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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Kansas City History

Women’s History & Representation

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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.

Oval inset of woman in dark, belted dress, clasp at collar, some stitching around buttons; hair pulled back.

Visiting card portrait in red bordered oval frame of a woman in dress with short, dark lace collar; hair pulled back loosely.

Visiting card vignette portrait of a woman in tight-fitting dress with ruffled sleeves with an printed illustration on back with the name and address of the photographer.

Visiting card portrait with a printed boarder around oval inset of woman seated in embroidered dress with lace collar, arms crossed with an printed illustration and the name and address of the...

Visiting card portrait of a married woman seated in long, full, dark, belted dress with lace-trimmed V-neck collar; hair pulled back; fringed curtain in corner of backdrop mounted on card with printed...

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.

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

Cased tintype of a young woman in dress

Portrait of a woman hands folded on fringed chair arm

Woman in dark, belted dress

Woman in dress with short, dark lace collar

Woman in tight-fitting dress with ruffled sleeves

Woman seated in embroidered dress with lace collar

Woman seated in long, full, dark, belted dress

Woman seated, leaning on tassled chair back

Young lady in high lace collar and chain around neck

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