Historical Indulgences

ca. 1860-1900’s, [tintype portrait of a child, supported by a cloaked figure, holding a plant]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1856, [hand-tinted daguerreotype portrait of twenty-one year old Absalom K. Simonton II]

In May of 1861, Simonton Enrolled as a Captain and Member of the “Iredell Blues” in the 4th North Carolina. Simonton served with the regiment through fierce fighting in 1861 and 1862 and was promoted to Major and transferred to Field & Staff on May 1, 1862. Simonton was killed in action at Seven Pines on May 31, 1862, the date his promotion went into effect.

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a bird in basin with thread spool and patterned cloth]

via the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery

ca. 1850, [post mortem ambrotype portrait of a child]

via the Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Collections

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

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of four California carpenters]

the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1882, [tintype portrait of a woman hiding herself behind her child], Towne’s

via the American Antiquarian Society, Tintype Collection

ca. 1868, [albumen portrait of Ezra Cornell]

via Cornell University Library, Rare & Manuscript Division

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of Joseph Sharp, with pick axe in hand, 1849 gold miner, of Sharp’s Flats]

via the Online Archives of California, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

ca. 1850’s, [Post mortem daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman]

via the Daguerreian Society, Cindy Motzenbecker Collection

ca. 1851-52, [daguerreotype of a river mining operation at Grizzly Flat, El Dorado Co.], G.H. Johnson

via the Online Archives of California, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Zelda Mackay Pictorial Collection

ca. 1861, [Tintype portrait of Joseph Smith, with his tenor horn, of Evansville, Wisconsin, member of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry band]

via the Wisconsin Historical Society, Edwin O. Kimberley: Regimental Band, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Photographs Collection

ca. 1860’s, [portrait of a Union solider]

via Heritage Auctions

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ca. 1852, [daguerreotype post mortem portrait of a child], McClees & Germon

via the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes Collection