cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
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- Small-format photographs affixed to card stock, popular in the mid-19th century. They went out of fashion in the 1870s. The photographs were typically portraits and the image was a standard size of 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches; they were generally produced by a multiple-lens camera that created several images on a single full-sized negative plate. Full-size prints from the plate were cut into sections measuring 4 x 2 1/2 inches, and the pieces were often mounted on cards, which initially served as visitors' cards; it later became the custom to exchange them on birthdays and holidays, and to collect cartes-de-visite of friends, family members, and celebrities in albums. Examples are card photographs patented by the Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in 1854 and similar items produced by Mathew B. Brady and other photographers.
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cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
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cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- UF card photographs (cartes-de-visite)
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cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
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Bagley, Susannah Rogers (Whipple)
- ba000036
- Item
- circa 1857
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Susannah Rogers Whipple, who married Rev. Daniel Bagley on August 15, 1840. She was born in 1819, raised in Massachusetts, and died in Seattle in 1913. Their son was Clarence B. Bagley.
- ba000035
- Item
- circa 1860
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
See prior photo for description.
- ba000038
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Portrait of George C. Baker as a child.
- ba000040
- Item
- circa 1880
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
McGowan, J. D. (Photographer)
- ba000042
- Item
- circa 1880
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
McGowan, J. D. (Photographer)
- ba000043
- Item
- circa 1867
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Susan Baly, wife of John Graham
- ba000044
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Dr. Forbes Barclay, pioneer of 1839, married Maria Pambrun.
Buchtel & Stolte
- ba000041
- Item
- circa 1880
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
McGowan, J. D. (Photographer)
- ba000046
- Item
- circa 1882
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000045
- Item
- circa 1873
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Maria, a daughter of Hudson Bay Company's chief factor, Pierre Chrysoloque Pambrun and Catherine Humperville. She was born at Fraser Lake, British Columbia, on October 25, 1826. She married Dr. Forbes Barclay and lived in Oregon City until her death in April of 1890.
- ba000047
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Episcopal bishop of Olympia, Washington.
- ba000048
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Hennigar (Middletown, Conn.)
- ba000049
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000051
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Rogers (Photographer)
- ba000054
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000053
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000056
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000059
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000060
- Item
- 1865-01-01
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Portrait of Mrs. P. T. Barnum of Salem.
- ba000055
- Item
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000057
- Item
- circa 1880
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
James W. Barlow, son of Samuel Barlow
- ba000058
- Item
- circa 1872
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
John Lawson Barlow, son of Samuel Barlow, about 1872
- ba000063
- Item
- circa 1864
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
- ba000064
- Item
- circa 1865
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Thompson & Paxton (Photographers)