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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unidentified Man | Artist unknown English, 19th century | c. 1858 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Seated Woman) | Artist unknown 19th century | 1853/1899 |
| — | false |
| Untitled | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1853 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Woman) | Edward Z. Webster (American, 1821-?) and Israel B. Webster (American, 1826-?) | 1853 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1853 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled | Artist unknown English | c. 1858 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Four Family Portraits) | Artist unknown probably American, 19th century | 1853/70 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Still life with a statuette of the Venus de Milo) | John Beasley Greene American, born France, 1832–1856 | 1852-53 |
| — | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Three Children) | Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901) | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Group Portrait of Men) | John Adams Whipple American, 1823-1891 | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Erastus Hopkins, Free Soiler) | Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901) | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Man with a Straw Hat) | Boston School American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Four Women) | R. Emmert Churchill American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Girl) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of man Holding a Girl) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Two Men Playing Chess) | Charles Richard Meade (American, born English, 1826-1858) and Henry William Mathew Meade (American, born English, 1822-1865) | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Daguerreotype Studio and Russel & Co Livery Stable, Mokelumne Hill, California), | Unknown maker; attributed to William L. Zuber American, active California 1850s and 1860s | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Niagara Falls) | Platt D. Babbitt American, 1823-1879 | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Married Couple) | Artist unknown probably American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Fontaine, place de la Concorde, Paris | Édouard Baldus French, born Germany, 1813–1889 | 1855/60, printed 1978 |
| Europe | false |
| Julia Margaret Cameron | Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (English, 1852–1911) after George Frederick Watts (English, 1817–1904) | 1852, printed c. 1893 |
| Europe | false |
| Photographs of Views of Rome | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Trajan's Column) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Trees in Rome) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Temple of Minerva) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Roman wall with gate) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (San Stefano en Rotundo) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Ruins of an Aqueduct) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Ruin of a Round Fortress Building) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (bridge over Tiber River) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Temple of Venus and Rome, Triumphal Arch and other ruins in Forum) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Basilica of Maxentius) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Round Building with Clock) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Fountain of Neptune | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Roman Forum, Antonio and Faustina | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Arch of Septimus Severus | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Arch of the Silversmiths | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Statue of the Laocoon) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Statue of Woman Reclining Atop a Sarcophagus) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Trajan's Column, Base) | Robert MacPherson Scottish, 1811–1872 | c. 1857 |
| Europe | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Woman and a Girl) | R. Emmert Churchill American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Brass Band) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Two Men Playing Cards) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Seated Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Seated Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Portrait of Man with Two Oxen) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Untitled (Horse-Drawn Carriage) | Unknown maker American, 19th century | 1852 |
| Americas | false |
| Le Louvre: Pavillion de l'horloge | Édouard Baldus French, born Germany, 1813–1889 | 1855/60, printed 1978 |
| Europe | false |