Historical Indulgences

Architectural Indulgences is up and running.

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:07:27 -0400

Architectural Indulgences is up and running.:

Hey all,

If any of you are still interested in co-moderating an architectural history blog, let me know and we’ll chat.

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of three boys holding...

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:04 -0400

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of three boys holding printed media and a cased image]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1870-90s, [‘hidden mother’ tintype portrait of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:09:01 -0400

ca. 1870-90s, [‘hidden mother’ tintype portrait of an infant in a white dress]

via Ebay

ca. 1870, [post mortem tintype portrait of a young child] via...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:42:03 -0400

ca. 1870, [post mortem tintype portrait of a young child]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young man in a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:30:31 -0400

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young man in a fraternal order, possibly Freemason, dress], John Lucas Kingsley

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

ca. 1880-1910s, [tintype portrait of young ladies dressed in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:28:23 -0400

ca. 1880-1910s, [tintype portrait of young ladies dressed in costumes as a Japanese maid (possibly related to The Mikado), the Queen of Hearts, Riding Hood, and Bopeep]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-1900’s, [cabinet card collage of a women scolding...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:30:14 -0400

ca. 1860-1900’s, [cabinet card collage of a women scolding the held head of another woman], Carl v. Gedde

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/47892

ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a man cradling his...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:36:45 -0400

ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a man cradling his dog]

via Cowan’s Auctions

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Wed, 22 May 2013 18:29:19 -0400

ca. 1860-1890’s, [carte de visite portrait of a musician hard at...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:30:27 -0400

ca. 1860-1890’s, [carte de visite portrait of a musician hard at work with his beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay guitar]

via Capitol Gallery, Cabinet Card & Carte de Visite Catalogue

ca. 1858, [ambrotype portrait of a smiling young girl with a...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:50:49 -0400

ca. 1858, [ambrotype portrait of a smiling young girl with a book]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of eight women displaying their...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:30:14 -0400

ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of eight women displaying their hair]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1861, [ambrotype portrait of Confederate Private Japhet...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:49:02 -0400

ca. 1861, [ambrotype portrait of Confederate Private Japhet Collins, brandishing a pistol and a knife]

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

ca. 1876, “Geo. Stewart W. Officers Boy”, [carte de...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:30:00 -0400

ca. 1876, “Geo. Stewart W. Officers Boy”, [carte de visite portrait of a sailor], Solano Photographic Art Studio

On verso “‘Pensacola’ April 25, 1876”..The Pensacola was launched in 1859, commissioned in September 1861. She joined Farragut’s Gulf blockading squadron and was engaged in the battle for New Orleans. She remained in the lower Mississippi for most of war, returning to New York for refitting in spring 1864. After two years she headed around Cape Horn to join the Pacific Squadron, where she was when this image was taken. She was in service, with periods of upgrading, until 1912, when she was sunk by the Navy in San Francisco Bay.

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870, [carte de visite of the “Circassian...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:30:18 -0400

ca. 1870, [carte de visite of the “Circassian Beauty”, identified on verso as Selina Sunubia, in costume], Charles Eisenmann

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in an...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:30:32 -0400

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in an unidentified or mostly fictionalized Eastern Woodlands Native American outfit, smoking a long pipe]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870, [Hand tinted tintype portrait of James Weldon...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:23 -0400

ca. 1870, [Hand tinted tintype portrait of James Weldon Johnson’s mother and sister: Helen Louise Johnson and Agnes Marion Edwards in fancy dress]

via Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a man in academic...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:00:28 -0400

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a man in academic gown], Charles Lake Cramer

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

ca. 1860’s, [trick carte de visite portrait of a figure with a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:30:26 -0400

ca. 1860’s, [trick carte de visite portrait of a figure with a gentleman’s head superimposed onto a woman’s body], E.A. Scholfield

via Connecticut History Online, Mystic Seaport, Scholfield Collection

ca. 1860-90, [cabinet card, portrait of a frame maker with his...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:30:07 -0400

ca. 1860-90, [cabinet card, portrait of a frame maker with his tools], A. L. Walline

via Be-Hold Fine Photographs