Historical Indulgences

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a laborer]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of two gentlemen sitting in front of a U.S. states and territories map]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1860’s-90’s, [tintype portrait of a young boy, likely the photographer’s son, playing in the studio among head clamps, paint, and photographic supplies]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of actress Kate Vance, wearing jewelry, lace gloves and a slight smile]

via Harvard University, Houghton Library, Harvard Theatre Collection

ca. 1880’s, [carte de visite political cartoon regarding Jim Crow laws with some sort of advertising for Swarthout Ackerman & Co. Clothiers], I.U. Doust

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-90’s, [elaborately staged platinotype portrait, showing a knife-and-gun fight, possibly for a stage production]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with his springer spaniel]

via Charles Schwartz Photography

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a woman in unusual costume, possibly for a Wild West show, with a bow and arrow]

via Ebay

ca. 1890’s, [cabinet card, portrait of a child, likely a circus performer, standing on two ponies], Frank Wendt

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

ca. 1875, [hand colored tintype portrait of two dandy baseball players]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1860-1890, [tintype portrait of a gentleman earnestly holding hands with two  listless individuals]

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of a bearded gentleman,  holding a leather mallet in one hand an chisel in other, seated on an early daguerreotype camera]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-80’s, [carte de visite portrait of a Mexican miner with pick, canteen and miner’s headlamp], Rodriguez Perez

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1858, [ambrotype portrait of a tough looking sailor with a cigar in his mouth and a knife in his belt]

ca. 1890, [cabinet card, portrait of the photographer’s wife, Nellie, which displays one the various backgrounds that Weston had available for use in his photo studio located in Bangor, Maine],  Frank C. Weston

via Charles Schwartz Photography