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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...
- publish the portraits of the Royal Family as a set of cartes-de-visite. In August 1860, the cartes were released in the form of a Royal Album, consisting...
- Herald. London. August 16, 1860. p. 6. Darrah, William C. (1981). Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography. Gettysburg, PA: W. C. Darrah Publishing...
- 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"...
- titled Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France, 1912 or Automobile Delage, Grand Prix de l'Automobile-Club de France, Le Tréport, 26 juin 1912 Sources...
- 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...
- War. The bulk of the collection comprises ambrotypes, tintypes, and cartes de visite of individual soldiers and officers from both sides of the conflict...
- M****achusetts. In 1854, with proceeds from sales of the narrative and cartes-de-visite captioned, "I sell the shadow to support the substance", she paid off...
- These proved po****r and Carjat later used reproductions to make cartes de visite, and the photographer Pierre Petit produced enlarged versions. In 1858...