Aerial View, Possibly New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1880
01
Artifact Overview
This carte-de-visite shows an aerial city view of an unidentified city--possibly New Orleans, Louisiana--around 1880. 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 1880
Subject Date
circa 1880
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2012.0.5.27
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 in decorative border printed on back:
Published by / S. T. BLESSING / No. 24 Chartres St. / NEW ORLEANS / Dealer in / CARDS, ALBUMS, FRAMES / PHOTOGRAPHIC / & ARTIST MATERIAL
Label with red border typed with number: 2372
Keywords |
|---|