Early Photography Archive

Name: Early Photography Archive
Creator: Analog Photo Today
License: Open-access data is CC0; public-domain images are served via IIIF links without redistribution.

The Early Photography Archive presents public-domain photographs from the Art Institute of Chicago photography and media collection, with artist, process and dating context, drawn from the CC0 API and refreshed monthly. Every record links the museum page and adds technique family, origin region and era labels from our pipeline.

Records: 4,070
Last changed: 09/02/2026
Update schedule: 27 5 2 * * UTC
Coverage: 03/03/2026–09/02/2026
Method: Methodology

Photograph	Artist	Date	Technique	Origin	On view
Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Woman)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Two Standing Women and One Seated Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
James Russell Lowell	Henry Herschel Hay Cameron English, 1852–1911	c. 1885, printed c. 1893	other	Europe	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Man)	Wm. Cottrill, M'G'R; Acme Art Gallery American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Woman)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Girl)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1880	photography	Americas	false
Portrait of Edith Wonsen	Artist unknown American, 19th century	n.d.	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	other	false
Untitled (Portrait of Seated Man)	Thompson Studio American, 19th century	1880/1899	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	other	false
Circus in Town, cor West Water and Grand Avenue, No. 932 from the series "Milwaukee and Vicinity"	Henry Hamilton Bennett American, born Canada, 1843-1908	1880/89	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
Unloading Coal, No. 934 from the series "Milwaukee and Vicinity"	Henry Hamilton Bennett American, born Canada, 1843-1908	1880/89	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
Up East Water St. from the Kirby House, No. 901 from the series "Milwaukee and Vicinity"	Henry Hamilton Bennett American, born Canada, 1843-1908	1880/89	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
Down East Water St. from the Kirby House, No.840 from the series "Milwaukee and Vicinity"	Henry Hamilton Bennett American, born Canada, 1843-1908	1880/89	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
From Dome of Exposition Building, looking South, No. 911 from the series "Milwaukee and Vicinity"	Henry Hamilton Bennett American, born Canada, 1843-1908	1880/89	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
James Garfield on March 4, 1880	J. F. Jarvis American, 1850-1931	1880	printing_dyeing photography	other	false
Ware, Herts	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Amwell Church	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Mouth of the River Ash	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Keeper's Cottage, Amwell Magna Fishery	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The Shoot, Amwell Magna Fishery	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
A Backwater on the Lea	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Stanstead from the Lea	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The Black Pool, Near Hoddesdon	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The October Hole, Near Hoddesdon	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Hoddesdon, Herts	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The Compleat Angler	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The Old Rye House	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The Conspirator's Room, Old Rye House	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Mouth of the Old River Stort	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Poplars and Pollards on the Lea, Near Broxbourne	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Broxbourne Church	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The Crown Inn, Borxbourne	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
King's Weir, River Lea	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Footbridge Near Chestnut	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
A Rainy Day at Flander's Weir	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Footbridge Near Chingford	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Footbridge Near Tottenham	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
The Ferry Boat Inn, Tottenham	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
On the "Sow," Near Walton's House at Shallowford	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Crow-Island Stream, River Wye	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Haddon Hall, From the Meadows	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Haddon Hall and Homestead, From the River	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Lady Dorothy's Bridge, Haddon Hall	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false
Rowsley Bridge, on the Derwent	Peter Henry Emerson English, born Cuba, 1856–1936	1880s	other	Europe	false