The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Photo of a ferry boat with a settler family's covered wagon on it crossing the Big Blue River in Kansas, 1859. Taken by photographers Ch...

Photo of a settler family posing with their horse-drawn covered wagon near North Loup, Nebraska, 1886. Source: National Archives and Records...

Photo of a group of Native Americans probably posing as part of an exhibit at the Great Central Fair, a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, Penns...

  Photo of the General Post Office building in Washington, D.C., probably taken in July 1850. The building appears partially draped in dark ...

  Photo of Fort Lafayette taken from Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York City, c. 1860. Taken by photographer Platt Babbitt and originally p...

Portrait of a group of mostly teenagers posing with a bakery wagon and what might be carts in a street of the Five Points neighborhood of Ma...

  Early photo of Culp's Hill taken shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg by the Tyson brothers possibly in August 1863. Source: New Yor...

  Photo of Union Army colonel Edward Cross posing with a group in front of the Tip-Top House near the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampsh...

Portrait of Dickinson College janitor Henry Watts posing with a number of items including a bucket, broom, anatomical poster, globe, furnace...

Photo of a Mormon settler covered wagon train in Echo Canyon, Utah Territory, c. 1870s. A mounted US Army officer is visible in the front of...