Historical Indulgences

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, [Hand tinted tintype portrait of James Weldon Johnson’s mother and sister: Helen Louise Johnson and Agnes Marion Edwards in fancy dress]

via Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers

ca. 1870-1890’s, [hand colored tintype portrait of three young men drinking a pink tinted liquid and eating what appear to be eggs]

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a dignified gentleman, possibly a sailor, posed in front of a painted mural of a whaling scene]

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [hand tinted ambrotype portrait of gentlemen, possibly a part of the Knights Templar fraternal order, wearing an unusual disc-covered jacket, and holding a sword, mask, and hat]

via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

ca. 1870-1910’s, [tinted tintype portrait of a blushing, mustachioed gentlemen, identified as “Ed Lamb”]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-80’s, [hand tinted tintype portrait of a freckled pastor or minister with a cross]

via Ebay

ca. 1860’s, [hand tinted “hidden mother” tintype portrait of a child]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1845-50’s, [hand-tinted daguerreotype portrait of a blue eyed gentleman with an unbuttoned fly]

via Ebay

ca. 1870-90’s, [tinted tintype with numbered reference grid etched over a portrait of a mustachioed gentleman]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-80’s, [hand tinted, hidden-mother tintype portrait of a baby]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-70s, [tintype portrait of two bearded gentlemen,  David & Thomas Havens, identified on verso]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a woman in unusual costume, possibly for a Wild West show, with a bow and arrow]

via Ebay

ca. 1875, [hand colored tintype portrait of two dandy baseball players]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1860-70’s, [hand tinted tintype portrait of two gentlemen linking arms]

via Ebay