The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Early hand-colored photograph of a gift-laden Santa Claus emerging from a fireplace, c. 1860s. Taken by photographer George Stacy and orig...

Portrait of two men posing in the interior of the Merchants' Exchange building along Wall Street in New York City, New York, c. 1860. Ta...

  Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow posing on the porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. 1856. Taken by the Langenheim Brot...

    Two portraits of men posing in the interior of the Paul & Curtis photography store along Broadway in New York City, New York, c. 186...

Photo looking down Pennsylvania Avenue taken from the US Capitol by photographer William England, c. 1859. Originally published by the Londo...

    Engraving of photographer Jeremiah Gurney from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper published on September 24, 1859. The image is p...

    Animated time-lapse daguerreotype view of the grave of Henry Clay, Jr. in Mexico taken by an unidentified photographer during the Mexica...

Animated time-lapse daguerreotype portrait of General John Wool with his staff and Mexican civilians in a street in Saltillo, Mexico, taken...

Animated time-lapse daguerreotype view of American soldiers of the Virginia Regiment and Webster's Battalion in a street in Saltillo, Me...

  Animated time-lapse daguerreotype view of people and a horse in a street in Durango, Mexico, taken by an unidentified American photographe...