The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

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

View of a busy Market Street in San Francisco, California, c. 1890′s. By Isaiah West Taber. Source: Library of Congress.

Stereoview of a group posing in a street in Newton, New Jersey, c. 1880. By Townley's Newton Photo Gallery.  Source: New York Publi...

Stereoview of a group in front of the Barnard, Sumner and Company store on Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 1879. By Bl...

View of people, buildings, and a hydrant shooting water into the air in Providence, Rhode Island, July 4, 1873. By the photography firm M...

Carte de visite view of a busy Broadway in New York City, New York, c. 1865. The Bank of the Republic building visible on the corner is d...

Stereoview of Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, Texas, c. 1865. Source.

  A group posing in front of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1850′s. By Frederick De Bourg Richards. Sou...

View of people and wagons on Mill Street in Grass Valley, California, 1866. By Lawrence and Houseworth. Source.

View of traffic on Turnpike Bridge in Lawrence, Kansas, 1867. The darkroom used to develop this photograph is possibly visible on the bac...

View of a busy Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas, c. 1867. By Alexander Gardner. Source.

View of Meeting Street in front of the Charleston Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, 1863. A rare street scene taken while the city was...

View of a busy Meeting Street in front of the Charleston Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860. By Osborn and Durbec. Source.

Daguerreotype view of the intersection of State and Main Streets in Rochester, New York, c. 1852. By Edward Tompkins Whitney.

View of the headquarters of the U.S. Sanitary Commission and surrounding businesses on Broadway during the Civil War in New York City. At...

Spectators viewing the aftermath of a fire in the offices of the Daily Morning Call newspaper at the southeast corner of Clay and Montgo...

View of a street in London with St Paul's Cathedral in the background. By Underwood & Underwood. Animated stereoview. Source.

A street scene in Havana, Cuba, 1860. By George Barnard. Animated stereoview. Source.

View of carriage and pedestrian traffic on Broadway after a rain shower, New York City, c. 1860. By E. & H. T. Anthony & Company....

View of carriage and pedestrian traffic on London Bridge over the Thames River, London, c. 1896. Published by Strohmeyer and Wyman. Anima...