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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1 - 12 of 12 items

Visiting card portrait of a balding man with mustache with printed logo for the photo studio on back.

Cased tintype of a boy seated next to two girls in polka dot dresses

Boy in vest and bowtie seated next to two girls with hair back in polka dot dresses seated with their hands in their laps.

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

Girl with hair parted in middle in fuller, knee-length dress with pattern and wide collar; seated.

Vignette bust only card photograph of a man in high-buttoned coat; moustache, hair parted on left and combed over.

Visiting card portrait of a man, seated, with hair parted on far right with a printed ad for the photo studio on back.

Man with mustache wearing a coat and bow tie

Visiting card portrait of a man with a mustache wearing a coat and bow tie with purple logo for photo studio on back.

Visiting card portrait of a man with a mustache wearing a coat with vest.

Card photograph of three children: two boys, one girl; boys standing in knee-length trousers and boots; girl seated on fringed-chair in plaid dress with crochet cape. "Burnice, Sue, and Knapp...

Visiting card portrait of a woman in a high lace collar with the printed logo and address of photographer on back.

Oval framed portrait of a young girl with her hair in bow in an oval shaped decorative border. Tintype portrait in a paper mat with embossed frame.

Visiting card portrait of a young lady in high lace collar with printed ad fro photographer on back.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Balding man with mustache wearing a coat with vest and bow tie

Cased tintype of a boy seated next to two girls in polka dot dresses

Cased tintype of a young woman in dress

Girl with hair parted in middle

Man in high-buttoned coat

Man with hair parted on far right

Man with mustache wearing a coat and bow tie

Portrait of a man with a mustache wearing a coat with vest

Two boys posed next to a girl on a chair

Woman in high lace collar

Young girl with her hair in bow

Young lady in high lace collar and chain around neck

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