The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Photo of Lucinda Peale, the second wife of artist Titian Ramsay Peale, posing with a fan in the backyard of the Peale's residence alon...

  Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow posing on the porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. 1856. Taken by the Langenheim Brot...

Portrait of an unidentified girl taken by an unidentified American photographer, c. 1850′s/1860′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Portrait of English stage actress Jean Margaret Davenport, c. 1853-1856. By American photographer Frederick De Bourg Richards. Source: ...

Portrait of a Chinese woman comparing one of her bound feet with another Chinese woman who has unbound feet in Xiamen, China, 1869. By Sc...

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

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man attributed to Mathew Brady, c. 1850′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Retouched copy negative portrait of a woman identified as Mrs. Thouron attributed to Mathew Brady, c. 1860′s. Source: National Archives...

Animated stereoscopic portrait of Colonel Percy Wyndham who served with the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the American...

Portrait of two unidentified men taken by the Slee brothers of Poughkeepsie, New York, c. 1800′s. Possibly a double exposure of one man. ...

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified young man by African American photographer Francis Grice, c. 1850′s. Source: Library of Congr...

French stereoview scene titled “Coll.6. - Le Deshabille de la Parisienne,” c. 1800′s. Attributed to JB. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Portrait of Irish actor Dion Boucicault wearing a costume, c. 1860’s. By Mathew Brady. Source: National Archives and Records Administra...

Stereoview portrait of American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (left) posing with two friends, c. 1860′s. By George Stacy. ...

Animated stereoscopic photographic portrait of President Andrew Johnson, c. 1860's. By Mathew Brady. Source: National Archives and ...

Copy negative of a daguerreotype portrait of a woman identified as Mrs. Clagett, c. 1840′s/1850′s. Copy negative taken by Washington, D.C...

Animated stereoscopic photographs of Jesse Grant, c. 1860's. He was the father of Ulysses S. Grant and served as the mayor of the tow...

Portrait of a man identified as Mr. Bernede in Toulouse, France, c. 1860. Attributed to Eugène Trutat. Source: City Archives of Toulous...

Profile portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant with his mustache and chin beard shaven so a cameo portrait could be made of him, 1875. At...

Daguerreotype portrait of a man named Tsow Chaoong posing with a daguerreotype and fan, 1847. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.