The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Animated stereoscopic portrait of Maryland governor and congressman Francis Thomas, c. 1860's. By Mathew Brady. Source.

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified armed gentleman, c. 1845. Source.

American troops aiming their rifles down a road in Bonvillers, France, May 22, 1918. Possibly an authentic combat photograph. Source.

Portrait of an unidentified woman wearing only tassels titled “pretty and peppy,” 1926. Published as a stereoview by the Exhibit Supply C...

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

Portrait of a group of freed slaves on their way to work in a cotton field on Marion Chaplin Place Plantation on St. Helena Island in Sou...

View of a line of Serbian cavalry somewhere in the Balkans during World War 1. Source.

Tintype portrait of an unidentified man posing with a trumpet, c. 1875. Source.

View of a street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1865. The crowd of people down the street are said to be African Americans civilians in line ...

Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man reading a newspaper, c. 1842. By John Plumbe. Source.