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    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...
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    daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card. Disdéri, a...
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    March 1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. He is most well known for his 1875 portrait...
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  • Napoleon III, and Queen Victoria appreciated its perpetuation in their carte-de-visite portraits which proliferated, circulated and were collected in the...
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  • card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4+1⁄4 by 6+1⁄2 inches). The carte de visite was displaced by the larger cabinet card in the second half of the...
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    photographers William D. McPherson and J. Oliver produced the original carte de visite photos of Peter showing his back. There are three variations of the...
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    Internet forums. British portrait photographer Harry Pointer created a carte de visite series featuring cats posed in various situations in the early 1870s...
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    adoption from France, they were called une carte d'adresse from 1615 to 1800 and then became carte de visite or visiteur with the advent of photography...
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    with a peak in the 1860–90 period. During the mid-19th century, the carte de visite became one of the more popular uses of the albumen method. In the 19th...
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    album (the 2009 reissue kept the track list title "Carte-de-Visite, SOTL, 2007"). "Carte de Visite" (lit. "Card of Visit") is French for "Visiting Card"/"Calling...
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  • French photographer from Marseilles. He is credited with inventing the Carte de visite in 1851. However, another photographer, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri...
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    Beecher at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York. Carte de visite photographs of her were also sold to raise money for the abolitionist...
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    daguerreotype, undated Forshew Tintype, dated 1860 Forshew carte de visite, undated Forshew carte de visite, undated Forshew Cabinet Card, dated 1880 Forshew Stereo...
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    A carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth...
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    Hour”, Black History Magazine, December 27, 2012 Waiting for the Hour, Carte-de-visite of an emancipation watch night meeting, Smithsonian National Museum...
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    Nast cartoon asking the government to allow black soldiers to vote Carte de visite (c. 1866) featuring a woman dressed as Columbia and a man dressed as...
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    Gardner Carte de Visite Heritage Auctions Lot #43062 Lincoln holds a newspaper in one hand and his eyeglasses in the other in this autographed Carte de Visite...
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  • U.S.A., engraving after photo by Loomis Flickr. Carte de visite by G.H. Loomis Flickr. Carte de visite of soldier by G.H. Loomis Flickr. Woman reading...
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    romanticizing Truth as the "Libyan Sibyl." To support herself, Truth sold her carte de visite at lectures in addition to sheets of her favorite songs and copies...
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    5th rev. and expand. ed., 1982.) Safier, Marcel (2015). "The Gem and Carte de Visite Ferrotype". Retrieved May 21, 2019. Foster, Sheila J.; Heiting, Manfred;...
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    Carte de visite of the actor John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865...
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    afterwards. In 2007, ambient duo Stars of the Lid released a tour EP ('Carte De Visite') with a track titled 'J.P.R.I.P' with a soundbyte of Peel during the...
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  • by the federal government. Charles Conrad Jr. married his sister. A carte de visite photograph of him survives. Evans, Clement Anselm (September 18, 1899)...
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    City and in Philadelphia. The resulting images were produced in the carte de visite format and were sold for twenty-five cents each, with the profits of...
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  • posted overseas, surviving examples being of a quarter-plate size. The carte-de-visite replaced the pannotype within two years. In Ballarat Coldrey was active...
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    original on 17 December 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2019 – via Vimeo. "Carte De Visite". Boulder Media. 13 November 2015. Archived from the original on 17...
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  • credited for inventing the Carte de visite John Dodero (1946), a potter working in Raku fired ceramics Compañía Argentina de Navegación Dodero, a constituent...
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    Olive Oatman, Souvenir, San Jose, California c. 1860 Olive Oatman, carte de visite, Rochester, NY c. 1863 Mohave woman with tattoos, 1883 Mojave Indians...
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    (25 December 2015). "Carte-de-visite Photograph of Maximilian von Habsburg's Execution Shirt". mavcor.yale.edu. "En mémoire de Maximilien I – Marche...
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    40 cm (12" x 16") The brothers refused to reduce their images to the carte de visite size and, consequently, after four years, they ceased operating their...
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