
Fire Chief.
Oversized albumen print with corners trimmed to fit in an oval frame, ca. 1880 / src: Swann Galleries
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Fire Chief.
Oversized albumen print with corners trimmed to fit in an oval frame, ca. 1880 / src: Swann Galleries

Guy wearing a summer dress and posing with a broom, tintype, 1870’s-1880’s / src: Swann Galleries

Patriotic tintype of children
holding the flag and enacting Yankee Doodle Dandy
. 1870′s-1880′s / src: Swann Galleries

C. L. Swingley :: He’s all right, cabinet card by Swingley (probably C. L. Swingley) of New Castle in at an antique show. I believe the words “He’s All Right” refers to the 1888 Presidential Campaign for Benjamin Harrison. “He’s All Right” was the campaign song. / src: Atypicalart on Flickr

Unknown photographer, Untitled [Torpedo launching from a ship, probably the Sfax], ca. 1886 · SFMoMA / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Lidell Sawyer :: In the Twilight, 1888 / src : ICP-BARD-MFA

Tintype, from the collection of Carol Cronk Cole: “C. Pirnie + Carrie Patten Cronk, rear. Mr. + Mrs. Hammon, front – on wedding trip. July 1886. / via back then / Source: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Curious Photo, ca. 1880, unidentified photographer / src: George Eastman Museum on Flickr

Eadweard J. Muybridge :: Walking, taking off hat, ca. 1884-1887 / source: George Eastman Museum
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