Historical Indulgences

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a woman and a gentleman, holding their guitar and a violin respectively]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of Helia Harrison embracing a bust of George Washington], Gabriel Harrison

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive, “Daguerrotypomania”

ca. 1860-80’s, [hand tinted tintype portrait of a listless Freemason]

via Ebay

ca. 1885, [cabinet card, portrait of a gentleman with a leg brace and crutches], J. M. Hosking

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing, Cabinet Cards

ca. 1889, [cabinet card, portrait of woman advertising a photographer for the Trade Carnival in Greenville, Texas; cabinet card portraits are attached to her dress, while carte de visites make up her headpiece], Fayette W. Knight

via Southern Methodist University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs Collection

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a child with his train set]

via Ebay

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a gentleman of slight stature in military dress], John A. Winberg

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

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of two men smoking cigars]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1860-80’s, [occupational tintype portrait of a pair of plumbers with a variety of tools at their feet]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-90’s, [cabinet card portrait of sharpshooter Adam Bogardus displaying a chest full of medals]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1888, [cabinet card, portrait of sideshow performer “Barney Baldwin—Broken Neck Wonder—The only living man in the history of the world with a broken neck”]

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

ca. 1870-90’s, [tintype portraits of a gentleman; in one he is mending his jacket with a needle and thread, the other, smoking a cigar.]

via Capitol Gallery, 19th Century Hard Images

ca. 1861, [gilded, hand colored tintype portrait of two boys “playing war”, dressed in uniforms and standing in front of a amateurish, painted backdrop]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a bearded gentleman with an uneasy grin]

via Ebay

ca. 1882, [ambrotype portrait, housed in a kiri-wood case, of a Japanese gentleman, identified on verso as “Kobayashi Shozaemon, 25 years old” wearing a yukata, coat, hat and geta]

via Charles Schwartz Photography