The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Portraits of members of the police department of Hartford, Connecticut, 1868. By Stuart. From the book Historical Sketch of the Police Se...

  Union soldiers posing in front of bungalows which served as their winter quarters in Corinth, Mississippi, 1862. From Miller's Phot...

Stereoview portrait of a cat in a vase, c. 1871. By John P. Soule. Possibly taken in Soule’s studio on Washington Street in Boston, Massa...

View of people gathered on a court day possibly for an auction in the Cheapside section of Lexington, Kentucky, c. 1850′s/1860′s. Sourc...

Daguerreotype portrait of nine unidentified young men, American, c. 1850. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Danville, Illinois, May 1857. By Amon T. Joslin. Image from the book Lincoln in Photographs: An ...

Italian troops of a regiment from Florence resting after a battle on the Italian front during World War 1. From the book Pictorial Histor...

Animated comedic hand-colored stereoview of a girl and a cat titled "wake up; you lazy pussy," 1898. Published by Underwood and...

Stereoview portrait of a cat somewhere in Worcester County, Massachusetts, c. 1800′s. By F. V. Sargent. Source.

Portrait of Union soldiers and civilians posing in front of a sutler store somewhere in Tennessee during the Civil War, c. 1865. Getty cl...