The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

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

"Public square, north side." Photo of a crowd probably watching a parade go by on a street in Carthage, Missouri, c. 1870s. Tracki...

  Portrait of a group of baseball players as another group poses behind them as if playing a game in St. Charles, Missouri, c. 1870-1890. Ta...

View of a large crowd on 4th Street possibly watching firemen battle a building fire in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1868. Note the stream of wat...

    Portrait of a group posing in front of the office of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in St. Louis, Missouri, 1867. Taken by photog...

Portrait of a bartender and customer at an outdoor mixed drinks bar in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1880s. Originally published as a stereoview. ...

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

Portrait of a large group of children and adults posing in front of the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Boonville, Missouri, 18...

Mark Twain (man with white hair in center) getting a drink of water from a dispenser at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, M...

Portrait of students and teachers posing in front of Boonville Female College in Boonville, Missouri, c. 1868. Source: Library of Congr...

Portrait of a group of African American and white men posing along a street titled “Roustabouts on the Levee” in St. Louis, Missouri, c. ...

Carte de visite view of people posing in front of stores on Main Street in Boonville, Missouri, c. 1866. Source: Library of Congress.

Animated stereoview of exhibits at the Grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, 1864. By J.A. Scholten. Source.

Portrait of visitors posing in front of exhibits at the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, 1864. Source.

Portrait of members of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, 1888. The young boy at top center was their mascot. By Fitz W. Guerin. Sourc...

Daguerreotype portrait of 15-year-old Samuel Clemens, the future Mark Twain, posing with a printer’s composing stick with his name spelle...

Union Civil War veteran and Kansas Pacific Railway Company employee Charles B. Lamborn (center) posing with two friends along the banks o...

View of townswomen presenting Union Colonel John D. Stevenson of the 7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment and his men with a flag ...

Union soldiers of the 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry at Benton Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri, during the Civil War. Source....

Union soldiers of the 9th Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry and civilians posing in a street in St. Joseph, Missouri, 1862. Sourc...