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
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
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
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