Early Photography Archive
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.
| Photograph | Artist | Date | Technique | Origin | On view |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled (Portrait of Two Seated Men Wearing Top Hats) | A. H. Knapp American, active 1850s | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Two Standing Women Holding an American Flag) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Cathedrale de Chartres | Charles Nègre French, 1820–1880 | 1856 or 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Brig on the Water | Gustave Le Gray French, 1820–1884 | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Solar Effect in the Clouds-Ocean | Gustave Le Gray French, 1820–1884 | 1856/57 |
| Europe | false |
| The Haloed Sun | Gustave Le Gray French, 1820–1884 | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Seascape, Normandy | Gustave Le Gray French, 1820–1884 | 1856/57 |
| Europe | false |
| The Steamboat | Gustave Le Gray French, 1820–1884 | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Gustave Doré | Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) French, 1820–1910 | 1856-58 |
| Europe | false |
| Avignon (Flood of 1856) (Avignon [Inondation de 1856]) | Édouard Baldus French, born Germany, 1813–1889 | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Woman) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Four Children) | Rufus Anson American, active 1851-1867 | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Covered Wagon and Horse) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Eliza Bancroft Davis) | Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901) | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Photographs Taken in the Crimea | Roger Fenton English, 1819–1869 | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (View of the Valley of the Tyropean: Jesrusalem) | Artist unknown English | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Edith & Mary) | Artist unknown English | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled | Artist unknown English | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Poor Moms) | Artist unknown English | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Luici) | Artist unknown English | 1856 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man) | Jesse Harrison Whitehurst American, 1819–1875 | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Fitz & Co. Bakers, Lynn, MA) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1856 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Reclined Woman) | John Adams Whipple American, 1823-1891 | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Indian Chief Maungwudaus, Upper Canada) | Donald McDonnell American, 19th century | 1855 |
| — | false |
| Untitled (Clement L. Vallandigham, Congressman from Ohio) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man) | Rufus Anson American, active 1851-1867 | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man) | Rufus Anson American, active 1851-1867 | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Man with a Corn Pipe) | Charles Richard Meade (American, born English, 1826-1858) and Henry William Mathew Meade (American, born English, 1822-1865) | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Man Reading a Newspaper and Wearing a Top Hat) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Seated Woman with Book) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Man and Woman) | James Presley Ball & Thomas American, active 1840s-1870s | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Boy and Girl) | Rufus Anson American, active 1851-1867 | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Three Women) | Albert George Park American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Girl) | Marcus Aurelius Root & S. Root American, 1808-1888 | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Woman and a Boy) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Boy and Girl) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Girl) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Woman and a Boy) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Thomas Preston) | L. H. Hale American, 1823-1885 | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Two Men) | Robert H. Vance American, 1825-1876 | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Freemason) | Boston School American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of William G. Worrell of Welch’s National Circus) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man in Soldier Uniform with a Dog Lying to the Left of him) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Post Mortem Portrait of a Girl) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Commercial Building, Bridgewater, MA) | L. Bradford Howard American, 19th century | 1855 |
| Americas | false |