Monday, October 29, 2018

Daguerreotype Portrait of 11-Year-Old Elihu Vedder Dressed As a Schoolboy (1847)


Daguerreotype portrait of 11-year-old Elihu Vedder dressed as a schoolboy, c. 1847. He would go on to be a noted American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet.

Source: Archives of American Art.

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Tintype Portrait of a Group of Young Men and Women Wearing Bathing Suits Taken Somewhere in the United States (1880's/1890's)


Tintype portrait of a group of young men and women wearing bathing suits taken somewhere in the United States, c. 1880-1900.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

Monday, October 15, 2018

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Monday, October 1, 2018

Portrait of Members of the London Branch Civil War Veterans Probably Taken in London, England (1910′s)


Portrait of members of the London Branch Civil War Veterans probably taken in London, England, c. 1910′s. From the book Souvenir of Abraham Lincoln published in 1920.