Daguerreotype of Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field at the age of 16 by Rufus Anson, 1862.

Hand-colored ambrotype of an unidentified soldier in Union uniform holding the hand of an unidentified woman, between 1861 and 1865.

hanracecarnah:

Late 1860’s
Pencil notation on back: “Nelly Moore”

(via what-floats-my-boat)

Tintype of an unknown woman with her face scratched out and a Union soldier, c. 1861-65.

She must have made someone very unhappy…

French silk dress by Depret, Paris.

ca. 1867-69

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Proud Maisie, a drawing by Frederick Sandys of Mary Jones (later Mrs. Sandys), 1868.

English riding habits originally published in The Queen, Aug. 1869.

“The Young Swell.” Apparently this is a (disturbing) tobacco label copyrighted in 1869.

DOGMAN.

Alexandra, Princess of Wales (1844–1925, later Queen) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873), 1864.

Penelope by Charles-François Marchal (1825–1877), ca. 1868.

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Croquet,” c. 1866.

Nothing like croquet with a leering gent!

Courtesy the Library of Congress.

Women and bonnets, England, 1860.

Courtesy the NYPL.

“L. Boschetti,” glass negative c.1855-1865.

Via the Library of Congress.

Badly damaged negative of actress Miss Madelaine Henriques, c. 1865.

Via the Library of Congress.

A clear version of the image can be seen in this sterograph from the George Eastman House.

Portrait of Lady Bury by Mathew Brady’s New York City studio. Date unknown, around 1860.

This looks so much like a painting!

Via the Library of Congress.