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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Advertising & Media

Kansas City History

Women’s History & Representation

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Four men, two seated in wood chairs, two standing, all wearing hats or derbies.

Visiting card portrait of man in hat, vest, and top-clasped coat with the year handwritten on back.

Date Published

1867

Man standing with arm on sofa; wearing dark suit, hat in right hand; moustache; decorative backdrop.

Visiting card photograph of a man with mustache and sideburns with an advertisement for the photographer.

Two men, the one on left sitting, the other standing with his right hand on the shoulder of the other man, both wearing a coat, vest and hat.

Two men similarly dressed in long jackets, vests, and neckties. The one on the right is standing holding his hat to his left side while the other is seated wearing eyeglasses and a hat. Both men are...

Two men seated on stone bench, one in slight profile the other holding a hat. Decorative painted backdrop of trees.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Four men all wearing hats

Man in hat, vest, and top-clasped coat

Man standing with arm on sofa

Man with mustache and sideburns

Two men

Two men in front of a winter backdrop

Two men seated on stone bench

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