The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Daguerreotype portrait of Adolphina Juliana Lisman-Meyer said to possibly be taken in Paramaribo, Suriname, c. 1849. Source: Rijksmuseu...

Daguerreotype portrait of Elisa (left) and John McAllister, July 23, 1849. By the Langenheim brothers. Source.

Daguerreotype portrait of President Zachary Taylor taken at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 1849. By Mathew Brady. Source.

Daguerreotype portrait of women of the Ladies Benevolent Sewing Society posing around a table with a quilt on it in Strongsville, Ohio, M...

Daguerreotype portrait of South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, 1849. By Mathew Brady. Source.

Calotype view of workers standing on a cast iron lighthouse assembled temporarily at the foundry where it was created in Philadelphia bef...

Daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the bedside of a dead or dying patient, 1849. He later became a major in the Union Ar...