As a scholar of 19th-century American photography, I’ve looked at countless old photographs: the carefully labeled portraits ...

Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today, Goodridge was one of the most important African American photographers of the 19th century, who, along with James P. Ball of Cincinnati and Augustus ...

But by the time photography became popular in America in the mid-19th century and photographers and researchers armed with cameras began appearing in Amish communities, most Amish objected to ...

Collectors relish so-called “hidden mother photographs” as historical oddities. These 19th-century images contain very young children held still by half-obscured adults who crouch behind ...

WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents Monument Historique, an exhibition of late 19th century photographs by Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement (1840-1905) and other French photographers, compiled within thirteen ...

How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to ...

The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

It’s arguably the best-known photo by H.H. Bennett, the 19th century photographer and historian who helped put Wisconsin Dells on the map. After losing three fingers on his right hand in the ...