Chooeubhaokhaossian the Great's Temple of History

Portrait of a group of deer hunters posing on a hillside in Glenfeshie, Scotland, c. 1858. Taken by Scottish photographer Horatio Ross.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Portrait of a young woman identified as Miss Jeanne taken by Belgian photographer Louis Pierre Theophile Dubois de Nehaut, c. 1854-1856.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Daguerreotype portrait of two men posing with the grave of Solomon Harthorn somewhere in California, c. 1853.

Source: Sotheby’s.

Portrait of two unidentified women in Egypt taken by German photographer Ernest Benecke, 1852.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Portrait of Dr. Charles Robinson of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1857.

Source: California Digital Library.

Daguerreotype portrait of two unidentified women taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1842-1855.

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Postmortem daguerreotype portrait probably showing two parents posing with their deceased child, European, c. 1855.

Source: Sotheby’s.

A collection of mugshots of American criminals taken by Hungarian photographer Samuel G. Szabó in 1857 (Part 8). This is the earliest set of mugshots from the United States I have come across. Original captions are in quotations.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A collection of mugshots of American criminals taken by Hungarian photographer Samuel G. Szabó in 1857 (Part 7). This is the earliest set of mugshots from the United States I have come across. Original captions are in quotations.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

My animation of a 12-photo 360 degree self-portrait session by French photographer Adrien Tournachon taken around 1858 turned into a 10 minute looped film-like creation. Behold, one of the earliest “movies” resurrected from history!

Photo source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Ambrotype portrait of Scottish-American painter William Thompson Russell Smith, c. 1850′s.

Source: Archives of American Art.

Daguerreotype portrait of a group of unidentified young men, possibly students, c. 1840′s/1850′s.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

Portrait of a Franciscan friar probably taken in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1860.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

Ambrotype portrait of Xanthus Smith, son of Scottish-American painted William Thompson Russell Smith, c. 1850s. He later became a noted painter of maritime scenes and served with the US Navy during the American Civil War.

Source: Archives of American Art.

Ambrotype portrait Mary Russell Smith, c. 1855.

Source: Archives of American Art.

A collection of mugshots of female American criminals taken by Hungarian photographer Samuel G. Szabó in 1857. This is the earliest set of mugshots from the United States I have come across. Original captions are in quotations.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Daguerreotype portrait of Irish-born countess, stage actress, and dancer Lola Montez, c. 1851. Taken by Southworth and Hawes of Boston, Massachusetts.

Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.