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

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of eight women displaying their hair]

via the International Center of Photography

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. 1870, [carte de visite of the “Circassian Beauty”, identified on verso as Selina Sunubia, in costume], Charles Eisenmann

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in an unidentified or mostly fictionalized Eastern Woodlands Native American outfit, smoking a long pipe]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860’s, [trick carte de visite portrait of a figure with a gentleman’s head superimposed onto a woman’s body], E.A. Scholfield

via Connecticut History Online, Mystic Seaport, Scholfield Collection

ca. 1860-90, [cabinet card, portrait of a frame maker with his tools], A. L. Walline

via Be-Hold Fine Photographs

ca. 1885, [cabinet card, portrait of six well-dressed young people, all gazing at a small object, possibly a small coin or gold piece, held up by the woman at center], Hower

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34

ca. 1880-90’s, [composite tintype of a “family bath scene”, with two gentlemens’ heads superimposed unto painted bodies]

via Ebay

ca. 1870’s, [double exposure, tintype portrait of a woman accompanied by a spirit]

via Luminous Lint, from the Andrew Daneman Collection of American Tintypes

ca. 1880, [cabinet card portrait of Ann Howard, the “Tattooed Lady”], G.F. Sterling

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

ca. 1870-80’s, [cabinet card of an unusual high wheeled tricycle by Victor Tricycle Makers], Overman Wheel Co.

via Cowan’s Auctions

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