Des Moines State Capitol with street car
Photo of the Iowa State capitol building with a street car. The photo is the size of a CDV. Back: written in pencil: “Iowa State Capitol, 1912”
Large crowd congregating outside Quaker meeting house
Outdoor view of the Quaker Meeting House in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The thin cdv paper implies a date in the 1860s. The card is backed on cardboard and inserted into a cardboard frame with an oval window cut in the cardboard,...
Dark-skin woman, portrait, front view, fancy collar
photo shows a dark skinned woman in a fancy dress with ruffled collar posing for a studio portrait. cdv shows her 3/4ths view. Back of card has the name of the studio: “Leisensing, Fort Dodge, Iowa” back: studio name: Leisensing,...
Young dark-skinned girl with earring
front: cdv portrait of a young, dark-skinned girl. She is dressed elegantly with earrings and a lace collar. Back: black cardboard with gold decoration and writing: “James, Photographer, Iowa City, Iowa. Negatives retained for future orders”
Rebecca, Charley & Rosa, Light-skinned Slave Children
CDV photograph of enslaved children in New Orleans with Caucasian phenotype, by Charles Paxson, New York. These cdvs were sold to raise money for abolitionist causes and create awareness and empathy for enslaved people. 1864. From the website: “Photograph shows...
Circassian woman in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Circassion women were part of the P.T. Barnum circus. Of course, they were not really from Circassia in the North Caucasus. Barnum hyped them as such because of the renown of the beauty of women from that region and the...
“John Brown Exhibiting His Hangman,” Jefferson Davis
The front of this 1860’s CDV Political Cartoon depicts John Brown Exhibiting His Hangman” Jefferson Davis who is dressed as a woman and in a bird cage. Here are a few descriptions of the card from dealers: “Northern rejoicing at...
Portrait of Young Black Man
This cdv portrait was cut to be placed on on an oval format on rectangular black cardstock. The photo shows a young Black man in a stand-up collar, jacket, and tie,The lower right corner has gold lettering “J. W. Kramer....