Historical Indulgences

ca. 1861, [ambrotype portrait of Confederate Private Japhet Collins, brandishing a pistol and a knife]

via Southern Methodist Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs

ca. 1860’s, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in an unidentified or mostly fictionalized Eastern Woodlands Native American outfit, smoking a long pipe]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1861-65, [ambrotype portrait of a Confederate soldier in an infantry uniform with musket and Bowie knife]

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1849, [daguerreotype portrait of Miranda Adkins Sneed in a fine dress and lace gloves]

Miranda Adkins Sneed, wife of Sebron Graham Sneed and mother of eleven children, arrived in Austin in 1848. Sneed and her husband were prominent in local politics and were strong supporters of secession in 1861. Their home served as a recruiting station for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and later was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers.

via Southern Methodist Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of two gentlemen sitting in front of a U.S. states and territories map]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1880’s, [carte de visite political cartoon regarding Jim Crow laws with some sort of advertising for Swarthout Ackerman & Co. Clothiers], I.U. Doust

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1866, “Beautiful goddess of liberty, Star Spangled Banner, etc”, [carte de visite portrait of a girl, dressed as Columbia, the American Flag, and a gentleman in a Revolutionary War costume], Frederick Coombs

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

ca. 1870, [alleged tintype portrait of Jesse James]

via the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

ca. 1850, “Albert Pritchard Root Asleep by the Flag”, Marcus Aurelius Root

via Christie’s

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of a woman dressed, possibly as Columbia, in a tiara with the Union shield]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of a Union soldier in uniform with a young man whittling]

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of five Native American men posed with a white man in Western attire]

via the International Center of Photography

ca. 1865, [Copy tintype portrait of George Armstrong Custer], Matthew Brady

via Heritage Auctions

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of a miner dressed in plaid]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite, “E pluribus unum branch. Fifty pears on a branch eight inches long, weighing nineteen lbs. Raised in Bruggs’ Orchard, Marysville, Cal”], Amasa Park Johnston

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection