The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Reuben Bailey with his son John Peter Bailey. Rebecca Bailey with her son John Peter Bailey. Two hand-colored tintype postmortem p...

Daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the bedside of a dead or dying patient, 1849. He later became a major in the Union Ar...

Four men posing with the body of Jesse James in his coffin on display which is believed to have been taken in St. Joseph, Missouri , 1882...