19th Century Cased Photographs
May 2026
These objects are all early photographic formats from the mid-19th century, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, often hand-tinted and presented in cases.
48 objects · 2 institutions
Artist with His Palette and Brushes
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1855
Avondale
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1885
Blessed Art Thou Among Women, from "American Pictorial Photography, Series II" (1901); edition 34/150
Art Institute of Chicago
1899
Boy with Cigar
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1855
Boy with hobby horse
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1862–65
Child in off-shoulder polka dot dress
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1860–65
Child with Drum
Cleveland Museum of Art
1850s
Francis Wayland Sherman at the Age of 2 Years 10 Months
Cleveland Museum of Art
1862
Girl with Doll
Cleveland Museum of Art
1850s
Husband
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1860–65
Husband and Wife
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1860–65
Industrial Buildings (Reflected in Erie Canal, Meadville?)
Cleveland Museum of Art
1862
Mother and Child
Art Institute of Chicago
1899
Mother and Child
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1865–70
Mother with son with blind right eye
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1855
Poodle
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1861–63
Portrait of Man Leaning Away from Camera
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 1840s
Portrait of Viola Mead
Art Institute of Chicago
1860/99
Portrait of a Boy, No. 10 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150
Art Institute of Chicago
1897
Portrait of a Woman
Cleveland Museum of Art
1860s
Portrait of a Young Man
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1855
Portrait of a Young Woman
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1855–60
Prize Horse in winter, Chemung County, New York
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1852–56
Seated Masonic lodge master and wife
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1852–53
Seated boy in tasseled cap
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1858–61
Seated couple in mourning attire
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1856–58
Seated old woman
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1864–65
Self-Portrait in Painting Studio
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1843
Somebody's Luggage (Miniature Wedding Album of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren)
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1863
Standing boy with bottle curls
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1853–54
Statue of a Youth in Large Hat (from a John R. Johnston album)
Cleveland Museum of Art
before 1857
Teenage girl with bottle curls
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1855–60
The Hold-Up
Cleveland Museum of Art
1880s
The Homework Table & Parents of Five Children Doing Homework
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1858–60
The Manger
Art Institute of Chicago
1899
The Music Teacher
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1850s
The Music Teacher and His Wife
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1850s
The Music Teacher's Wife
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1850s
Twin Babies
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1870
Two Men Staging a Fight in a Studio
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1860
Untitled (Winter Landscape)
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1900
Western Portico of the Parthenon
Cleveland Museum of Art
1882
Wife
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1860–65
Woman and Child Playing Dominoes at Table
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1898
Woman with elaborate nautical backdrop
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1860–65
Young Man in Athletic Outfit
Cleveland Museum of Art
c.1857
Young Woman in Pantalettes
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1855
Young Woman in a Patterned Dress
Cleveland Museum of Art
1860s