19th Century Photography

Photogravure of San Salvador in Venice, Italy. The Chiesa di San Salvatore (of the Holy Savior) is a church in Venice, northern Italy. Known in Venetian a...

Photogravure of St. Martha's Square from the Campo di Marte canal in Venice, Italy. A church buolt in the 14th century and dedicated to S. Martha once stood in the immediate neighbou...

Presented is a collage of six vintage cabinet card photographs of Colorado Springs and its surrounding areas, dating to the 1890s. The sepia toned...

Walnut framed photograph of 19th Century racing bicyclist.

Antique sepia photograph of a 19th Century football player in a rectangular walnut frame.

This large Antique Albumen Photograph, Framed, Roman Coliseum, 19th Century is quite incredible and would be a fascinating historical artifact. Albumen prints were a popular photogra...

Victorian English Country Victorian maple framed embroidery of the clipper ship Arthusa with memorial photographs.  

Antique Photograph of Man In Military Uniform, Framed, C1860 Measures - 21"H x 19"W x 1"D A vintage photograph depicting a man in a military uniform, dating to approximately 1860. ...

Late Victorian golf photograph. A sepia toned late Victorian Colonial golf photograph of a group of male golfers, the group containing a few children. The gentlemen are wearing an assortment of clothing, some in caps, some in bowler hats, a couple with top hats, one gentleman wearing a military uniform with medals. The golf clubs they are holding are early wooden scared head long nose hickory clubs, the sort made by the great Scottish clubmakers like Tom Morris, Willie Park, Alex Patrick, Charlie...

German ethnographic study of identified tribal people of South Africa. Thirty five albumen photographs. Circa 1870's. Overall size 17" x 21.5". not signed rare provenance...

A pair of large portrait photographs in oval ormolu frames This handsome couple come from Brest in France, I do not know the identity of the subjects but the pictures are by H Dub...

Walnut framed photograph of 19th Century lady with umbrella on path (Companion Pieces: 052554B-E)

Grant, Ulysses S. Large Albumen Photograph Magnificent large albumen photograph of Ulysses S. grant by Abraham Bogardus. An unusually large late (circa 1880) photograph of Grant, post-presidency, in formal dress, sitting and in partial profile. Mounted on thick card with the photographer’s credit and address (“A. Bogardus / 872 Broadway, NY”) on matte below the photo. The photographer, Anthony Bogardus, was a photographic pioneer, described by the New York Times as “the best-known photographer in the United States” in his prime who took “the first photographs of Gen. Grant, Gen. Hancock, Samuel D. Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher and other equally well-known men.” The engravers Currier & Ives produced an engraving based on this photograph, calling it “the last and best taken of General Grant...

A Gelatine print of the Yacht Foam on port tack on the Solent. Signed in ink to the right hand side, Beken and Sons Cowes.

Early silver gelatin photographic print of the sailing yacht Venessa sailing in the Solent, flying the white ensign of the Royal Yacht Squadron, by Kirk ...

Original photograph of Edum L. Pease. English Barrister from 1875-1876. One of a pair of framed photographs. Original frame is detailed with a heraldic appointment. Photograph is mat...

A framed Gelatin photograph of the crew of HMS Dido on deck, circa 1880.