Historical Indulgences

ca. 1860’s, [trick carte de visite portrait of a figure with a gentleman’s head superimposed onto a woman’s body], E.A. Scholfield

via Connecticut History Online, Mystic Seaport, Scholfield Collection

ca. 1880-90’s, [composite tintype of a “family bath scene”, with two gentlemens’ heads superimposed unto painted bodies]

via Ebay

ca. 1870-1900’s, [tintype portrait of a “bonesman”, or member of the Skull & Bones Society at Yale University]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics

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. 1860-80’s, [carte de visite, portrait of a mutton chopped luthier working on a violin]

via Macrafly, Curated Historic Photography

ca. 1860-90’s, [tintype portrait of two men, one scratched off the plate]

via Janice Williams

ca. 1870-80’s, [carte de visite portrait of a bare chested, bearded, and tattooed man], Charles Eisenmann

via Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs

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. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of two men with their high wheel bicycles]

via Flickr, Lorne Sheilds’ Photostream

ca. 1903, [gelatin silver print, portrait of a smiling bearded gentleman with a sword, holding his own decapitated head]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

ca. 1885, [carte de visite of an elaborate photomontage composed of at least five different images, including a cavalry swordsman on wooden horse and a severed living head], Victor Coue

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery Cataloge #35

ca. 1875, [studio tintype of a staged group suicide] 

via Luminous Lint, from the Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes

ca. 1890, [double-exposure cabinet card, portrait of Frank B. Clench photographing himself], Clench

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographics, Skylight Gallery Catalog #35

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of two moustachioed men with a dog]

via Ebay

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a hunter with his dog and gun]

via Luminous Lint, Courtesy of Lee Gallery, LL/13962