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

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

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

Card photograph of a Young man leaning on pedestal with the name and address of the photographer printed along the bottom and on the back.

Card photograph of a young man with mustache with the name and address of the photographer printed along the bottom and on the back.

Visiting card portrait of a young man with mustache wearing coat with printed ad for the photographer on back.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

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

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

Young man leaning right arm on pedestal

Young man with mustache

Young man with mustache wearing coat

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Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives