The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Photo probably showing two First Nations peddler women posing with various wares for sale in Montreal, Canada, c. 1860s. Originally publishe...

  Hand-colored photo of two cobblers posing with tools in a mockup of a boot store called the J. Brinton Book Maker, c. 1860. Originally pub...

  Photo of a group of fishermen and/or lobstermen posing with family members, boats, and lobster traps on a beach possibly in Woods Hole, Ma...

Photo of workers in what looks like a small-time stereoview card manufacturing operation, probably French, c. 1860s. The two people sitting ...

  Portrait of a group posing in front of the Newport Harbor Light on Goat Island in Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1860s. Taken by photographer J...

  Occupational portrait of three farm workers posing with scythes in a field on a farm said to have been taken somewhere in the United State...

  Portrait of a gardener posing with a scythe taken in a garden somewhere in France, c. 1860. Originally published as a stereoview in a seri...

  Portrait of three grave diggers posing with a recently dug grave in a cemetery, location unknown, c. 1860s. Attributed to Mathew Brady. No...

Portrait of a woman spinning wool somewhere in Algeria, c. 1870-1900. Published by French photography firm Neurdein Brothers. Source: L...

Portrait of a group of Afro-Brazilian railroad workers, c. 1855-1860. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ambrotype portrait of a gardener posing over a wooden tub of water by an unidentified British photographer, c. 1855. Source: J. Paul Ge...

Portrait of an unidentified maid probably taken somewhere in Europe, c. 1850′s/1860′s. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Portrait of a young Algerian man posing with a jug, c. 1865-1875. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Carte de visite portrait of two German peasants, c. 1865-1866. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Portrait of a group of Native American basket makers posing with their families in a camp somewhere along the Saint Lawrence River in New...

Portrait of a nightwatchman posing at an entrance of a building in Peking (Beijing), China, 1869. By Scottish photographer John Thomson. ...

Portrait of a fireman posing with a fire axe attributed to photographer Andries Jager of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, c. 1800′s. Source:...

Hand-colored stereoview portrait of a woman playing a guitar by Italian-Swiss photographer Giorgio Conrad, c. 1850′s/1860′s. Source: Ri...

Stereoview of workers loading barrels onto a train probably somewhere in France, c. 1855-1860. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Portrait of an unidentified prominent man being carried in a sedan chair by three bearers and accompanied by an assistant somewhere in Ch...