Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

ca. 1860, [tintype portrait of a mother and her child, posed cheek to cheek]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a disgruntled looking gentleman, holding his vest lapels and a book], Woodruff

via Jeffery Kraus Antique Photographics, Daguerreotype Collection

ca. 1860, [ambrotype portrait of a theatrically posed and costumed boy with a jaunty hat, standing beside a complacent woman]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a small child with a shot gun and a dead rabbit], George W. Valleau

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

ca. 1860-80’s, [ambrotype portrait of a smiling gentleman]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1845, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with a slight smile]

via Antiq-Photo, Daguerreotype Collection

ca. 1861-65, [hand-tinted tintype portrait of a pensive Union soldier in a captain’s uniform, resting his arm on the table]

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of an artist gentleman holding a paintbrush, wearing an apron with creative hand tinting]

via the Daguerreian Society, Greg French Collection

ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of an intense looking law-man]

via Heritage Auctions