Historical Indulgences

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of two moustachioed men with a dog]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-90’s, [carte de visite portrait of Eli Bowen,”The Legless Acrobat”, with his wife and child], A. Newman

via Jeffrey Kraus, Antique Photographics

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a fiddler]

via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

ca. 1870, [carte de visite portrait of a tattooed lady looking into a mirror]

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

ca. 1900, [cabinet card, split portrait of mustachioed Cornelius and Clinton Kenney, brothers, with shaved heads], New York Photo Co.

via Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute

ca. 1860-90’s, [two carte de visite portraits of a gentleman; front and back view]

via Luminious Lint, Private Collection

ca. 1854, [ambrotype portrait of a yawning man]

via George Eastman House, Donald Weber Collection on Flickr

ca. 1860-1900’s, [tintype portrait of two shy young girls, clutching their dolls and hiding their faces]

via Ebay

ca. 1870-90’s, [tintype group portrait in a studio with photographic equipment in the foreground]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a gentleman with a furrowed brow and straw hat with a floral design]

via Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a hunter with his dog and gun]

via Luminous Lint, Courtesy of Lee Gallery, LL/13962

ca. 1840-60, [daguerreotype portrait of actress, Eliza Logan, earnestly praying in a white dress]

via Harvard University, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library

ca. 1870-90’s, [carte de visite portrait of a woman, possible a contortionist, in an elevated box]

via Ebay

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite spirit portrait of “Herbert Wilson and his intended”], Mains James Riley, Von Hasseln

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

ca. 1860-90’s, [tintype portrait of a bearded carpenter or shipwright, smoking a pipe, and holding a large square, compass, and the head of a large adze. A saw also leans against his leg]

via Be-hold, Fine Photographs