Historical Indulgences

ca. 1876, “Geo. Stewart W. Officers Boy”, [carte de visite portrait of a sailor], Solano Photographic Art Studio

On verso “‘Pensacola’ April 25, 1876”..The Pensacola was launched in 1859, commissioned in September 1861. She joined Farragut’s Gulf blockading squadron and was engaged in the battle for New Orleans. She remained in the lower Mississippi for most of war, returning to New York for refitting in spring 1864. After two years she headed around Cape Horn to join the Pacific Squadron, where she was when this image was taken. She was in service, with periods of upgrading, until 1912, when she was sunk by the Navy in San Francisco Bay.

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870, [carte de visite of the “Circassian Beauty”, identified on verso as Selina Sunubia, in costume], Charles Eisenmann

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in an unidentified or mostly fictionalized Eastern Woodlands Native American outfit, smoking a long pipe]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870, [Hand tinted tintype portrait of James Weldon Johnson’s mother and sister: Helen Louise Johnson and Agnes Marion Edwards in fancy dress]

via Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a man in academic gown], Charles Lake Cramer

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

ca. 1860’s, [trick carte de visite portrait of a figure with a gentleman’s head superimposed onto a woman’s body], E.A. Scholfield

via Connecticut History Online, Mystic Seaport, Scholfield Collection

ca. 1860-90, [cabinet card, portrait of a frame maker with his tools], A. L. Walline

via Be-Hold Fine Photographs

ca. 1900, [cabinet card, portrait of Cornelius C. Kenney outdoors with a bear pelt, fancy hat, and a rifle]

via Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two instrument repairmen and a child]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860’s, [staged tintype portrait of two Federal soldiers enjoying a card game and whiskey, both smoking cigars]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1885, [cabinet card, portrait of six well-dressed young people, all gazing at a small object, possibly a small coin or gold piece, held up by the woman at center], Hower

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34

ca. 1880-90’s, [composite tintype of a “family bath scene”, with two gentlemens’ heads superimposed unto painted bodies]

via Ebay

ca. 1870’s, [double exposure, tintype portrait of a woman accompanied by a spirit]

via Luminous Lint, from the Andrew Daneman Collection of American Tintypes

ca. 1870-1900’s, [tintype portrait of a “bonesman”, or member of the Skull & Bones Society at Yale University]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics

ca. 1880, [cabinet card portrait of Ann Howard, the “Tattooed Lady”], G.F. Sterling

via Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs