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. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a elderly woman holding spectacles with a young girl who appears to be cross-eyed]

via the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Cased Photographs Collection

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. 1859, [daguerreotype portrait of a bespectacled gentleman, handwritten on verso: “Present from dear George”]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1856-1910, [tintype portrait of a young lady wearing spectacles]

via Harvard College Fine Arts Library, Special Collections

ca. 1860, [carte de visite portrait of a woman, possibly blind, wearing dark glasses and a plaid dress], J.P. Blessing & Co.

via the Southern Methodist University, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection

ca. 1870, [carte de visite portrait of a woman, presumably blind, with dark glasses], J. P. Blessing & Bro.

via the Southern Methodist University Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection

ca. 1861, [Tintype portrait of Joseph Smith, with his tenor horn, of Evansville, Wisconsin, member of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry band]

via the Wisconsin Historical Society, Edwin O. Kimberley: Regimental Band, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Photographs Collection