Early Outdoor Photography: 38 Rare Photos That Capture Life in the Mid-19th Century

We often see studio portrait photographs that were taken from 19th century, but rarely seen from outdoor especially in the early days of photography.

So what life looked like in the 1850s and 1860s? Just Check out these amazing pics to see.

 
Family picnic, circa late 1850s

 

Family posed outside their home, Wolcott NY, circa 1850s

 

Main Street, Wolcott, NY with horses and wagons, circa 1850s

 

Young man proudly showing off his horse and carriage, circa late 1950s

 

A young man stands with what looks like a large bowl under his arm, in front of what might have been his home in Canada, circa 1855

 

View on Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire, 1855

 

Antebellum home, 1857

 

View of small town, circa 1857

 

The old homestead from the New Hampshire, Vermont area, 1858

 

Acouple sitting at the edge of Niagara Falls, circa 1860

 

Baggage wagon with two white horses at hitch, circa 1860

 

Boy on horse, 1860

 

Delano's Hotel building, horse and buggy out front, circa 1860

 

Family seated on bench in front of Niagara Falls, circa 1860

 

Family standing in field, house in distance, circa 1860

 

Father and his daughter on a horse, circa 1860

 

Five men, two women and a grazing horse in front of a two story building with a one story extension to the side, circa 1860

 

Four people seated near Horseshoe Falls, Table Rock, Niagara Falls, circa 1860

 

Group gathered outside the firm of Brey & Miller, which also has 'Post Office' above the doorway, 1860

 

Group of people, horse & buggy, outside barn, circa 1860

 

Man on wagon, circa 1860

 

Neosho Mills building and townscape, circa 1860

 

Stagecoach arrives, circa 1860

 

Unidentified standing man in top hat, with two dogs in outdoor setting, circa 1860

 

View of Cotton Mill building, Rockville, Connecticut, circa 1860

 

View of townscape, taken from high vantage point, circa 1860

 

John E. Cummins of the 50th, 99th, and 185th Ohio Infantry regiments in Union uniform next to a horse, circa 1861-65

 

Fanny Sharpe Wetmore (1840-1928), Manchester, VT, 1863

 

Unidentified soldier in Union officer's uniform at Point Lookout, Tennessee, sitting with cavalry saber in hand and slouch hat resting beside him on a rock, 1863

 

Family taken in a forest setting, 1865

 

Abbot House, Kent, circa 1860

 

Horse and wagon to 'Dyke & Back', circa 1860s

 

Man with his horse, circa 1860

 

Niagara Falls, circa 1860

 

People pose with horse carriage, circa 1860

 

People posed in front of the house, circa 1860s

 

Two ladies out for a drive on a street on the Western prom in Portland, Maine, circa 1960s

 

 
Two smokers, circa 1860