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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Unidentified young child

Unidentified young child

Transcription from back: “Don’t know who this is. First Premium at the Oregon State Fair, 1880, for the best Cabinets and Cards awarded to H. S. Shuster, Court St. Salem, Oregon.”

H. S. Shuster Studio (Photographer)

Unidentified man

Unidentified man

Transcription from back: “Freckled face, light red hair, deep red whiskers. Jimmy, Native of webfoot. Oakland, Douglas Co. Or.”

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