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 vignette portrait of a man slightly profile in high-buttoned coat and bow tie with a illustration and decorative pinstripes surrounded the name and address of the photographer.

Card photograph pf a man sitting in chair with the name of studio printed along bottom and back.

Card photograph of a Man sitting in stuffed armchair with woman standing to his left with the name and town of photo studio printed with flower boarder along bottom and studio name and an inscription...

Card Photograph portrait of a man with mustache in an oval border with the name of photographer drawing of awards the photographer has won and the location of the studio on front and back.

Date Published

1886

Visiting card portrait of a man with a mustache wearing a coat and bow tie with inscription on back and printed ad for studio.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Man high-buttoned coat and bow tie

Man sitting in chair

Man sitting in stuffed armchair with woman standing to his left

Man with mustache

W. H. Wiley with a mustache wearing a coat and bow tie

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