Historical Indulgences

ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a man cradling his dog]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1890’s, [cabinet card, unusual portrait of a bespectacled gentleman holding both a cat and a dog], Home Photo Co.

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography, Cabinet Card Collection

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of pampered-looking dog, wearing a collar with a tiny padlock attached to it, seated in fancy studio chair before an elaborately painted backdrop]  

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1870-1900, [cabinet card, portrait of a photographer and his subject], F. Girard

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860-90’s, [tintype portrait of a hunter, proudly displaying his kill, and his dog]

via Cowan’s Auction

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a woman riding side-saddle on her horse]

via Capitol Gallery, 19th Century Hard Images

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

ca. 1860’s, [carte de visite portrait of a gentleman, possible a taxidermist, surrounded by stuffed owls], M.N. Tubbs

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/35982 

ca. 1870-80’s, [tintype portrait of a girl with her cat]

via Ebay

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with his springer spaniel]

via Charles Schwartz Photography

ca. 1885, [cabinet card portrait of Millie Betra,”The Serpant Queen”, of the Ringling Bros.], Brown

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

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a dog], B. F. Stevens

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

ca. 1870, [tintype portrait of a boy sitting with his dog]

via Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection

ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a dog seated posed in a chair], Rufus Anson

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography Collection