Daguerreotype Photo of the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana (1847)

 

Daguerreotype view of the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847. Attributed to photographer Thomas Easterly. This is said to be one of the earliest surviving photos taken in New Orleans and the only photo of this iteration of the hotel before it was destroyed by a fire on January 18, 1851.

Source: Missouri Historical Society.

Early Photo of the US Treasury Building in Washington DC (1856)

 

View of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., taken at 4:30 PM on October 14, 1856. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.

Source: National Museum of American History.

Early Photo of Robert E. Lee's Arlington House Mansion in Arlington, Virginia (1850's/1860s)

 

Early photographic view of the front of Robert E. Lee's Arlington House mansion in Arlington, Virginia, c. 1855-1865. Possibly taken during the early days of the Civil War after Union soldiers occupied the property. This might be the earliest surviving photo of the mansion. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.

Source: National Museum of American History.

Portrait of Two Men Posing in the Interior of the Merchants' Exchange Building Along Wall Street in New York City Taken By George Stacy (1860)

Portrait of two men posing in the interior of the Merchants' Exchange building along Wall Street in New York City, New York, c. 1860. Taken by photographer George Stacy. Today, a renovated version of the building is known as 55 Wall Street.

Source: New York Public Library.