Historical Indulgences

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

via Live Auctioneers, Be-Hold

ca. 1847, [Reenactment of the First Public Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether], Southworth and Hawes

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

ca. 1860’s, [Tintype portrait of a barefoot boy holding a revolver]

via Heritage Auctions

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

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

ca. 1850’s, [portrait of a gentleman with photographic equipment]

via the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Daguerreobase

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. 1875, [portrait of two gentlemen staging a robbery]

via the International Center of Photography

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

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographic Collections

ca. 1842, “Eduard Biewend and his Bride, Feodore” F. Oehme

via the National Gallery of Canada, Photographs Collection

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. 1880, [portrait of a woman with binoculars, showing off her luscious locks at the “beach”]

via the International Center of Photography

Happy New Year, everyone!

ca. 1892, [Portrait of W.S. Penley as “Dona Lucia from Brazil” in “Charley’s Aunt”],  Norman and Burnide

via Luminous Lint, Paul Frecker

ca. 1880, [portrait of four ladies with their heads poking through newspaper]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1875, [unidentified gentleman dressed in ladies clothing]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1872, [portrait of a gentleman in Masonic regalia]

via Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection