Historical Indulgences

ca. 1850’s [post mortem daguerreotype of a woman with a book]

via Live Auctioneers, Be-Hold

ca. 1858, [portrait of mother and dead child]

via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs

ca. 1854, [portrait of a gentleman with scissors and an impressive necktie]

via Luminous Lint, Matthew R. Isenburg Collection

ca. 1857, [daguerreotype portrait of a mother and her dead child, stricken with either chicken pox or measles]

via A Morning’s Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive, Stanley B. Burns

ca. 1860-80, [portrait of an unidentified buffalo soldier with buffalo hide and gun]

via Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Photographs of Afro-American Soldiers Collection

ca. 1850’s-60’s, [portrait of a gentleman with his instrument]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographic Collections

ca. 1860’s, [portrait of a well-armed gentleman with a pepper box pistol, Kentucky rifle and a top hat]

via Live Auctioneers, Be-hold

ca. 1855, [post mortem portrait of a child with flowers], J.H. Whitehurst Galleries

via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs

ca. 1840-50, [portrait of a gentleman with patterned vest]

via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs

ca. 1850-55, “James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas”, Peter Welling

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gillman Collection

ca. 1850’s, [Gentleman in Hat, Vest, and Apron of the Masonic Order]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographic Collections

ca. 1852, [portrait of a gentleman with an open mouth]

via Luminous Lint, courtesy of the Getty Museum

ca. 1900, [lady atop a studio elephant]

via The American Tintype, by Floyd and Marion Rinhart, Robert W. Wagner

I’m considering getting a 19th century map of New England tattooed somewhere on me. Black lines, with a possiblility of some browns? To match my others.