The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Photo probably showing two First Nations peddler women posing with various wares for sale in Montreal, Canada, c. 1860s. Originally publishe...

  Cabinet card copy of a portrait photograph of American mountain man Jim Bridger, c. 1860s. The original photo has been lost to time and it...

  Engraving of a lost Mathew Brady ambrotype of Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane (center) with fellow expedition members after returning to ...

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

Portrait of five members of the Virginia Military Institute Gymnasium Club from the 1885 edition of VMI’s yearbook named The Bomb. Sou...

Carte de visite portrait of Jane Kettle taken by photographer J.W. Gilmor of Colchester, England, July 1864. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Portrait of Dr. Charles Robinson of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1857. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson pu...

Stereoview portrait of an unidentified woman, c. 1860′s/1870′s. Source: Library of Congress.

Stereoview portrait of a sleeping dog by photographer Julius Hall of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, c. 1860-1880. Source: New York Pu...

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

Portrait of American stage actor Joseph Jefferson dressed as old Rip Van Winkle by Napoleon Sarony, 1869. From an edition of the book Rip...

Daguerreotype portrait of 11-year-old Elihu Vedder dressed as a schoolboy, c. 1847. He would go on to be a noted American symbolist paint...

Tintype portrait of a group of young men and women wearing bathing suits taken somewhere in the United States, c. 1880-1900. Source: Ri...

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

Portrait of a Franciscan monk probably taken in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1860. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Mugshot of a unidentified man arrested by police in Sacramento, California, c. 1869. Source: Sacramento Police Department.

Portrait of Colour Sergeant J. Mullins posing with a cased photograph and sword while serving with the Royal Marine Artillery, 1858. From...

Mugshot of a Russian convict serving a life sentence working in a mine in Siberia, c. 1901. From an issue of Black and White Budget.

Carte de visite portrait of an American diplomat to Liberia only identified as Chester, c. 1870. By photographer D. C. Burnite of Harrisb...

Portrait of a group of Afro-Brazilian railroad workers, c. 1855-1860. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.