Portrait of a group posing in front of the Georgetown University Astronomical Observatory in Washington, D.C., c. 1855-1860. What looks like a Jesuit priest wearing a straw top hat is posing at left. This is probably the earliest surviving photo of the observatory. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
View of an early wooden pedestrian bridge over the C&O Canal in or near Washington, D.C., c. 1855-1860. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale. A person appears to be sitting under the bridge on the towpath at left.
View of a stretch of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Little Falls on the Potomac River close to the Maryland/Washington, D.C., border line, c. 1855-1860. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
Early view of Washington, D.C., which looks like it was taken from the area in front of Robert E. Lee's Arlington House mansion in Arlington, Virginia, c. 1855-1865. The uncompleted Washington Monument can be seen across the Potomac River on the right. This might be the earliest known photo of the monument. Possibly taken during the early days of the Civil War after Union soldiers occupied the Arlington House property or else during the years leading up to the war. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
Source: National Museum of American History.
Early photo of Arlington House possibly taken on the same day by Peale.
View of an unidentified street with houses and a what looks like a park in the background in Washington, D.C., c. 1855-1860. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
Portrait of a group posing in front of George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion in Fairfax, Virginia, c. 1859-1860. What looks like a blurry family can be seen sitting on the lawn in front of the second pillar and a man can be seen looking on at far right. At least two ship masts and two wooden planks can be seen holding up the deteriorated left side of the porch. Attributed to either John Wood or Montgomery Meigs.
Portrait of a man posing in front of H. Burr's house in Washington, D.C., April 1857. An unidentified church is also visible to the left of it in the distance. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
View of a dilapidated house and other buildings along G Street in Washington, D.C., c. 1860. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale. The sign on the business to the right of the house appears to identify it as a possible sign-making business.
Portrait of two armed hunters posing in front of a waterfall possibly near Peirce Mill along Rock Creek in Washington, D.C., c. 1855-1860. A third man wearing a top hat in the distance at right is also part of the group. Attributed to Titian Ramsay Peale.
Source: National Museum of American History.
A second photo taken around the same time showing the three men again posing in front of the waterfall.
Portrait of two women posing on a rock along Rock Creek in Washington, D.C., 1857. Attributed to photographer Titian Ramsay Peale.
Staged scene of a group of young British soldiers, most probably cadets, having a mock battle on a hillside, c. 1857-1859. An early albumen print.
Daguerreotype view of a street in an unidentified town, c. 1840s/1850s. There is a sailing ship on a body of water visible at the end of the street, the masts of a few more ships to its right, and a building under construction in the distance at far right. The contour of the hills in the distance might one way the location of this daguerreotype is discovered because the street probably looks much different if this town is still around today. The Library of Congress only states that the daguerreotype was purchased at "Ranch Auction" in Switzerland in 1961.
Update: A viewer of my video on this daguerreotype on Youtube claims to have found the location where the photo was taken. The viewer claims that it was taken in Jamaica and has contacted the Library of Congress about the discovery.
Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow posing on the porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. 1856. Taken by the Langenheim Brothers.
Source: New York Public Library.
Photo looking down Pennsylvania Avenue taken from the US Capitol by photographer William England, c. 1859. Originally published by the London Stereoscopic Company.
Engraving of photographer Jeremiah Gurney from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper published on September 24, 1859. The image is probably based on a lost photo portrait of him.
