From the first moment the CFR (Fernández Rivero Collection) had among its objectives the formation of a collection of historical photography that would serve to understand the reality of the photographic phenomenon (especially in Spain) as a whole. From this point of view, it was clear that family photography should have its space in the collection, ithin its temporal delimitation, which in our case is comprised between the beginnings of photography, in the 1840s until the first decades of the 20th century. Our objective in this article will be to explain what have been the criteria followed for the incorporation of this type of photographs in the collection and also show numerous examples of both individual pieces and sets that respond to this classification that in principle we have called “family photography” .