New Jersey photography historian Gary Saretzky traveled throughout the state and compiled the names of 19th-century photographers from city directories to create a database from which the photos ...

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 ...

After his start capturing the horrors of the Civil War for Mathew Brady's studio, 19th century photographer Timothy O'Sullivan uncovered the beauty of the great expanses of the American west ...

Collectors relish so-called “hidden mother photographs” as historical oddities. These 19th-century images contain very young ...

The innovation of photography amazed people at the end of the 19th century. They took photos of everything. The typical conceit of wealthy 19th-century families in the Gilded Age allowed them the ...

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 ...

Shooting huge large-format negatives in the style of a 19th-century photographer can return astounding pictures with detail and lens effects unavailable on relatively tiny cameras, but it’s ...

A sculpture of a 19th-century photographer by artist David Clemons looks on from his post at Higgens Point about 6 miles east ...