sloth unleashed

ca. 1870-1900s, [candid tintype portrait of a young woman with one arm]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, Tintype Collection

ca. 1870-90s, [tintype portrait of four young women mourning their dog]

via Paul Frecker London, Post Mortem Collection

ca. 1885, [cabinet card, portrait of a lady posed with a partner near and dear to her heart], Vail Brothers

via George Eastman House Collection, acc. no. 80:0333:0018 

ca. 1890s, [tintype portrait of a young lady in a strange sheepswool outfit or costume, hiding her face behind a huge wool muff]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

ca. 1890s, [advertising cabinet card of a young woman holding signage and hawking newspapers for ‘The Register,’ 1861-1894], Freeman

via Capitol Gallery, Cabinet Cards

ca. 1860-70s, [hand tinted ambrotype  portrait of a women with her nine-string bango]

via Yale University’s Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection

ca. 1896, “Pearl and Diane with their bicycles, August 1896,” [cabinet card, portrait of two young ladies with their bikes]

via KaufmaNelson Vintage Photographs

ca. 1870s-1900s, [cabinet card portrait of ballet dancer Isolina Torri], Tomlinson

via the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Treasures of the American Performing Arts 1875-1923 

ca. 1850-60s, [tintype portrait tintype of a young woman posed with a her rocking melodeon]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-1900s, [cabinet card, portrait of Eva Slater wearing an Egyptian inspired stage costume], Webster & Albee.

via the New York Public Library, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Treasures of the American Performing Arts 1875-1923

ca. 1880-90’s, [cabinet card, portrait of a bespectacled guitar player], J.D. Strunk

via Ebay

ca. 1870-1900’s, [cabinet card, portrait of Gertie Granville, trick shooter, posing with her rifle and one foot on a stuffed deer. She wears a leopard skin top with a matching hunting bag], Houseworth’s Celebrities

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1860-80’s, [carte de visite portrait of “Annie Lord Chamberlain, Musical Medium, showing spirit hands, instruments, etc."] William H. Mumler 

via Larry Gottheim’s BeHold Fine Photographics

ca. 1840’s, [daguerreotype portrait of two women embracing, one wearing tinted spectacles]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographics, Skylight Gallery

ca. 1870-90’s, [cabinet cart, portrait of sharpshooter Bo Durtha, with her a single shot tip-up rifle and a mirror for over-the-shoulder trick shooting]

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1870-90’s, [cabinet card, staged hold-up of a couple perpetrated by another woman], H. N. Kent

via Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing, Cabinet Cards

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

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery