The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

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

Daguerreotype view of the launch of the first-rate 131-gun HMS Marlborough in Portsmouth, England, July 31, 1855. By British photographer...

Animated stereoview of two men posing with the Taughannock Giant near Taughannock Falls, New York, 1879. By W. L. Hall. The body turned...

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

Carte de visite portrait of a man posing in the excavated ruins of an Ancient Roman building in Pompeii, Italy, c. 1860's. Source: ...

“Lady exhibitors at the Crystal Palace Cat Show.” Photograph taken by Russell and Sons at the Crystal Palace in London, England, c. 1901....

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...

Carte de visite portrait of a group of recently freed slaves on Cassina Point Plantation on Edisto Island in South Carolina during the Am...

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