ca. 1870’s, [tintype portrait of a man cradling his dog]
via Cowan’s Auctions
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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.
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]
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. 1860-80’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]
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. 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
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