Historical Indulgences

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

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of a mechanic with a pipe]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1850, “The Fisherman”, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with a pipe and fishing pole], William C. North

via the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Photographic Collections

ca. 1860-90, [tintype portrait of two moustachioed men smoking their pipes and sharing a drink]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young gentleman in a top hat smoking an elaborate pipe], T.A. Brown

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

ca. 1870’s, [tintype of a perturbed looking gentleman with pipe, looking at a carte de visite album]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1850’s, [Daguerreotype portrait of an elderly woman smoking a clay pipe]

via the Daguerreian Society, Matthew R. Isenburg Collection

ca. 1900, [portrait of five medical students and/or teachers with a cadaver in a dissecting room]

via the Wellcome Library, Iconographic Collection

c. 1870’s, [portrait of a gentleman with his pipe]

via KaufmaNelson Vintage Photography