Daguerreotype view of the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847. Attributed to photographer Thomas Easterly. This is said to be one of the earliest surviving photos taken in New Orleans and the only photo of this iteration of the hotel before it was destroyed by a fire on January 18, 1851.
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 the left hand side of the street. Taken by photographer Henry Fitz, Jr.
View of Parsons West Jersey Hotel in Camden, New Jersey, c. 1850. The building was constructed 1849-1850, was eventually renamed the Hotel Ridgway during the early 1900s and seems to have finally been demolished during the 1950s. Taken by the Langenheim brothers and originally published as a salted paper print.
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, presumably shortly after his release from Federal custody in the city in May 1867. This information comes from a note on the back of the card. I could not find any other corroboration that the photo shows a crowd waiting for Davis. Taken by photographer D. H. Anderson and originally published as a stereoview.
View of businesses along a street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, c. 1870s. Probably taken by photographer W. H. S. Gross. Originally published as a stereoview.
Portrait of Major Edward Parker Rice of the Union Army posing with his horse possibly on a street in St. Louis, Missouri, shortly after the end of the American Civil War, June 1865. Originally published as a stereoview.
View of Wall Street with the old United States Custom House visible in the distance at far left in New York City, New York, c. 1870s. Today, the renovated US Custom House building is known as 55 Wall Street. Originally published as a stereoview.
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 water in the street gutter in the foreground which probably is coming from the firemen's efforts. Originally published as a stereoview.
Portrait of a group posing in front of the office of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in St. Louis, Missouri, 1867. Taken by photographer Alexander Gardner and originally published as a stereoview.
View of the War Department building in Washington, D.C., c. 1860s. Originally published as a stereoview by D. Appleton & Company.
View of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., taken at 4:30 PM on October 14, 1856. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
View of an unidentified street with houses and a what looks like a park in the background in Washington, D.C., c. 1855-1860. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
Portrait of a man posing in front of H. Burr's house in Washington, D.C., April 1857. An unidentified church is also visible to the left of it in the distance. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
Daguerreotype view of a street in an unidentified town, c. 1840s/1850s. There is a sailing ship on a body of water visible at the end of the street, the masts of a few more ships to its right, and a building under construction in the distance at far right. The contour of the hills in the distance might one way the location of this daguerreotype is discovered because the street probably looks much different if this town is still around today. The Library of Congress only states that the daguerreotype was purchased at "Ranch Auction" in Switzerland in 1961.
Update: A viewer of my video on this daguerreotype on Youtube claims to have found the location where the photo was taken. The viewer claims that it was taken in Jamaica and has contacted the Library of Congress about the discovery.
Animated time-lapse daguerreotype view of people and a horse in a street in Durango, Mexico, taken by an unidentified American photographer during the Mexican-American War, c. 1847. The Church of Santa Ana and a hilly area known Cerro de Mercado are visible in the distance.
Source: Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
