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 ...

  Early daguerreotype photo of a street on a market day in Baltimore, Maryland, c. 1840-1844. A number of market day vendors are visible on ...

"Public square, north side." Photo of a crowd probably watching a parade go by on a street in Carthage, Missouri, c. 1870s. Tracki...

Portrait of a group of mostly teenagers posing with a bakery wagon and what might be carts in a street of the Five Points neighborhood of Ma...

  View of a crowd in along Main Street in front of the Spotswood Hotel said to be there to greet Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, pres...

  View of businesses along a street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, c. 1870s. Probably taken by photographer W. H. S. Gross. Originally publishe...

View of a large crowd on 4th Street possibly watching firemen battle a building fire in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1868. Note the stream of wat...

  View of a street in Sioux City, Iowa, c. 1860s/1870s. Source: Library of Congress.

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

View of people posing along Main Street in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1867. By James E. Morse. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by...

Portrait of a group of African American and white men posing along a street titled “Roustabouts on the Levee” in St. Louis, Missouri, c. ...

Bird's-eye stereoview of Galveston, Texas, c. 1880′s. By P. H. Rose. Source: New York Public Library.

Carte de visite view of people posing in front of stores on Main Street in Boonville, Missouri, c. 1866. 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 Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1800′s. By the photography firm Manchester Brothers. Source: Boston Pu...

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

Animated stereoview of people posing in front of second-hand shops in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1900. By Carleton H. Graves. Source.

View of the intersection of Main and El Dorado Streets in Stockton, California, 1866. By Lawrence and Houseworth. Source.

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

View of a street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1865. The crowd of people down the street are said to be African Americans civilians in line ...