Historical Indulgences

ca. 1895, [portrait of female medical students performing a dissection]

via A Morning’s Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive, Stanley B. Burns

ca. 1885, [portrait of a kitten nestled in a bonnet]

via the George Eastman House Collection on Flickr

ca. 1848, [gentleman posed with carpentry tools]

via the J. Paul Getty Museum

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of Union soldier armed with knife]

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1860’s, [carte de visite of a doctor with a skull]

via Alex Peck’s Medical Antique Archive

ca. 1895-96, [portrait of spiritualist J. H. Evans with a spirit child], Robert Boursnell

via Photo_History, Flickr

ca. 1851-65, [portrait of a gentleman with a fife]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographic Collections

ca. 1862, [Portrait of a neurologist using “Electro-stimulation”], Adrien Tournachon

via A Morning’s Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive, Stanley B. Burns

ca. 1888, [tintype caricature portrait of a gentleman on a bridge]

via Photo_History’s photostream on Flickr

ca. 1864, “M. W. Ingle on Lookout Mountain Aged 22 4th July 1864”

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1880, [portrait of a woman with her multiple reflections]

via the KaufmaNelson Vintage Photograph Gallery

ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman looking at a daguerreotype]

via the Smithsonian Institute, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

c. 1850, [hand-painted daguerreotype portrait of a fireman]

via I Photo Central

ca. 1880’s, [portrait of three children and a hidden figure]

via the Southern Methodist University Libraries, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of a woman with darkened eyeglasses]

via JonnyPhoto, Flickr