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 Two Seated Girls)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Family Portraits)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Two Men)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Three Girls)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of William Hickling Prescott and his Son)	Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901)	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Seated Woman)	W. L. Germon American, 1823-1877	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man with Ink, Quill, and Paper)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Boy)	Jeremiah Gurney American, 1812-1895	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Woman, Two Boys and a Girl)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1868	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1862	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled	Georgina Cowper, attributed English, mid 19th century	1855/68	other	Europe	false
Untitled	Artist unknown English	1855	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled (Curtain Lecture)	Artist unknown English	1855	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled (Amy at Play)	Artist unknown English	1855	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled (My Mother's Picture)	Artist unknown English	1855	printing_dyeing photography	Europe	false
Untitled (Portrait of Standing Girl)	Abraham Bogardus American, 1822-1908	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Man, Woman, and Child)	Abraham Bogardus American, 1822-1908	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Girl)	Samuel Broadbent American, 1810-1880	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Deceased Boy)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Post Mortem Portrait of a Girl)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Wheat Processing Plant)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Man on a Horse)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Horse)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls and Two Boys)	James P. Weston American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (House with Various People)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1855	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Man)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1854	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Man with Top Hat)	Unknown maker American, 19th century	1854	photography	Americas	false
Untitled (Portrait of a Woman)	L. H. Hale American, 1823-1885	1854	photography	Americas	false