Historical Indulgences

ca. 1870-80’s, [cabinet card of an unusual high wheeled tricycle by Victor Tricycle Makers], Overman Wheel Co.

via Cowan’s Auctions

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

via Capitol Gallery, 19th Century Hard Images

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. 1880-1900’s, [tintype portrait of a woman on a prop studio horse]

via Jeffery Kraus Antique Photographics, Tintype Collection

ca. 1880-90’s, [cabinet card portrait of sharpshooter Seth Clover wearing medals]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1875, [hand colored tintype portrait of two dandy baseball players]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1880-1900, [cabinet card, portrait of two women with an unusual tricycle]

via Stereographica, Antique Photographica

ca. 1897, [tintype portrait of four proud, Milwaukee Rowing Club rowing champions, wrapped in a sheet]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of performers on roller skates, each wearing fancy stage costume, the woman with a crucifix and award medal]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34

ca. 1860-90’s, [hand tinted tintype portrait of two fencing partners in costume]

via Capitol Gallery, 19th Century Hard Images

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of two men posed to box with a liquor bottle between them]

via Ebay

ca. 1870’s, [carte de visite portrait of a young girl, identified as Treacy Melrose, with her baby highwheel bicycle], Baker & Potter

via Ebay

ca. 1870-90’s, [tintype portrait of a mustachioed gentleman with his high wheel bicycle]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics

ca. 1860-80’s, [carte de visite portrait of Paul Boyton, the “Fearless Frogman”], A. Lesage

via Stereographica, Antique Photographica

Paul Boyton was a showman and water adventurer most known for his open water swimming exploits in a modified rubber suit and his trained sea lion shows. He also created and toured an aquatic circus around the United States in the late 19th century, then opened two amusement parks, one in Chicago and one on Coney Island. “Paul Boyton’s Water Chutes” opened in 1894 and “Sea Lion Park” in 1895, respectively. By the turn of the century, “Sea Lion Park” became “Coney Island Amusement Park” and was then sold, redesigned and renamed “Luna Park”. “Paul Boyton’s Water Chutes” was closed in 1908 facing the fierce amusement park competition that exploded after World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

ca. 1870, “The Stage Beauty”, [carte de vsite portrait of a stage actress in ornate costume]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34