Squirrel Eating a Nut in a Photographic Studio, circa 1865

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Artifact Overview

Cartes-de-visite - small photographic prints on cardboard stock - were made in professional photographers' studios. This circa 1865 example shows a squirrel eating a nut. Americans collected and exchanged cartes-de-visites, which remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)

Subject Date

circa 1865

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2012.0.5.11

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: 2.375 in