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Child Seated in a Three-Wheeled Baby Carriage, 1868-1870

THF210585 / Child Seated in a Three-Wheeled Baby Carriage, 1868-1870
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Artifact Overview

Photographer Rudolph Adelbert Sebastian Mayer created this portrait carte-de-visite in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 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 celebrities and family.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)

Date Made

1868-1870

Subject Date

1868-1870

Creator Notes

Photography by Rudolph Adelbert Sebastian Mayer for the Rudolph Mayer & Co., Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2012.0.5.18

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford

Material

Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Carbon process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4.125 in
Width: 2.438 in

Inscriptions

Text on center back of carte reads: RUDOLPH MAYER / ARTISTS / & / PHOTOGRAPHERS / Castle Place / BELFAST Text printed along back borders reads: PHOTOGRAPHIC ART ESTABLISHMENT / NEGATIVE IN___ / PORTRAITS IN CARBON- -MAYEROTYPES / PLEASE QUOTE ABOVE NUMBER FOR EXTRA COPIES Red bordered typed label adhered on back: 4203