Not easy to take a photograph in the 1860s. The images in this era (and probably few decades late) were mostly portraits of people in the studios. So these pictures of American life in the 1860s are really rare and worth to see.
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| A Snowy Day in Westchester County, New York |
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| An interior view of Colby's Clothing Store with its staff, Taunton, Massachusetts |
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| Boatman at Emerald Pool, New Bedford, Massachusetts |
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| Boys at a woodpile, somewhere in Wisconsin or Connecticut |
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| Brink & Ransom on Second Street in Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Dedication of an early Civil War monument, Hopkinton, Iowa |
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| Doors Sash & Blinds, Northfield, Minnesota |
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| Downtown after a rainstorm, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Dry Goods Store in Princeton, Illinois |
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| Everett's Drug Store, Henry, Illinois |
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| Man and horse at barn in Springfield, Massachusetts |
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| Men and children stand on a brick sidewalk adjacent to an apothecary, Salem, Massachusetts |
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| Party at Judges' Cave Rock, New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Seven men and an intrepid dog are perched on top of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee |
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| Soldiers and their ladies at play, New York City |
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| Taking a Break on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont |
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| The crew of the steam-powered fire engine 'Francis S. Bartow' pose on the streets of Savannah, Georgia |
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| The hunting and fishing party, Champlain, New York |
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| The W.K. Lewis & Brothers Condensed Milk Manufactory in West Brookfield, Massachusetts |
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| Train wreck in Richmondville, New York |
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| Two women standing by a grave in Kenyon-Rosse Chapel Cemetery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio |
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| Umbrella Rock on Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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| Women in front of their house, Barton, Vermont |
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| Women on an ivy-covered porch, Cannelton, Indiana |
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| Women on the home front, Corning, New York |
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| A child dressed in ruffled shirt, cape and fur hat sits on a horse in the front yard of a home adorned with four stately columns, Latrobe, Pennsylvania |
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| A Civil War era academy, Orford, New Hampshire |
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| A crowd of folks gather around the Glen Mountain House in Watkins Glen, New York |
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| A group poses in front of a house in Saratoga Springs, New York |
