The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  "Elmira, N.Y., from Haight's Hotel." Early photo of buildings in Elmira, New York, c. 1856. Taken by photographer Frederick ...

  Photo of an architectural model of the new US Capitol dome and the building's expanded wings designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, c. 1856...

  View of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., taken at 4:30 PM on October 14, 1856. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale. Source: Nation...

Engraving of a lost Mathew Brady ambrotype of Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, 1856. Published in the August 30, 1856 issue of Frank Leslie...

  Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow posing on the porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. 1856. Taken by the Langenheim Brot...

Hand-colored animated stereoscopic daguerreotype portrait of Lady Mary Haughton Feilden of Feniscowles, England, 1856. By Antoine Clau...

Hand-colored view of Terrapin Tower and Horseshoe Falls taken from Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, 1856. By the Langenheim brothe...

View of the George Washington equestrian statue on the year of its dedication in Union Square in New York City, New York, 1856. By the La...

Daguerreotype of an unidentified man posing behind the grave of Robert Barnard in San Francisco, California, 1856. By J. M. Ford.

View of a town square on a market day in Nashville, Tennessee, 1856. By Dodge and Wenderoth. Source.

Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of John Shiels in Kingston, Ontario, 1856. By Henry K. Sheldon. Source.

"The Ghost in the Stereoscope." Animated hand-colored double exposure stereoscopic staged scene of a ghost haunting two people,...

Animated stereoscopic daguerreotype self-portrait of Antoine Claudet (right) posing with his son, Francis, and his focimeter (lensmeter) ...

Two men posing on Table Rock in front of Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 1856. By the Langenheim brothers. Animated...

View taken during the dedication ceremony for the "Naatje of the Dam" war monument (visible in the foreground) in Dam Square in...

Ambrotype portrait of a man posing with a steam engine built by the Sharps, Davis and Bonsall Company, c. 1856. Source.

View of three men posing at the edge of the American Falls at Niagara Falls, New York, 1856. By the Langenheim brothers. Animated stereos...

A man posing on an early steam locomotive named Old Catawissa, 1856. Possibly taken in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, which was the location of...

View of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C., 1856. By the Langenheim brothers. Animated stereoscopic photographs. ...

View of a group of unidentified people sitting on Mount Willard with Mount Webster in the background in the White Mountains, New Hampsh...