Historical Indulgences

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. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two instrument repairmen and a child]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1855, [ambrotype portrait of a young man playing his guitar]

via Charles Schwartz Photography

ca. 1860-80’s, [carte de visite, portrait of a mutton chopped luthier working on a violin]

via Macrafly, Curated Historic Photography

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

via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

ca. 1870, [tintype portrait of a drummer in uniform]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-80, [carte de visite portrait of two blind musicians with their instruments], G. & J. Hall

via Stereographica, Antique Photographica

ca. 1845, [daguerreotype portrait of a mustachioed musician holding his flute]

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of W. & T. Bosshard, Courtesy of Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing

ca. 1870-1900’s, [cabinet card, portrait of a gentleman with his bass], R. Webber, Delabole & Tintagel

via Jeffrey Kraus, Antique Photographics

ca. 1860-80, [cabinet card, portrait of two costumed performers, possibly of a Wild West-type show], Hennepin Studio

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860-90’s, [tintype portrait of a melancholy or otherwise passionate fiddler]

via Ebay

ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a young woman with her accordion]

via Ebay

ca. 1885, [cabinet card, portrait of a child playing his cello], Cottage Studio

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing, Cabinet Cards

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

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1865-72, [tintype portrait of a couple, the gentleman with an accordion, the lady, a flower]

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