The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Ambrotype portrait of two unidentified women, c. 1860′s/1870′s. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Studio portrait of a veiled Arab woman, c. 1870′s/1880′s. By C. and G. Zangaki. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Stereoview scene of a group looking at a miniature theater stage, c. 1855-1860. Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, c. 1850′s. Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man by Ball and Thomas of Cincinnati, Ohio, c. 1840's/1850's. Source: Library of Cong...

Stereoview scene titled “The Recruit” showing a man leaving home for military service, probably British, c. 1850′s/1860′s. Source: Bost...

Stereoview portrait of an unidentified woman by French photographer Charles Nègre, c. 1860-1865. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by C.M. Bell of Washington, D.C., c. 1870′s/1880′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Stereoview portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a costume, probably French, c. 1860′s/1870′s. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Daguerreotype portrait of stage actor Edwin Booth, c. 1840′s/1850′s. Source: New York Public Library.

Portrait of President James A. Garfield’s children, c. 1880′s. From left to right: Mollie, James, Harry, Irving, and Abe. By Mathew Brady...

Tintype portrait of an unidentified man posing with a trumpet, c. 1875. Source.

Two portraits of Union soldier Theodore M. Slayton taken 45 years apart in 1863 and 1908. He served with Company H of the 13th Vermont...

Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified boy, c. 1850. By R. Lowe. Source.

Daguerreotype portrait of American abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright,c. 1847. By Antoine Claudet. Source.

Comedic stereoview titled “Who’s your hatter,“ c. 1860. Source.

Hand-colored tintype portrait of an unidentified Union soldier and another man in civilian clothing during the Civil War. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified Union soldier with a Hardee hat during the Civil War. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified African American boy during the Civil War. Source.

Hand-colored tintype portrait of an unidentified Union cavalryman during the Civil War. Source.