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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Card photograph of three young boys in coats within circular inset with the name and address of the photographer on bottom and handwritten inscription on back.

Two young men seated with three young ladies standing behind them, possibly siblings. Note along bottom gives first names and ages.

Visiting card portrait of a young boy in coat and striped necktie with inscription on back with ad for the photo studio.

Young man dressed in dark jacket with piping, standing in front of stone archway backdrop.

Portrait of young man in a jacket with bow tie.

Tintype portrait within an embossed oval shaped decorative border of a young man wearing a coat and bow tie.

Young man, early teens wearing suit with knickers, standing with right hand resting on a wicker chair in front of a decorative backdrop.

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Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Three young boys

Two young men seated with three young ladies standing behind them

Young boy slightly profile in coat and striped necktie

Young man dressed in dark jacket with piping

Young man in a jacket with bow tie

Young man wearing a coat and a bow tie

Young man with right hand resting on a wicker chair

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