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Definition of Cartes de visite

Cartes de visite
Carte de visite Carte" de vi*site`, pl. Cartes de visite. [F.] 1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.

Meaning of Cartes de visite from wikipedia

- The carte de visite (French: [kaʁt də vizit], English: 'visiting card', abbr. 'CdV', pl. cartes de visite) was a format of small photograph which was...
- subjects of his cartes de visite. Photographs had previously served as calling cards, but Disdéri's invention of the paper carte de visite (i.e. "visiting...
- home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a po****r new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard"...
- House. The painting was widely spread by copies on engraved copies on cartes de visite, in which the details are clearer than the known painted version held...
- widely distributed as cabinet photos and postcards. Smith would carry cartes de visite of himself, selling them to visitors. He was known to travel for free...
- British photographic business, and manufacturer of cabinet cards and cartes de visite, and later picture postcards. In 1866, the photographers Andrew Taylor...
- Herald. London. August 16, 1860. p. 6. Darrah, William C. (1981). Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography. Gettysburg, PA: W. C. Darrah Publishing...
- and in 1865 he was granted tradesman's rights. Only a few of his cartes de visite remain from that time, and these are now stored in the family archive...
- States during the American Civil War. Although prints on paper (see cartes de visite and cabinet cards) soon displaced them as the most common type of photograph...
- Disdéri po****rized the multiplier through the m**** production of cartes de visite. The advent of stereoscopic photography (mainstream since the early...