#occupational portrait
Daguerreotype portrait of a sailor smoking a pipe in Cairo, Egypt, taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1843-1844.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Portrait of people posing in the H. Moschke Ltd. store in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), South Africa, c. 1900-1910. Published by Detroit Publishing Company.
Source: Library of Congress.
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Portrait of a woman spinning wool somewhere in Algeria, c. 1870-1900. Published by French photography firm Neurdein Brothers.
Source: Library of Congress.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a group of Italian shepherd musicians known as Pifferari photographed by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey in Rome, the Papal States, 1842.
Source: Sotheby’s.
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American tintype portrait of a white banjo player and a black fiddle player, c. 1860-1880.
Source: Sotheby’s.
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ca. 1880-90s, [occupational cabinet card of an ice salesman posed with his wagon and team of horses], E. Cook
viaCapitol Gallery, CDVs & Cabinet Cards Collection
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![ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card of a taxidermist on his porch with his pieces and pet dog]via Capitol Ga](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4158496e638f0b13c6002b0868f44ec7/tumblr_np9x162G6z1qa51rdo1_1280.jpg "ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card of a taxidermist on his porch with his pieces and pet dog]via Capitol Ga")
ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card of a taxidermist on his porch with his pieces and pet dog]
viaCapitol Gallery, CDVs & Cabinet Card Collection
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![ca. 1860-90s, [wacky composite photographic advertising carte de visite for F. Glenton]via Capitol G](https://64.media.tumblr.com/bc396e1ade37f8fd7eac091e70d7cbff/tumblr_np9wnrVFzs1qa51rdo1_1280.jpg "ca. 1860-90s, [wacky composite photographic advertising carte de visite for F. Glenton]via Capitol G")
ca. 1860-90s, [wacky composite photographic advertising carte de visite for F. Glenton]
viaCapitol Gallery, CDV and Cabinet Card Collection
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ca. 1870-90s, [cabinet card, Pygmalion and Galatea-esque occupational portrait of a sculptor working on a *suspiciously life-like* bust of a woman], Joseph Gamber
viaCapitol Gallery, CDV & Cabinet Card Collection
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ca. 1845, [daguerreotype portrait of a broody Horace Griswold Bliss, purported to be Madison, Wisconsin’s first pharmacist]
“Bliss moved to Madison in 1847 and operated Bliss Drug Store until 1849 when he sold his store and moved with his family to Jackson, Michigan.”
viathe Wisconsin Historical Society, Cased Image Collection ca. 1839-1899
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