Robert W. Tebbs (1875–1945) was an American photographer professionally active in the early to mid-twentieth century who specialized in architectural photography.

One client, architect Cass Gilbert, presented several of Tebbs's photographs that were from the Tebbs-Hymans partnership at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.

These included a significant project in South Carolina for architect Henry C. Hibbs, to photographically document his designs for the Scarritt College for Christian Workers.

[2]: 10, 11 In 1926, architectural historian Richard Koch of New Orleans commissioned Tebbs to conduct a photographic history of the plantations of Louisiana.

Tebbs traveled with his wife and with Koch throughout the state, photographing 97 plantation homes with approximately 400 images.

Particularly illustrative of this style were Tebbs's photographs of the Hickory Hill Plantation in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.

In his photographic essays he often strived to show the contrast between the grandeur of the plantation home versus the squalor of the slave quarters.

[4] Tebbs's project for Koch did not come to fruition due to economic hardships resulting from the 1929 Great Depression.

A set of fourteen of Tebbs's plantation photographs was published in Pencil Points, which was a journal of the American Institute of Architects.

[2]: 1–2 Tebbs's obituary published by the New York Times reported that his personal collection of architectural photographs was among the largest in the United States.

[6] In 1956, his widow Jeanne Tebbs sold his collection of architectural photographs to the Louisiana State Museum, where it continues to reside as of early 2022.