"Quais de Bingen et Chateau d'Ehrenfels" (Embankment at Castle Ehrenfels), circa 1860

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Artifact Overview

This French carte-de-visite shows a European castle around 1860. Cartes-de-visite - small photographic prints on cardboard stock - were made in professional photographers' studios. 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 1860

Subject Date

circa 1860

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2012.0.5.22

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: 2.438 in

Inscriptions

Text under image on front: AD. BRAUN. / a DORNACH (H'Rhin) Photographer's text center back: AD. BRAUN / PHOTOGRAPHE. / A. DORNACH / (H'Rhin) Label adhered to back of image on left side reads: No.877. Quais de Bingen et chateau d'Ehrenfels Typed on red bordered label adhered to back: 4111