The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Daguerreotype of a group posing in front of a building containing J. H. Phillips' Photograph Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, 1865. A dis...

  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...

    Two portraits of men posing in the interior of the Paul & Curtis photography store along Broadway in New York City, New York, c. 186...

Portrait of people posing in the H. Moschke Ltd. store in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), South Africa, c. 1900-1910. Published by the Detro...

Portrait of a man and boy posing at a counter in the interior of a store in Hong Kong, China, c. 1868. By Scottish photographer John Thom...

Animated stereoview of an African American man at the reins of a horse-drawn cart carrying cotton in Gainesville, Florida, c. 1800'...

Portrait of a group of African American men posing in front of a store possibly in Kentucky, c. 1800′s. Source: University of Kentucky.

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

Animated stereoview of a candyman and his cart surrounded by potential customers on Hester Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, ...

Stereoview portrait of a group of people posing in front of a house and store built by George Law in 1836 near Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania,...

People posing in the interior of W. L Kidd's store in Laramie, Wyoming. Animated stereoview. Source.

A group of people posing in front of a grocery store along the Ohio and Erie Canal in Akron, Ohio, c. 1860′s. Source.

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

A group of men posing in front of a sutler's tent during the Siege of Petersburg, November 1864. Animated stereoscopic photographs. ...

Daguerreotype view of a group of men posing in front of the F.A. Candee, Dry Goods & Groceries store in Connecticut, c. 1851. Sourc...

American daguerreotype portrait of a chemist posing with drug making equipment in an apothecary shop, c. 1852. Source.

American daguerreotype of two shopkeepers posing behind a counter in a dry goods store, location unkown, c. 1850. Source.

The interior of  D. Appleton & Company's stereoscopic shop on Broadway, New York City, c. 1859. Animated stereoview. Source.

A group of people waiting outside a of bookstore for news about the Baltimore Riot which was probably being received by telegraph, Cum...

Customers and employees posing in the interior of the D. Appleton and Company stereoscopic shop on Broadway in New York City, c. 18...