Young Girl with Doll and Doll Buggy, circa 1865

THF210619 / Young Girl with Doll and Doll Buggy, circa 1865
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Artifact Overview

A warmly dressed girl posed with her doll in a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, studio for this carte-de-visite around 1865. The carte-de-visite is 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 1860

Subject Date

circa 1860

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

88.0.1252.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Albumen process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4 in
Width: 2.375 in

Inscriptions

Text on center back of carte reads: DAVIS BROTHERS / 17 Pleasant St. / Portsmouth, N.H. Red bordered typed label adhered on back: 2886