Historical Indulgences

ca. 1870-1900’s, [tintype portrait of two cloaked ladies smiling demurely from behind a palm fan]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of two moustachioed men with a dog]

via Ebay

ca. 1870-1900’s, [studio tintype portrait of a couple in swim wear]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1900, [albumen portrait of Cherry Kearton standing on his brother Richard’s shoulders to take a picture of a bird’s nest]

The brothers were pioneers of wildlife photography, and in 1892, took the first ever photograph of a bird’s nest with eggs. In 1899 they published “With Nature and a Camera”, illustrated with 160 photographs. Richard went on to develop the ‘photographic hide’ after a series of experiments, one of which involved hiding in a stuffed ox in order to obtain better pictures.

via the National Media Museum, Royal Photographic Society

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of two Union soldiers playing cards]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of a dentist and his patient]

via Luminous Lint, LL/6947 

ca. 1860-90’s, [cabinet card of two women sitting at a table examining a starfish and other specimens using magnifiers], J.R. Thomas

via the Wisconsin Historical Society

ca. 1870-90’s, [gem tintype portrait of two ladies embracing, backs to the camera]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860’s, [silly, pornographic carte de visite of a couple]

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography, Carte de visite Collection

ca. 1865-1910, [tintype portrait of a couple seated in front of a paper moon]

via Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Museum

ca. 1900, [portrait of Lilla and Cornelius C. Kenney], Halifax Photographic Company

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

ca. 1880-90’s, [tintype portrait of two gentlemen, one sitting on the lap of the other, smoking cigars]

via Ebay

ca. 1875, [albumen portrait of a smiling couple]

via Luminous Lint, courtesy of Larry Gotheim of Be-Hold

ca. 1880-1900, “Embracing an Opportunity”, [stereograph of a salesman kissing a woman as her husband looks into stereoscope], Keystone View Co.

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-1900’s, [tintype portrait of two “bonesmen”, or members of the Skull & Bones Society at Yale University]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics