Historical Indulgences

ca. 1900, [cabinet card, portrait of Cornelius C. Kenney outdoors with a bear pelt, fancy hat, and a rifle]

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

ca. 1870-90’s, [cabinet cart, portrait of sharpshooter Bo Durtha, with her a single shot tip-up rifle and a mirror for over-the-shoulder trick shooting]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-90’s, [cabinet card, staged hold-up of a couple perpetrated by another woman], H. N. Kent

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing, Cabinet Cards

ca. 1861-65, [ambrotype portrait of a Confederate soldier in an infantry uniform with musket and Bowie knife]

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in civilian attire, possessively holding a M1816 conversion musket with Bowie knife protruding from his belt]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-90’s, [cabinet card, portrait of a heavily armed western gent], Kramer

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing, Cabinet Cards

ca. 1870-90’s, [cabinet card portrait of sharpshooter Adam Bogardus displaying a chest full of medals]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1890, [cabinet card, portrait of two hunters], W.O. Journeay

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs, Cabinet Card Collection

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a man with a shotgun and a dog at his feet], Sanders & Stinson

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

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a small child with a shot gun and a dead rabbit], George W. Valleau

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

ca. 1860-90’s, [trompe l’oeil-esque tintype portrait of a bearded gentleman taking aim at his target]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1856, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman with a shotgun and his dog]

via Charles Schwartz Photography

ca. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of four children; two with guns, one with a staff, and one in a white dress]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1861-65, [hand-colored ambrotype portrait of a Confederate soldier in uniform with a cavalry sword and revolver]

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of a man with a rifle seated on a tree stump]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection