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...

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...

    Portrait of a group posing in front of the office of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in St. Louis, Missouri, 1867. Taken by photog...

Portrait of a bartender and customer at an outdoor mixed drinks bar in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1880s. Originally published as a stereoview. ...

  Cabinet card copy of a daguerreotype of streaks of lightning over St. Louis, Missouri, taken by photographer Thomas Easterly at 9:00 PM on...

Mark Twain (man with white hair in center) getting a drink of water from a dispenser at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, M...

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

Animated stereoview of exhibits at the Grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, 1864. By J.A. Scholten. Source.

Portrait of visitors posing in front of exhibits at the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, 1864. Source.

Portrait of members of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, 1888. The young boy at top center was their mascot. By Fitz W. Guerin. Sourc...

Union Civil War veteran and Kansas Pacific Railway Company employee Charles B. Lamborn (center) posing with two friends along the banks o...

Union soldiers of the 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry at Benton Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri, during the Civil War. Source....

"Camp Lewis, 1st Regiment, Missouri State Guards, Col. A. R. Easton, St. Louis Fair Grounds. Salted Paper Print, 1860." Militia...

A reenactment of the Battle of Colenso as seen from the Boer side during the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904. Animated stereoview. Sou...