Use for card photographs on mounts measuring about 4 by 2 1/2 inches. Primarily used for portraits and functioning as calling cards; flourished from the 1860s to the 1880s.
AAT
3000127141
card photographs (cartes-de-visite)
cards, sure
carte-de-visite photographs
cartes de visite
cartes de visite photographs
photographs, carte-de-visite
sure cards
13yrs ago
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