Posing for the camera c. 1900

http://www.old-picture.com/american-legacy/000/Photographer-Portrait-Posing.htm

A slave family in a Georgia cotton field, c.1860

Hans P. Kraus Jr. to Exhibit Early British Masters of Photography at Masterpiece London

http://artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=47918

Francis Hetling’s Victorian Waifs fakes

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/francis_hetlings_victorian_waifs/

Double portrait, c.1870

Portraits of Thomas Woolner and John Ruskin

A Country Family 1864

The Princess of Wales, 1889

Victorian Photography

from the brilliant Jeremy Paxman series