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.
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![ca. 1870, [carte de visite of the “Circassian Beauty”, identified on verso as Selina Sunubia, in costume], Charles Eisenmann
via Ebay](http://24.media.tumblr.com/3cf61af331a337fbaa740bc948049c98/tumblr_mg7y9g2fSP1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
![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](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m926fn3NiB1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
![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](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92555NB6X1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
![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](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8xatcJCyu1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
![ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two instrument repairmen and a child]
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![ca. 1860’s, [staged tintype portrait of two Federal soldiers enjoying a card game and whiskey, both smoking cigars]
via Heritage Auctions](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly455f88Uw1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
![ca. 1880-90’s, [composite tintype of a “family bath scene”, with two gentlemens’ heads superimposed unto painted bodies]
via Ebay](http://25.media.tumblr.com/187b71d29db430af22dd5d63cffd1bab/tumblr_mgpy2nL78t1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
![ca. 1870-1900’s, [tintype portrait of a “bonesman”, or member of the Skull & Bones Society at Yale University]
via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics](http://25.media.tumblr.com/ea7bb87f44e2771675de7dcd791e6e2e/tumblr_mf1gkn8b5y1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)

