Tag Archives: 1800s wedding photos

1890s bride and groom

Turn of the century wedding, couples, and portraiture

I found these old turn of the century wedding photos especially fascinating, especially the girl in the black wedding dress that looks quite corseted. I wish I knew more about turn of the century fashions, because I am guessing that the black would be from the 1890s and the white dresses from more about 1910s? [...]

1800s Photos from St. Louis, MO

This is my final set from the first batch of old photos. They appear to be taken mostly by St. Louis city photographers and photographers who were in the Carondelet neighborhood at the turn of the century. The two boys’ eyes haunt one photo, taken by Star Gallery… What silly looking turn of the century [...]

More scanned photos from the turn of the century St. Louis Photographers

These are more from the When Studio, with a different kind of back print, a totally unmarked old photo, my first from Crescent Studios, and J. Haas took some very proper looking headshots of young men. What grabs my eye from this batch is the interesting bridal photo with the bride in a black or [...]