Late-19th-century cabinet card (all images courtesy Ricco/Maresca Gallery unless otherwise noted) It’s a photograph with sentiments you hope will last a lifetime: the wedding portrait, in which a ...

The Larry J. West Collection features an array of early photography, (above: Untitled (pin, woman in hat) by unidentified artist, ca. 1865), presenting a stunning new visual record. L. J. West ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jubilee singers at Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee, pose for promotional photograph, circa 1871. William L. Clements ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, ...

William Shew, c. 1874 carte de visite of Pet and Wella Anderson’s pencil portrait of Anthony van Dyke (all images courtesy Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern ...

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, ...

The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...

HOUMA, La. — A south Louisiana sheriff is adding photographs of five 19th century African American sheriffs — two of whom went on to be state senators — to the portraits displayed in his office’s ...

The sitters who moved in and out of Hugh Mangum’s view between 1897 and 1922 smiled, laughed, and daydreamed; they threw their arms around or leaned upon one another; they wore their best dresses and ...

HOUMA, La. — A south Louisiana sheriff is adding photographs of five Black sheriffs from the 19th century to the display of portraits in his office's waiting room. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim ...