Historical Indulgences

ca. 1860-90’s, [carte de visite collage of a gentleman’s head on a plate]

via Luminous Lint, from the private collection of Laddy Kite, LL/47899 

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. 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. 1880-1900’s, [cabinet card, portrait of a child with a knife and a chocolate bunny], Wilke

via Capitol Gallery, 19th Century Paper Photography

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

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

ca. 1860’s, [silly, pornographic carte de visite of a couple]

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography, Carte de visite Collection

ca. 1860-80’s, [studio tintype of a mock hanging]

via Ebay

ca. 1870-1900’s, [carte de visite portrait of “Mr. Bells”]

via Ordinary Light

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of two men smoking cigars]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1887, [tintype portrait of two women posed with a well-dressed and seemingly jolly staircase baluster]

via Ebay

ca. 1880-90’s, [tintype portrait of three friends, perhaps playing dead]

via Ebay

ca. 1870-90’s, [whimsical carte de visite portrait of a gentleman curiously peering through a doorway], E. Cazalis

via Stereographica, Antique Photographica

ca. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of a gentleman, his head super imposed on a hand painted building]

via the San Francisco Museum of Art, Photography Collection