Hey all,
If any of you are still interested in co-moderating an architectural history blog, let me know and we’ll chat.
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Hey all,
If any of you are still interested in co-moderating an architectural history blog, let me know and we’ll chat.
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of three boys holding printed media and a cased image]
via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection
ca. 1870-90s, [‘hidden mother’ tintype portrait of an infant in a white dress]
via Ebay
ca. 1870, [post mortem tintype portrait of a young child]
via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection
ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young man in a fraternal order, possibly Freemason, dress], John Lucas Kingsley
ca. 1880-1910s, [tintype portrait of young ladies dressed in costumes as a Japanese maid (possibly related to The Mikado), the Queen of Hearts, Riding Hood, and Bopeep]
via Ebay
ca. 1860-1900’s, [cabinet card collage of a women scolding the held head of another woman], Carl v. Gedde
via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/47892
ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a man cradling his dog]
via Cowan’s Auctions
ca. 1860-1890’s, [carte de visite portrait of a musician hard at work with his beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay guitar]
via Capitol Gallery, Cabinet Card & Carte de Visite Catalogue
ca. 1858, [ambrotype portrait of a smiling young girl with a book]
ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of eight women displaying their hair]
ca. 1861, [ambrotype portrait of Confederate Private Japhet Collins, brandishing a pistol and a knife]
ca. 1876, “Geo. Stewart W. Officers Boy”, [carte de visite portrait of a sailor], Solano Photographic Art Studio
On verso “‘Pensacola’ April 25, 1876”..The Pensacola was launched in 1859, commissioned in September 1861. She joined Farragut’s Gulf blockading squadron and was engaged in the battle for New Orleans. She remained in the lower Mississippi for most of war, returning to New York for refitting in spring 1864. After two years she headed around Cape Horn to join the Pacific Squadron, where she was when this image was taken. She was in service, with periods of upgrading, until 1912, when she was sunk by the Navy in San Francisco Bay.
via Cowan’s Auctions
ca. 1870, [carte de visite of the “Circassian Beauty”, identified on verso as Selina Sunubia, in costume], Charles Eisenmann
via Ebay
ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in an unidentified or mostly fictionalized Eastern Woodlands Native American outfit, smoking a long pipe]
via Cowan’s Auctions
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