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 vignette portrait of a man slightly profile in high-buttoned coat and bow tie with a illustration and decorative pinstripes surrounded the name and address of the photographer.

Card photograph of a Man sitting in stuffed armchair with woman standing to his left with the name and town of photo studio printed with flower boarder along bottom and studio name and an inscription...

Card photograph portrait of man with handlebar, the name and address of photo studio printed along bottom with an inscription on the back.

Date Published

1891-03-17

Tintype portrait of a man with mustache within decorative red printed boarder.

Date Published

1874-12-27

Visiting card portrait of a man with a mustache wearing a coat and bow tie with inscription on back and printed ad for studio.

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Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Man high-buttoned coat and bow tie

Man sitting in stuffed armchair with woman standing to his left

Man with handlebar mustache

Man with mustache

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

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives