Family portrait album
Carte de visite photographs
Collection dates: undated
Album of carte de visite photographs, undated, unidentified individuals, bound in an intricate album.
This collection consists of a photograph album of carte de visite photographs. Carte de visite photographs are photographs mounted on a piece of paper, often the size of a formal 'visting card'. These types of photographs were popular from circa 1850-1910. Carte de visites are patented by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in Paris, 1854.
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