The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Early view of houses along Bohicket Creek in Rockville, South Carolina, c. 1860. By photography firm Osborn and Durbec and originally publ...

      Inverted calotype negative of buildings including the Bath Hotel along a street in Bath, England, 1842.Taken by photographer William H...

  Portrait of two women posing in a horse-drawn carriage on the grounds of Oakland Hall in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, c. 1860s. Probab...

  View of a house with a gatehouse in front of it probably taken in Washington, D.C., c. 1863. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale. Originally...

  "A 60 lb. Columbia River Salmon." Possibly taken by a member of the British North American Boundary Commission in 1861. Source: ...

  View of a unidentified shuttered building in a forested area probably somewhere in the United States, c. 1870-1890. The building was possi...

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...

  Portrait of two women posing on a rock along Rock Creek in Washington, D.C., 1857. Attributed to photographer Titian Ramsay Peale. Source:...

  Portrait of a large group of men, probably civilian kitchen workers, posing in a room which might have been a dining hall, c. 1865. The ph...

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.

Stereoview portrait of a group posing on a bridge or pier in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 1860. By photography firm Osborn and Durbec....

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

Portrait of an unidentified soldier by Welsh photographer Calvert Richard Jones, c. 1845-1850. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  Tintype portrait of a group of armed hunters posing with their catch of game birds and a dog, c. 1880-1900. Source: Library of Congre...

Tintype view of a street probably in Masontown, Pennsylvania, c. 1880′s. The house visible on the left is under construction. Source: R...

Christmas still life stereoview of a decorated cross titled "Christmas Eve", c. 1860's. By Benjamin Kilburn West. Source:...

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.