Historical Indulgences

ca. 1870, [tintype portrait of two clowns in costume]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a blind gentlemen with his son]

via Be-Hold Fine Photographs

ca. 1870-79, [tintype portrait of a pantomimist]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection

ca. 1860-1880’s, [tintype portrait of group of gentlemen, one in a sling]

via Goldminer Vintage, Etsy

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of several gentlemen; two with canes, one with a trumpet, and one seductively laying across a fur rug]

via the KaufmaNelson Vintage Photograph Gallery

ca. 1860-90, [tintype portrait of a pharmacist with his large mortar and pestle]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica, Tintype Collection

ca. 1870-1900, [tintype portrait of a gentleman identified on verso as “William Austen Corwith, 1/2 brother” with his high wheeled bike], Frank Howell Corwith

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica, Tintype Collection

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of two gentlemen posing behind a large picture frame]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1865, [tintype portrait of a photographer with his camera]

via the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of an intense looking law-man]

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1870, [tintype portrait of a performer], William Andrew Bigelow

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1860-80’s, [tintype portrait of a gentleman with an eye injury, holding his child]

via Ebay Auctions

ca. 1880-1900, [tintype portrait of a gentleman gesturing into a neck support device]

via the Library of Congress, Miscellaneous Items in High Demand

ca. 1865, [tintype portrait of two young boys with cigars]

via the Musée d’Orsay

ca. 1868-70, [tintype portrait of a demure cowboy wearing a hat, knife, revolver and boots with spurs]

via the Southern Methodist Central University Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection