The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Portrait of people posing in the H. Moschke Ltd. store in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), South Africa, c. 1900-1910. Published by the Detro...

“Lady exhibitors at the Crystal Palace Cat Show.” Photograph taken by Russell and Sons at the Crystal Palace in London, England, c. 1901....

Mugshot of a Russian convict serving a life sentence working in a mine in Siberia, c. 1901. From an issue of Black and White Budget.

A group playing a game of faro in the Orient Saloon in Bisbee, Arizona, c. 1900. By photographer C. S. Fly. The men are identified as: ...

Portrait of members of a bicycle club posing with their bicycles somewhere in South Africa, c. 1890-1910. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Mark Twain (man with white hair in center) getting a drink of water from a dispenser at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, M...

Stereoview titled “Ceremony of blessing the apple, procession from the Cathedral of the Assumption, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia”, c. 1901. ...

An ancient Native American mummy discovered in Utah before and after being "restored" with caustic potash in the early 1900...

Scene of a group having fun on a beach probably somewhere in France, c. 1900′s/1910′s. By Raoul Berthelé. Source: City Archives of Toul...

Animated stereoscopic photographs of two Americans boxing in an outdoor ring near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, c. 1900-1905. By Charles C. Pier...

Portrait of French soldiers posing with three German POWs at a hospital in Corbie, France, June 1915. By Raoul Berthelé. Source.

Animated stereoview of a man hoeing cotton in a field near Dallas, Texas, c. 1905. Published by Keystone View Company. Source.

Portrait of British soldiers of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Fusiliers posing with a Maxim machine gun, c. 1901. From Black and Whi...

“Spanish Civil Guards examining the corpse of a famous brigand,” c. 1902. By Canovas. From Black and White Illustrated Budget.

Stereoview of Russian soldiers marching through a street during the Russo-Japanese War in Mukden (now Shenyang), China, 1905. Published b...

"French and German troops jeering at each other on the frontier at Lorraine," 1902. From Black and White Budget.

Soldiers’ homestead advertisement by Union veteran and attorney Henry N. Copp who briefly served with Stroud’s Independent Company, Penns...

Civilians eating in a restaurant which had been hit by a Japanese shell in Port Arthur during its besiegement by Japanese forces during t...

  Animated stereoscopic portrait of a group of Japanese officers in Beijing, China, during the Boxer Rebellion, c. 1902. Source.

Two portraits of Union soldier Torrey W. Sibley taken 44 years apart in 1862 and 1906. He served with Company A of the 13th Vermont Vo...