguerreotype portrait of Jean-Gabriel Eynard (elderly sitting man at center) posing with family and frie...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Photo of a Crowd in Front of the Patent Office Building in Washington DC (1860)

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  View of a crowd on front of and on top of the Old Patent Office Building for an unidentified event in Washington, D.C., on May 1860. The e...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Photo of a Model of an Unrealized Version of the Confederate Monument at Stone Mountain in Georgia (1928)

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  View of a model of the unrealized Confederate monument on Stone Mountain in Georgia, 1928. The scaled back carving on the mountain would b...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Photo Portrait of Photographer J. C. Moulton of Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1900)

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Portrait of photographer J. C. Moulton (1824-1914) of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1900. Moulton started taking daguerreotypes in 1848 and ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Photo of the County Jail in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Which Was Destroyed By a Fire in 1875 (1860s/1870s)

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  View of the Fitchburg County Jail in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1860s/1870s. It was destroyed by a fire during which no prisoners were i...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Photo of Union Soldiers of the Fitchburg Fusiliers in Front of the Rollstone House in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Before Leaving to Fight in the Civil War (1861)

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  Portrait of Union soldiers of the Fitchburg Fusiliers in front of the Rollstone House in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1861. The photo was tak...
Friday, September 15, 2023

View of a Parade of Zouaves and Other Soldiers on Broadway in Baltimore, Maryland, Possibly Taken During the Civil War (1860s)

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       View of Zouaves and other soldiers during a parade along Broadway in Baltimore, Maryland, c. 1860s. Attributed to photographer Willia...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Daguerreotype Portrait of a Group Posing in Front of Niagara Falls Attributed to Photographer Thomas Easterly (1840s/1850s)

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  Daguerreotype portrait of a group posing in front of Niagara Falls attributed to Thomas Easterly, c. 1850. A section from an 1838 poem abo...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Early Hand-Colored Photo of a Gift-Laden Santa Claus Emerging From a Fireplace Taken by Photographer George Stacy (1860s)

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  Early hand-colored photograph of a gift-laden Santa Claus emerging from a fireplace, c. 1860s. Taken by photographer George Stacy and orig...