Young Girl with Doll and Doll Buggy, circa 1880

THF210621 / Young Girl with Doll and Doll Buggy, circa 1880
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Artifact Overview

A young girl posed with her doll in a photographer's studio for this carte-de-visite around 1880. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)

Date Made

circa 1880

Subject Date

circa 1880

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

93.0.13.2.11

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Albumen process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4.125 in
Width: 2.5 in