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

Vignette visiting card quarter-profile photograph of man in buttoned coat, neck tie, and high collar; hair parted at side and swept across.

Vignette visiting card portrait of a man wearing dark suit and tie with short, curly hair.

Visiting card photograph of a woman in dark fitted dress with white high collar leaning on chair with an advertisement for the photographer printed on back.

Vignette visiting card portrait of a woman with elaborate collar; cameo earrings and choker with an advertisement for the photographer printed on back.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Man in buttoned coat, neck tie, and high collar

Man wearing dark suit and tie

Woman in dark fitted dress

Woman with elaborate collar

Types (Collection)

Genres (Collection)

Time Periods (Collection)

Subjects (Collection)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives