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)

338 Collections results for cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

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Adair, Inez and Ward, Florence

Full length portrait of three children. Two of the children are identified as Florence Ward and Inez Adair. The third child is unidentified. Transcription from back: “Florence Ward and Inez Adair, 1836?”

Ellsworth & Cardwell (Portland, Or.)

Curry, Gov. George L.

Transcription from front: “Gov. Geo. L Curry & w - 18__.” Transcription from back: “Letter from George Curry to W.H. Rees, March 31, 1874. ‘I send you in answer to your request a photography of wife and self from a picture at the time I held office, 1855. It is the only one we have.’ (Chloe Boone is his wife).”

Buchtel & Stolte

Foster

Transcription from front: “__ Foster, son of Daniel B. Foster.”

Thwaites Studio (Photographer)

Gibson

Transcription from back: “Mrs. Gibson, with [ ] Addie boarded when attending St. Helen’s Hall.”

Joseph Buchtel Studio (Photographer)

Greer, Elwin and Will

Transcription from back: “Taken at Dallas Oregon, Aug. 10, ‘70, Therm. about 95 degrees. Boys were worried by the slow artist. Elwin’s birthday, he was 5. Will 3. Sons of Geo. H. Greer.”

Helm, Nettie

Transcription from back: “Nettie Helm, daughter of Elizabeth Sager Helm. Gift of Myra Helm.”

M. F. Wilhoit Studio (Photographer)

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