Historical Indulgences

ca. 1868-70, [tintype portrait of a demure cowboy wearing a hat, knife, revolver and boots with spurs]

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

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of a well-armed Union soldier with three Remington revolvers, two Bowie knives, and a Springfield rifle musket]

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

ca. 1890-1910, [cabinet card, portrait of a young boy standing on a fur skin rug holding a toy rifle], Elmer Chickering

via J. Cosmas Vintage Photography, Albumen and Silver Prints Collection

ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of two hunters with a dog, one with a rifle]

via I Photo Central

ca. 1847, [daguerreotype portrait of a well-armed frontiersman with a Sheffield Bowie knife, bar hammer pepperbox, and a .69 caliber smoothbore musket]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of a tough-looking gentleman with his Colt 1849 pocket revolver]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1880’s, “The Hold-Up”, [tintype portrait of two men pointing weapons at a seated gentleman]

via the Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of A. J. Blue, a heavily armed Union cavalry soldier with three Remington revolvers in his belt]

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

ca. 1861-65, [Portrait of three Union soldiers and two others; two hold hands, one points a revolver at another’s head]

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

ca. 1885-1895, [two cabinet cards of a trick shooter with a 1873 Winchester rifle at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show], Perkinson

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1860-80, [tintype portrait of a sullen gentleman cowboy in fringed chaps]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a young boy with a rifle], P. F. Goben’s New Photograph Gallery

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

ca. 1850-70, [daguerreotype portrait of a Southerner with a knife and a pistol]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Confederate Infantryman armed with a revolver and Bowie knife]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1840-65, [Portrait of a gentleman with a hat and a hunting rifle]

via the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Daguerreobase