The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  "Elmira, N.Y., from Haight's Hotel." Early photo of buildings in Elmira, New York, c. 1856. Taken by photographer Frederick ...

  Photo of the General Post Office building in Washington, D.C., probably taken in July 1850. The building appears partially draped in dark ...

  View of Parsons West Jersey Hotel in Camden, New Jersey, c. 1850. The building was constructed 1849-1850, was eventually renamed the Hotel...

View of a small wood and stone dam holding back a stream on a hillside possibly along Rock Creek (in the foreground) in Washington, D.C., c....

  View of Peirce Mill (right) and Peirce Barn (building in background) along Rock Creek in Washington, D.C., September 26, 1855. The buildin...

Portrait photo of Union soldiers of the 6th Massachusetts Militia Regiment posing in front of the War of 1812 Battle Monument in Battle Monu...

  Portrait of a group posing in front of George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion in Fairfax, Virginia, c. 1859-1860. What looks like a ...

  Portrait of an unidentified man posing on the rear platform of a train car, c. 1863. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Portrait of an unidentified soldier by Welsh photographer Calvert Richard Jones, c. 1845-1850. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Portrait of English stage actress Jean Margaret Davenport, c. 1853-1856. By American photographer Frederick De Bourg Richards. Source: ...

Portrait of future opera singer Adelina Patti pointing at a print of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, c. 1854. By American photographer F...

View of onlookers and the Virginia Washington Monument taken on the day of its unveiling in Richmond, Virginia, February 22, 1858. Sour...

Self-portrait of American photographer Frederick DeBourg Richards, c. 1850′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Portrait of a group of possibly recently freed African American slaves posing in front of a building, possibly a slave cabin, on a planta...

Portrait of President Millard Fillmore attributed to Baltimore photographer Jesse Harrison Whitehurst, c. 1850′s. Source: Library of Co...

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

A man posing with the tombstone of Aaron Burr in Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey, c. 1850′s. By Frederick De Bourg Richards. ...

Portrait of six Union musicians of the 4th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment posing in a camp somewhere in Virginia, possibly Camp Grif...

Four Union soldiers testing a blanket boat on the Potomac River during the Civil War, c. 1862. Originally captioned: ”Blanket boats on th...