Historical Indulgences

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. 1860’s, [composite carte de visite portrait of E.A. Scholfield confronting himself], E.A. Scholfield

via Connecticut History Online, Mystic Seaport, Scholfield Collection

ca. 1885, [carte de visite of an elaborate photomontage composed of at least five different images, including a cavalry swordsman on wooden horse and a severed living head], Victor Coue

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery Cataloge #35

ca. 1900, [trick tintype portrait of Cornelius C. Kenney holding his own decapitated head], Cornelius C. Kenney

via Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute

ca. 1900, [trick portrait of Cornelius C. Kenney playing chess with his double], Kenney Bros.

via Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute

ca. 1860-90’s, [trick carte de visite portrait of a gentleman handing his double some papers], J. Cremer & Co.

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1899, [Countess Greffulhe embracing her own double], Otto Wegener

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographic Collection

ca. 1865, [trick photograph], John L. Gihon

via Breandán Mackie’s Photostream