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Portrait of a woman spinning wool somewhere in Algeria, c. 1870-1900. Published by French photography firm Neurdein Brothers.

Source: Library of Congress.

Daguerreotype portrait of a group of Italian shepherd musicians known as Pifferari photographed by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey in Rome, the Papal States, 1842.

Source: Sotheby’s.

Carte de visite portrait of a Hawaiian hula dancer named Kamakaku, c. 1870′s/1880′s.

Source: Library of Congress.

View of miners digging iron ore from a hillside at Elizabeth Furnace in Virginia, 1872.

Source: Library of Congress.

Ambrotype portrait of a gardener posing over a wooden tub of water by an unidentified British photographer, c. 1855.

Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Hand-colored tintype portrait of an unidentified fireman, c. 1875.

Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Hand-colored carte de visite portrait of a woman selling brooms posing on a street in Shanghai, China, c. 1870-1872. By Scottish photographer John Thomson.

Source: Library of Congress.

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified Chilean sailor by San Francisco photographer William Shew, c. 1850.

Source: Sotheby’s.

Daguerreotype portrait of a blacksmith demonstrating forging a horseshoe by Philadelphia photographer Summer A. Smith, c. 1859-1860.

Source: Sotheby’s.

Portrait of a fireman posing with a fire axe by photographer Andries Jager of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, c. 1800′s.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

Hand-colored stereoview portrait of a woman playing a guitar by Italian-Swiss photographer Giorgio Conrad, c. 1850′s/1860′s.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

Stereoview of workers loading barrels onto a train probably somewhere in France, c. 1855-1860.

Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Tintype portrait of an unidentified man posing with a violin titled “yours if you want it,” c. 1800′s.

Source: National Museum of American History.

Daguerreotype portrait of Jacob S. Yost posing with a surveying theodolite in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1854.

Stereoview portrait of butchers posing with meats at Washington Market in New York City, 1883. By B. W. Kilburn.

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified architect posing with two sets of blueprints, British, c. 1855.

Portrait of four bootblacks posing with two of their customers in Manhattan, New York City, New York, c. 1875. Animated stereoview.