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

Topics

Advertising & Media

Kansas City History

Women’s History & Representation

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Visiting card portrait of a bearded elderly man wearing a coat with printed ad for photograph studio on back.

Visiting card portrait of Brigham Young in suit and bowtie with a printed ad for the photographer on back.

Vignette visiting card portrait of an Elderly man in coat and vest with the name and address printed on the back within a decorative boarder.

Visiting card for John A. Sutter with handlebar mustache seated in a chair with his signature on back.

Date Published

1870

Visiting card portrait of an elderly woman seated with left arm on pillow in dark dress with neck bow and lace collar and cuffs with a printed ad for the photographer on back.

Visiting card bust only vignette of an elderly woman wearing glasses with a sticker obscuring the photo studio's logo on back.

Visiting card portrait of a woman in lace buttoned collar with printed ad for the photographer on back.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Bearded elderly man

Brigham Young in suit and bowtie

Elderly man in coat and vest

Elderly man with Handlebar mustache seated in a chair

Elderly woman seated

Elderly woman with glasses

Woman in lace buttoned collar

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Subjects, People (Collection)