The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Portrait of inmate members of the prison choir in the chapel at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, c. 1870s. The man standing at the lecte...

  Portrait of three buglers of the Utica Citizens Corps posing in front of a tent in Camp Greenman near Saratoga Springs, New York, 1869. Ta...

  Portrait of musicians of the Utica Citizens Corps band posing in front of tents at Camp Greenman near Saratoga Springs, New York, 1869. Ta...

Portrait of musicians of Green’s Band of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, posing with their instruments, 1860. From left to right: cornetist C. ...

View of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession consiting of Union soldiers, musicians, and others wearing civilian clothing on Pennsylvania...

Stereoview of a scene titled “paying the election bet” showing a crowd surrounding a man dressed as Uncle Sam riding on a cart in a stree...

Portrait of Union sailor minstrels posing on the deck of the USS Wabash during the Civil War, c. 1860's. From Miller's Photograph...

Portrait of a group of musicians and others posing in front of a house in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. By Henry W. Osgood. Animated stereov...

Portrait of the members of Bryants Minstrels, an American blackface minstrel troupe, c. 1865. Source.

Hand-colored tintype portrait of a group of unidentified Union musicians during the Civil War. Source.

The band of the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment posing in the interior of Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island near Savannah, Ge...

Union soldiers of the 48th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment standing at attention in the interior of Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island ...

A military band playing for a group of civilians at Curragh Camp in County Kildare, Ireland, 1861. Attributed to Edward Dyne Fenton. So...

View of a dress parade for militiamen of the Kentucky State Guard on the grounds of the South-Western Agricultural Association in Louisvi...

The band of the Grenadier Guards, a British Army infantry regiment at Curragh Camp in County Kildare, Ireland, 1861. Attributed to Edward...

Union soldiers of the 22nd Regiment New York State Militia drilling in square formation near Harpers Ferry, on Maryland Heights, Ma...

A crowd posing with musicians of the Santa Clara College Band in a street in San Jose, California, c. 1865. By Heering’s Stereoscopic Vie...

Union musicians from the band of an unidentified unit posing in Camp Griffin in Langley, Virginia, c. 1861. By George Harper Houghton. ...

Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of a group of Tyrolean musicians, c. 1851. They performed for Queen Victoria at least twice. By Richa...

Animated stereoscopic hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of three musicians, c. 1852. Source.