Ironworker Wearing a Leather Apron and Holding Tongs, circa 1865
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A young man with tongs and a leather apron posed in photographer F. L. Stuber's South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, studio around 1865. This portrait carte-de-visite is a product of his sitting. Cartes-de-visite, small photographic prints on cardboard stock, were popular in the United States from the 1860s through the 1880s. Americans commonly collected and exchanged them to commemorate family members or celebrities.
A young man with tongs and a leather apron posed in photographer F. L. Stuber's South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, studio around 1865. This portrait carte-de-visite is a product of his sitting. Cartes-de-visite, small photographic prints on cardboard stock, were popular in the United States from the 1860s through the 1880s. Americans commonly collected and exchanged them to commemorate family members or celebrities.
Artifact
Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
Date Made
circa 1865
Subject Date
circa 1865
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
95.97.11
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Albumen process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.75 in
Width: 2.25 in
Inscriptions
Text of photographer's imprint reads on back: FROM / F. L. STUBER'S / PHOTOGRAPHIC ART GALLERY / THIRD STREET, / SOUTH BETHLEHEM. / PA.
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