Portrait of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, circa 1855
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Artifact Overview
Cartes-de-visite - small photographic prints on cardboard stock - were made in professional photographers' studios. This early example shows a portrait of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, wife of renowned poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 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)
Date Made
circa 1859-1865
Subject Date
circa 1850
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2012.0.5.16
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Albumen process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.875 in
Width: 2.375 in
Inscriptions
Text on back of carte reads:
PUBLISHED BY / THE NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHIC CO. / No.. 453 BROADWAY / NEW YORK
Ink stamp on back reads:
JOSEPH WARD / 125 WASHINGTON ST. / BOSTON
Handwritten in pencil on front under image:
Longfellows wife
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