Historical Indulgences

ca. 1890-1900’s, [tintype portrait of a gentleman with his camera bag]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1859, [daguerreotype portrait of a brick mason holding a trowel], Thomas J. Higgins

via Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Peter Palmquist Cased Photographs Collection

ca. 1850-60’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a mustached gentleman in a polka-dot tie and wide-brimmed straw hat]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1870’s, [carte de visite portrait of a dashing bemedaled man with guitar]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery #34

ca. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of two bicycle delivery men in uniform, posed with their high wheelers]

“[The bicycle on the left is an] American Star safety high wheeler, which featured the smaller wheel in front in order to combat the common problem of being thrown over the handlebars following a sudden stop or unexpected bump.”

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with large beard, wearing hat, work shirt, horizontal striped miner shirt]

via the Daguerreian Society, Matthew R. Isenburg Collection

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of an artist gentleman holding a paintbrush, wearing an apron with creative hand tinting]

via the Daguerreian Society, Greg French Collection

ca. 1853, [daguerreotype portrait of two gold miners, one in an anchor patterned shirt, one with a large beard]

via the Oakland Museum of California

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a Confederate soldier wearing a plaid shirt and a holstered pistol. He carries a large bedroll, a percussion rifle and a kepi with the letters “4 SLG” for the 4th Sumter Light Guards]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1888, [cabinet card, portrait of A.C. Weyhing, pitcher for Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series for Old Judge Cigarettes], Goodwin & Company 

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints Collection

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of a blind gentleman holding a cat]

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive

ca. 1860, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman strumming a banjo, with applied hand-coloring and a finely etched false “imperial” goatee and mustache]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of two bearded gentlemen], Félix Feuardent

via the Musée d’Orsay

ca. 1850’s, “Portrait of Young Mr. Hayden, A Native of New Orleans”, J.H. Huron

via I Photo Central

ca. 1850-54, [Portrait of George Lippard]

A religious and philosophical child prodigy from Philadelphia, George Lippard was a prolific author and a steadfast defender of the oppressed. In 1847, he founded the Brotherhood of America, an organization that continues to champion the underprivileged today, and his writings are said to have awakened Abraham Lincoln to the plight of slaves. Lippard, whose best known essays recorded “Legends” of old Philadelphia, was also a close friend of Edgar Allan Poe.

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History