Historical Indulgences

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

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

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. 1858, [ruby-glass ambrotype of the “Charles Rogers” steamboat on the Des Moines River]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

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

via Charles Schwartz Photography

ca. 1860-70’s, [ambrotype portrait of a butcher and his son, preparing to slaughter a sheep]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a dignified gentleman, possibly a sailor, posed in front of a painted mural of a whaling scene]

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [hand tinted ambrotype portrait of gentlemen, possibly a part of the Knights Templar fraternal order, wearing an unusual disc-covered jacket, and holding a sword, mask, and hat]

via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a woman riding side-saddle on her horse]

via Capitol Gallery, 19th Century Hard Images

ca. 1860, [ambrotype portrait of a family at a window]

via Harvard University’s Houghton Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Art, Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography

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

via George Eastman House, Donald Weber Collection on Flickr

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a leonine gentleman]

via Ebay

ca. 1861-65, [ambrotype portrait of a Confederate soldier in an infantry uniform with musket and Bowie knife]

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a laborer]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1858, [ambrotype portrait of a tough looking sailor with a cigar in his mouth and a knife in his belt]

ca. 1850-60’s, [ambrotype portrait of a Freemason with a slight smile, wearing his Masonic regalia]

via Ebay