The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Portrait of writer Henry Tuckerman posing in his office in a building along  West 10th Street in  New York City, New York, c. 1861. Taken ...

  Portrait of a group posing in front of a Mr. Dinsmore's house along the Hudson River in New York, c. 1860. Originally published as a g...

Portrait of a man identified as Dr. Marsh reading while sitting in a wheelchair taken by British photographer Henry Maull, c. 1865-1880. ...

  Daguerreotype self-portrait of a man believed to be John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1844. Source: Library of Congress.

Portrait of an unidentified girl taken by an unidentified American photographer, c. 1850′s/1860′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Tintype portrait of three men smoking cigars, c. 1880-1900. Rijksmuseum.

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

Portrait of a Chinese woman comparing one of her bound feet with another Chinese woman who has unbound feet in Xiamen, China, 1869. By Sc...

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man by James P. Weston, c. 1848. Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man attributed to Mathew Brady, c. 1850′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Portrait of a girl identified as Miss Bateman, c. 1860′s. Attributed to Mathew Brady. Source: National Archives and Records Administrat...

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, c. 1850′s. Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Copy negative portrait of a woman and child only identified as R. Mead, c. 1860′s. Possibly intended to be made into a hidden mother cart...

Portrait of two unidentified men taken by the Slee brothers of Poughkeepsie, New York, c. 1800′s. Possibly a double exposure of one man. ...

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified young man by African American photographer Francis Grice, c. 1850′s. Source: Library of Congr...

Hand-colored animated stereoview portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a costume by German photographer Moser Senior, c. 1870's. ...

Portrait of Irish actor Dion Boucicault wearing a costume, c. 1860’s. By Mathew Brady. Source: National Archives and Records Administra...

Stereoview portrait of American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (left) posing with two friends, c. 1860′s. By George Stacy. ...

Copy negative of a daguerreotype portrait of a woman identified as Mrs. Clagett, c. 1840′s/1850′s. Copy negative taken by Washington, D.C...

Profile portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant with his mustache and chin beard shaven so a cameo portrait could be made of him, 1875. At...