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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Women’s History & Representation

1 - 12 of 12 items

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

Couple seated in a fake row boat with lake backdrop. Woman is wearing a hat and man has a mustache and is holding a hat.

Vignette visiting card portrait of a man quarter profile in coat, vest, and bow tie.

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

Man seated on fringed velvet chair in dark suit and bowtie.

Man standing behind two seated women all in dark dress; man has small cravat, women have large puffy collars; women's hair is pulled back.

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

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 mustachioed man with right arm on pedestal with illustration featuring name and address of studio printed on back.

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

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.

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

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

Couple seated in a fake row boat

Man in coat, vest, and bow tie

Man in high-buttoned coat

Man seated on fringed velvet chair

Man standing behind two seated women

Man standing with arm on sofa

Man with mustache wearing a coat and bow tie

Mustachioed man with right arm on pedestal

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

Two men

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

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