Historical Indulgences

ca. 1890’s, [cabinet card, unusual portrait of a bespectacled gentleman holding both a cat and a dog], Home Photo Co.

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography, Cabinet Card Collection

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

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-1900, [cabinet card, portrait of a photographer and his subject], F. Girard

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1880-1890’s, [cabinet card studio portrait of a gentleman accompanying a girl riding a pony], Witter

via the Wisconsin Historical Society, Grignon, Lawe and Porlier Papers Collection

ca. 1860’s, [carte de visite portrait of a gentleman, possible a taxidermist, surrounded by stuffed owls], M.N. Tubbs

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/35982 

ca. 1870-80’s, [tintype portrait of a girl with her cat]

via Ebay

ca. 1885, [cabinet card portrait of Millie Betra,”The Serpant Queen”, of the Ringling Bros.], Brown

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

ca. 1870, [tintype portrait of a boy sitting with his dog]

via Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype comic, “funny-gram”, of a man riding a mule cart]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a disheveled looking man with his black lab]

via Ebay

ca. 1855-1895, [carte de visite portrait of a dog in a metal collar], Houston’s Excelsior Gallery

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

ca. 1860’s-80’s, [carte de visite occupational portrait of a taxidermist with his animals]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1893, [cyanotype portrait of a smiling Florence Luscomb, holding her cat Needles]

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

ca. 1875, [two tintype portraits, housed together, of fisherman with their catch]

via Charles Schwartz Photography

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a hunter and his dog, both sitting with a taxidermied bear looming menacingly behind], *Related: 1, 2

via Heritage Auctions