The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

    Engraving of a lost photo of Lieutenant Cornelius Van Camp who was serving with the 2nd US Cavalry Regiment at the time of his death, c....

Engraving of a lost photo of Governor Jonathan Trumbull's tomb in Lebanon, Connecticut, 1859. Trumbull had served as governor of Connect...

  "Log Cabin, Kansas." Photo of a family posing in front of an expanded log cabin house somewhere in Kansas Territory, c. 1859. Ta...

  "Forefathers' Rock, Plymouth, Mass." Photo of a group of men posing with the bottom portion of Plymouth Rock a few years bef...

Photo of a group of French Army Zouave soldiers posing in a camp in Palestro, Italy, during the Second Italian War of Independence, 1859. Th...

Photo of a ferry boat with a settler family's covered wagon on it crossing the Big Blue River in Kansas, 1859. Taken by photographers Ch...

  Early photo of the boulder lodged in Flume Gorge at the base of Mount Liberty near Franconia, New Hampshire, 1859. Taken by Luther White a...

  View of scaffolding built for the construction of Cabin John Bridge (also known as the Union Arch Bridge) in Cabin John, Maryland, c. 1859...

  Portrait of a group posing in front of George Washington's family tomb on the grounds of Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia, May...

   Hand-colored portrait of a group posing in front of Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia, c. 1859-1860. Attributed to William En...

  Portrait of a group posing in front of George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion in Fairfax, Virginia, c. 1859-1860. What looks like a ...

  Staged scene of a group of young British soldiers, most probably cadets, having a mock battle on a hillside, c. 1857-1859. An early albume...

Photo looking down Pennsylvania Avenue taken from the US Capitol by photographer William England, c. 1859. Originally published by the Londo...

    Engraving of photographer Jeremiah Gurney from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper published on September 24, 1859. The image is p...

Ambrotype portrait of Benjamin Johnson Lang and Margaret Burrage on their wedding day, c. 1859. Source: Boston Public Library.

Stereoview of two people posing in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., 1859. By the London Stereoscopic Co...

Animated stereoview of French acrobat Charles Blondin during one of his tightrope walks across the Niagara River between New York and Ont...

Hand-colored stereoview of horse-drawn omnibuses and other horse-drawn vehicles in a street in New York City, New York, c. 1859. Original...

Stereoview portrait of a group of people posing in front of a house and store built by George Law in 1836 near Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania,...

"The Death of Chatterton." Hand-colored animated stereoview based on the painting by Henry Wallis, 1859. The scene depicts the ...