Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

This digital collection features hundreds of Victorian and vintage photographic prints, and dates from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Analog formats including Cartes-de-Visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes. The bulk of the collection comes from studios in Missouri and Kansas, while the remaining images span locations throughout the United States and Europe. The prints from Missouri photography studios were primarily created by Kansas City photographers.

Items in Collection: 460

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Young woman in dress, necklace, hair pulled back, and seated with her hands in her lap.

Portrait of a woman, slightly profiled, open collar with brooch, hands folded on fringed chair arm.

Portrait of woman in dark dress with tall collar, hair pulled up . Inset in Oval embossed card on each side.

Woman seated quarter profile in dress with large stripes and apron, hair pulled back, hands clasped.

Woman seated, leaning on tasseled chair back; wearing dress ruffled at clasp and wrists with high collar; necklace and earrings; hair parted at center and pulled back into braid at crown.

Woman standing in dark dress with large neck ornament and lace gloves, left hand and leaning slightly on fringed chair in photo right; decorative lake painted backdrop.

Portrait of a woman, slight profile, wearing a striped garment and hair pulled back and up.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Cased tintype of a young woman in dress

Portrait of a woman hands folded on fringed chair arm

Woman in dark dress with tall collar

Woman in dress with large stripes and apron

Woman seated, leaning on tassled chair back

Woman standing in dark dress lace gloves

Woman wearing a striped garment

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