The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Portrait of  a group of children posing with croquet mallets, a rope swing and dolls probably in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, c. 1870s. A man, pr...

Daguerreotype portrait of 11-year-old Elihu Vedder dressed as a schoolboy, c. 1847. He would go on to be a noted American symbolist paint...

Portrait of a smiling beggar boy by Swedish-born British photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander, c. 1860. Source: National Museum of Amer...

Portrait of a young Algerian man posing with a jug, c. 1865-1875. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Stereoview scene titled “Grandfather, I am taller than you are,” probably British, c. 1850′s/1860′s. Source: Boston Public Library.

Hand-colored animated stereoscopic daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified boy, c. 1850's. By Antoine Claudet. Source: National G...

Carte de visite portrait of an African American boy posing with a dog, c. 1860′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Daguerreotype portrait of Elisa (left) and John McAllister, July 23, 1849. By the Langenheim brothers. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified man and young boy playing chess, c. 1850′s. Source.

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

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

Hand-colored animated stereoscopic daguerreotype portrait of a boy posing with a parrot, c. 1856. By Antoine Claudet. Source.