Close-up of cabinet card portrait. Private Collection.
The card’s also a rarer shade of pink with dark pink lettering on the front. The back is plain except for the sitter’s written last name.
W.H Drake cabinet card. Private Collection.
Tag Archives: 1890s-1900s
Victorian teen Mc Bracken of Waterloo, Wisconsin
Mr. Handsome of Rochester N.Y
Rochester Victorian young man. Cabinet Card. Private Collection.
What was going on in his head when he decided to pose like this? His long front hair’s curled atop instead of slicked back like his contemporaries, not only that but his tie is going sideways too. Cuckoo bird! Did he try to be different? His hair reminds me of Mr. Burghy of the Civil War era. We’ll forgive him. He’s still a cutie!
Miller. Rochester N.Y. Handsome young man with curl.
Photographer: Miller. 146 State Street. Rochester. N.Y.
Five boys, no girl
Five boys, no girl. Cabinet card. Private Collection.
I’m sure she would have liked to have a daughter too, but that wasn’t part of God’s plan now, was it?
The father looks mellow in comparison. I’m not sure what he’s holding in his hand. It looks like the back of a cabinet card.
The brothers don’t look far apart from each other. I like how the photographer arranged this family by height, taking the photo horizontally with a white backdrop and the parents in the middle.
Photographer: Clinkenbeard. Palace Photo Car. Blank back.
The little boy in the clouds
1890s-1900s portrait of little boy by GILBERT. Cabinet card. Private Collection.
The boy looks like he’s standing in a fog or clouds, a very beautiful Edwardian child with a high collar on and a light colored silk cravat with white fleur de lis. He’s looking off to the side, all the while appearing quite focused.
There’s some surreal quality to this cabinet card and it is aging well, as if getting patina.
Photographer: GILBERT. The back is blank. The front bottom was clipped to fit in an album. As a result the address is half missing. 228 (or 229) Fifth Ave. PTTS (or PIIS)
The Eavesdropping Two
1890s-1900s Cabinet card. Private Collection.
More ladies than gents on this beautiful cabinet card of what looks like three sisters and their brother with the light bowler. They’re posing in a fun and unusual way.
That or actors? I cleaned up and enhanced this one. The lady in front moved some and is a bit blurry, but ever-so-slightly.
The front and back are blank on white card stock.
Cabinet card.
Digital restoration work titled The Eavesdropping Two by Caroline C. Ryan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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