- 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...
- War. The bulk of the
collection comprises ambrotypes, tintypes, and
cartes de visite of
individual soldiers and
officers from both
sides of the conflict...
-
lived and
worked in the
Netherlands in the 19th century,
produced cartes de visite, but was best
known as a
photographer of
students at the University...
- 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"...
-
begins June 1863 - "Bostonian"
takes copies of
McPherson & Oliver's
cartes de visite of
Peter and
Gordon to New York July 4, 1863 –
Etchings of Peter, Gordon...
-
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...
- encomp****ed
several different formats following the
fashions of the day,
cartes-
de-
visite in the 1860s,
cabinet cards in the
following decade, as well as larger-sized...
- Herald. London.
August 16, 1860. p. 6. Darrah,
William C. (1981).
Cartes de Visite in
Nineteenth Century Photography. Gettysburg, PA: W. C.
Darrah Publishing...
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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...
-
several small portraits on a
single larger plate,
useful when
making cartes de visite. It was
during the wet
plate era that the use of
bellows for focusing...
