Historical Indulgences

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. 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’s, [double exposure, tintype portrait of a woman accompanied by a spirit]

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

ca. 1860’s, [composite carte de visite portrait of E.A. Scholfield confronting himself], E.A. Scholfield

via Connecticut History Online, Mystic Seaport, Scholfield Collection

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. 1860-90’s, [carte de visite collage portrait of “half a woman” on a table]

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/47896

ca. 1870-90’s, [composite tintype of three heads superimposed unto painted circus performers]

via Ebay

ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of a gentleman with a spectral apparition]

via the Northern Light Gallery, Andrew Daneman Collection of American Tintypes

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

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographics, Skylight Gallery Catalog #35

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite spirit portrait of “Herbert Wilson and his intended”], Mains James Riley, Von Hasseln

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

ca. 1880-90, [cabinet card, portrait of a young lady superimposed over a sea-shell and beach motif], J. P. Ball & Son

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype comic, “funny-gram”, of a man riding a mule cart]

via Ebay

ca. 1860-80’s, [carte de visite collage of a woman’s head separated from her body]

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/47900