The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

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

Portrait of a stage actress identified as Posa Cook attributed to Mathew Brady, c. 1860′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Obscured daguerreotype portrait of an actress only identified as Augusta wearing a costume, c. 1840′s/1850′s. By Mathew Brady. Source: ...

  Carte de visite portrait of Canadian stage actress Margaret Mather, 1883. Source: Library of Congress.

Portrait of British stage actress Ann Gilbert in costume, c. 1860′s. By Mathew Brady. Source.