Each photo tells a story of hardship, elegance, invention, and humanity during one of the most transformative centuries in history.
Photograph Of French Actress Sarah Bernhardt

Sleeping, Homeless Children, 1890s

Emil Racovitza As A Diver At The Banyuls-Sur-Mer Oceanographic Observatory. The Upside-Down Sign The Man Is Holding Says “Underwater Photography.”, 1899

James Mye, Mashpee Wampanoag, 1860

Portrait Of A Young Woman, Ethiopia, 1885-1888

Street Musicians, 1898-99

Sitting Bull And Buffalo Bill, 1895

Robert Howlett, Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before The Launching Chains Of The Great Eastern, 1875

Fading Away, “Farewell To The Dying”, Considered The First Photograph To Deal With The Theme Of Passing, 1858

Boulevard Du Temple, Paris, 3rd Arrondissement, Daguerreotype. Made In 1838 By Inventor Louis Daguerre, This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Showing A Living Person, Circa 1838

Close No. 193 High Street, Scotland, 1868

Brig Upon The Water, 1856

Charging Thunder, A Sioux Indian From Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1900

Frederick Douglass Portrait, Circa 1860s

Pierrot Laughing, 1855

“Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die”, Model Is Mary Ann Hillier, Circa 1867

Eruption Of The Geyser Old Faithful In Yellowstone Valley, 1870 Or 1871

A Native Hut, Circa 1890

John Mayall, Sergeant Dawson And His Daughter, 1855

Abraham Lincoln, Candidate For U.S. President, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Before Delivering His Cooper Union Address In New York City, 1860

Schneider, 1863

Photo Of Lower Yellowstone Falls, Taken During The Hayden Expedition To Yellowstone, 1871

Ancient Ruins In The Canon De Chelle, 1873

Bandits Roost, 59 And A Half Mulberry Street, 1888

Fox Talbot, The Haystack, 1844

Woman Seen From The Back, Circa 1862

The Maharani Of Nepal And Her Followers, 1885-1894

Boston, As The Eagle And The Wild Goose See It, 1860

Blacksmith Forging A Horshoe, C. 1859-1860

The Market Nassau, Circa 1890

Portrait Of Sir Pratab Singh With His Entourage, India, 1882

Kitchen Of The 8th Hussar Unit, Russia, 1855

Great Chicago Fire, Men Stand Amid The Rubble At Lasalle Street And Washington, 1871

Portrait Of Sir John Herschel, 1867

East And West Shaking Hands At The Laying Of Last Rail Union Pacific Railroad, 1869

Cathedral Rock, 1861

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