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American tintype portrait of a white banjo player and a black fiddle player, c. 1860-1880.
Source: Sotheby’s.
Tintype portrait of an unidentified African American woman, c. 1870′s/1880′s.
Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Carte de visite of the flag of the 22nd United States Colored Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War by photographer David Bustill Bowser, c. 1860′s.
Source: Library of Congress.
Carte de visite portrait of a group of African American child chimney sweeps posing with their tools, 1870. By photographer Jerome Nelson Wilson of Savannah, Georgia.
Source: New York Public Library.
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.
Carte de visite portrait of an American diplomat to Liberia only identified as Chester, c. 1870. By photographer D. C. Burnite of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Source: New York Public Library.
Carte de visite portrait of a group of recently freed slaves on Cassina Point Plantation on Edisto Island in South Carolina during the American Civil War, 1862. By Henry P. Moore.
Source: Library of Congress.
A collection of mugshots of criminals arrested in Sacramento, California, taken in the 1860's.
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified African American man, c. 1850′s.
Source: Sotheby’s.
Portrait of a group of employees including bartenders and dancers posing in front of Hovey’s Dance Hall in which they worked in Clifton, Arizona Territory, 1884. The dance hall's manager, Anton Mazzanovich, is posing next to a tree, second from right.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration.
Portrait of a group of African American and white men posing along a street titled “Roustabouts on the Levee” in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1883-1893.
Source: Rijksmuseum.
Ambrotype portrait of an African American Union soldier named Qualls Tibbs who served with the 27th United States Colored Infantry during the American Civil War, c. 1864-1865.
Source: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Tintype portrait of an unidentified African American man, c. 1880-1900.
Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Portrait of a group of possibly recently freed African American slaves posing in front of a building, possibly a slave cabin, on a plantation owned by Dr. William F. Gaines in Hanover County, Virginia, 1862. By George Harper Houghton.
Source: Library of Congress.
Carte de visite portrait of Harriet Tubman by photographer Benjamin F. Powelson of Auburn, New York, c. 1868-1869. Believed to be the earliest known photograph of her.
Source: Library of Congress.
Carte de visite portrait of an African American man identified as Dr. Crumwell, c. 1870. By Moses P. Rice.
Source: New York Public Library.
Portrait of librarians in the War Department Library of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., c. 1880′s. Attributed to Mathew Brady.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration.
