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

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Card photograph of a girl in eyelet lace dress with lace up front with the name and address of the photo studio partially trimmed off the bottom and an printed illustration printed on back.

Visiting card oval vignette of man and woman side-by-side with the name and address of the photographer on back.

Visiting card portrait with an oval inset of woman in elaborate dress (lace or crochet over top), hair pulled up with long ringlets in back and a printed ad on back for the photographer.

Oval inset visiting card photograph of a woman in high buttoned dress with lacy white collar and the name and address of the photo studio printed on back.

Oval inset visiting card photograph of a woman with large lace bow and cross necklace with the name and address of the photographer printed on back.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Girl in eyelet lace dress with lace up front

Man and woman side-by-side

Woman in elaborate dress

Woman in high buttoned dress

Woman with large lace bow and cross necklace

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