Wild West Wonders was the penultimate live sale, with one more scheduled for October. We’re calling that one Holabird’s Grand ...

Mayall also captures the spirit of democracy with his carte de visites – pocket sized photographs - that anyone could buy of the stars of the day, from Wilkie Collins to Queen Victoria.

A small card identifying a person in connection with his or her business, given to a client, potential customer, etc.

Recently, a long-forgotten rectangle of thick, cream-coloured card slipped out from between the pages of an equally long-ignored file – a solitary survivor from a batch of carte de visite ...

A sepia tone carte-de-visite of a Freedmen’s School. Standing closing together in front of a large building composed of logs and wide planks, several children are photographed on a bright day, ...

In 1854, French photographer André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patented the carte de visite, which was a small photographic image mounted on a thick piece of paper. Designed as a method for portraiture, it ...

Standard cartes de séjour If you have a normal carte de séjour - visiteur – which is most likely if you have retired to France for example – you can indeed begin your renewal application online. This ...

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, former merchant, actor, and daguerreotypist, patented his invention, the carte-de-visite (visiting card) photograph, in 1854. At nine-by-six centimeters, cartes were ...

This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases is incomplete or awaiting refinement. Researching the collection is a core component of our work, and we continue to ...

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.