The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Daguerreotype view of the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847. Attributed to photographer Thomas Easterly. This is said to b...

Engraving of a lost daguerreotype portrait of Empress of Haiti Adélina Lévêque, c. 1850s. The daguerreotype was taken by the New York City p...

Engraving of a lost daguerreotype portrait of Emperor of Haiti Faustin Soulouque, c. 1850s. The daguerreotype was taken by the New York City...

Daguerreotype of a group posing in front of a building containing J. H. Phillips' Photograph Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, 1865. A dis...

  Early daguerreotype photo of a street on a market day in Baltimore, Maryland, c. 1840-1844. A number of market day vendors are visible on ...

    Daguerreotype view of a busy Boulevard des Italiens decorated for a state visit by Queen Victoria in Paris, France, August 1855. The mov...

  Cabinet card copy of a daguerreotype of streaks of lightning over St. Louis, Missouri, taken by photographer Thomas Easterly at 9:00 PM on...

  Daguerreotype view of a street in an unidentified town, c. 1840s/1850s. There is a sailing ship on a body of water visible at the end of t...

  Animated stereoscopic time-lapse daguerreotype portrait of Jean-Gabriel Eynard (elderly sitting man at center) posing with family and frie...

  Daguerreotype portrait of a group posing in front of Niagara Falls attributed to Thomas Easterly, c. 1850. A section from an 1838 poem abo...

    Animated time-lapse daguerreotype view of the grave of Henry Clay, Jr. in Mexico taken by an unidentified photographer during the Mexica...

Daguerreotype with at least 18 exposures of the moon taken with a telescope probably by French photographer Antoine-François-Jean Claudet...

Daguerreotype view of a crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City taken by an unidentified Italian photographer in Rome, the Papal Sta...

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...

Daguerreotype view of the launch of the first-rate 131-gun HMS Marlborough in Portsmouth, England, July 31, 1855. By British photographer...

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man smoking a pipe, 1853. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Daguerreotype view of Native American tipis and the John Harrington Stevens House on ground that would later become the Gateway District ...

Daguerreotype view of a house at the corner of Chestnut Street and Strawberry Alley in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1845. By William Yo...

Painting of a lost daguerreotype of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant probably taken at Camp Salubrity in Louisiana, 1845. By artist T. V. Chom...

Daguerreotype portrait of Franklin Pierce believed to be taken the year before he became President of the United States, c. 1852. By Sout...