The author even credits the carte de visite with the rise of “a celebrity industry that endures to this day”. In Cartomania, Frecker charts the “rise, dominance and eventual decline” of the phenomenon ...

Cartes-de-visite of the queen sold in their tens of thousands, with events such as the death of Prince Albert in December 1861 triggering large sales of portraits. It was later claimed though that ...

When Eugene Disderi patented the carte de visite in 1855 he was thinking that cheap mass-production of photographs might get him out of bankruptcy. In a few years his idea would mak him one of the ...

Carte-de-visite of a woman wearing a checked dress and leaning on the back of a chair with her right hand. Credit Line Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and ...

Appraisal: Carte de Visite Album, ca. 1865, from Vintage Kansas City. Watch Wesley Cowan's appraisal of Carte de Visite album, ca. 1865, in Vintage Kansas City. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is ...

Carte-de-visite of Miss Thiele shown in half portrait. Her body is facing the camera, but her head is turned one quarter to her left and she looks off camera. Her hair is gathered at the back of her ...

Visitors to the exhibit at BAMPFA can look at over 80 cartes de visites, including nine of Truth. The museum will also offer roundtables, films and a workshop where people can create their own cartes.

Arabella Chapman poses for a portrait from her public carte de visite album, circa 1878 - 1880s. William L. Clements Library During Victorian times, it was fashionable for people to exchange ...

John Reddy placed the carte de visite showing his son in just such an album. It eventually would hold more than 150 portraits. Most, like young Herbert’s, were of Reddy family members.