#cdv

[daguerreotyping]

Will you take Beef, carte de visite of a very courteous kitty circa 1865

[japonesices]

Era Kayo with a Toy Dog 1870s by Blue Ruin 1

Maiko (apprentice geisha) Era Kayo with a toy Japanese Chin dog.

[mistressoftheredrose]

happy birthday @simpingseafood

Happy birthday Sasha! 🎁🎈🎂🥳 Wish you all the best and a wonderful birthday! Best wishes from your friend @mistressoftheredrose

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

A suitable seasonal cdv most likely from a play? Unusual though

[shihlun]

1910 Japan-British Exhibition - Formosa Village - GLASS SLIDE

[revoltedstates]

W. J. Bishop and David S. Leach, reenlisted veteran volunteers of the 33rd Illinois Infantry. The 2nd view is from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

[romanovsonelastdance]

Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

[wgmbol]

Queen Marie Sophie of The Two Sicilies, born Duchess in Bavaria. A carte de visite photograph by Fratelli D'Alessandri, Rome circa 1861. From my own collection.

[sewlastcentury]

Spot the difference!

I recently added this carte de visite (left) to my collection of stout historical ladies. It was clearly retouched after it was taken and before the positive print was created - see the grain around her waist and left hip? The photographer ‘carved out’ negative space there to make her appear smaller/curvier. I ran it through Photoshop to try to restore what she might originally have looked like (right).

This was very common in period, and I have a bunch of images in my collection that show signs of retouching like this - but good retouchers could alter images without leaving behind traces like this, so we’ll never know how many pictures are floating around out there pretending to be unretouched...

(Unidentified woman, photograph by Atelier Bavaria, Munich, Germany, c. 1895. Collection of Kenna Libes, #23.75. Do not repost without credit.)

[Posts in this series are tagged #photoshopshop]

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection "Dick Pollard" P.E. Gibbs Photographer, 1427 Main St., Richmond, Va.

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of two cats snuggling above the handwritten caption "O dear," photographed by Henry Pointer c. 1870s

[japonesices]

Usumono Kimono 1870s by Blue Ruin 1

A geiko (geisha) wearing a usumono (gauze) kimono, associated with the months of July and August, when the weather is notoriously humid in Japan. She is holding a Western style parasol and a mushi-kago (insect cage), which helps to create a sense of the coming autumn.

[mistressoftheredrose]

Tiger from markocomics

really wanted to get better at drawing as I really wish to get commissions soon, I was inspired to do this from @nerdandjock-comic as I am a fan of the comics and Tiger is a really adorable delinquent who deserves love 🥰🥰 it was fun drawing her in my art style!

Tiger belongs to @nerdandjock-comic all rights reserved to them

[daguerreotype-era]

cdv of a daguerreotype

[nieuwe-secession]

[gpawj]

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