Historical Indulgences

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a blind gentlemen with his son]

via Be-Hold Fine Photographs

ca. 1860, [post mortem portrait of a gentleman]

via the Boston Public Library on Flickr, Print Department

ca. 1863, [ambrotype portrait of a Civil War induction officer with a lottery box]

via the Library of Congress, Civil War Collection

The National Conscription Act of 1863 created a lottery system where men, between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, could have been drafted into military service during the Civil War. In New York, outrage over compulsory military service caused riots to break out in the summer of 1863. Both the Union and Confederacy had their own respective conscription acts.

ca. 1870-79, [tintype portrait of a pantomimist]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a Confederate soldier wearing a plaid shirt and a holstered pistol. He carries a large bedroll, a percussion rifle and a kepi with the letters “4 SLG” for the 4th Sumter Light Guards]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1860-1880’s, [tintype portrait of group of gentlemen, one in a sling]

via Goldminer Vintage, Etsy

ca. 1850’s, [Daguerreotype portrait of an elderly woman smoking a clay pipe]

via the Daguerreian Society, Matthew R. Isenburg Collection

ca. 1843, [Self-portrait of Robert Cornelius with laboratory instruments], Robert Cornelius

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Image Archive

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of several gentlemen; two with canes, one with a trumpet, and one seductively laying across a fur rug]

via the KaufmaNelson Vintage Photograph Gallery

ca. 1860-90, [tintype portrait of a pharmacist with his large mortar and pestle]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica, Tintype Collection

ca. 1850-60, [daguerreotype portrait of a salesman displaying his eclectic collection of wares]

via the Library of Congress, Daguerreotype Collection

ca. 1875, “The Sutherland sisters with their brother Charles”, [cabinet card portrait of sever long-haired women with a gentleman]

The seven Sutherland sisters included Sarah, Victoria, Isabella, Grace, Naomi, Dora and Mary. Starting in upstate New York where their father owned a farm, the girls became famous for their long hair and singing ability.

via the American Antiquarian Society, Group Photographs Collection

ca. 1870-1900, [tintype portrait of a gentleman identified on verso as “William Austen Corwith, 1/2 brother” with his high wheeled bike], Frank Howell Corwith

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica, Tintype Collection

ca. 1855, [post mortem daguerreotype portrait of a child of a sofa]

via the Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1850’s. [medical daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with a lump on his head]

via Ebay Auctions