The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Cabinet card copy of a portrait photograph of American mountain man Jim Bridger, c. 1860s. The original photo has been lost to time and it...

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

  Carte-de-visite self-portrait of photographer Alexander Gardner dressed as trapper or mountain man and posing with a bow and arrow, c. 186...

Portrait of photographer J. C. Moulton (1824-1914) of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1900. Moulton started taking daguerreotypes in 1848 and ...

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

Portrait of Dr. Charles Robinson of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1857. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson pu...

"William Duncan late in life, exhibiting to friends for photographing the canvas, hammock, clock, water bottle, and accordion used b...

Portrait of American stage actor Joseph Jefferson dressed as old Rip Van Winkle by Napoleon Sarony, 1869. From an edition of the book Rip...

Portrait of a Franciscan monk probably taken in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1860. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Mugshot of a unidentified man arrested by police in Sacramento, California, c. 1869. Source: Sacramento Police Department.

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.

Carte de visite portrait of an American diplomat to Liberia only identified as Chester, c. 1870. By photographer D. C. Burnite of Harrisb...

Portrait of an Algerian man posing with a musical instrument, c. 1865-1875. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Carte de visite portrait of a couple playing cards as a man reclines in the background, c. 1860′s/1870's. By photographer Joseph B. B...

Portrait of a group of European and Chinese men posing in front of a bank in Shanghai, China, 1871. By Scottish photographer John Thomso...

Portrait of an unidentified Egyptian man, c. 1865-1875. Source: Rijksmuseum.

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

Self-portrait of American photographer Frederick DeBourg Richards, c. 1850′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Portrait of a Muslim butcher posing with a mule in Beijing, China, 1869. By Scottish photographer John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Images...

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man by James P. Weston, c. 1848. Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum.