Composer Stephen C. Foster, circa 1855
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Artifact Overview
This portrait carte-de-visite shows songwriter Stephen C. Foster, known as the "father of American music." The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. Americans collected and exchanged cartes-de-visite--most popular from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s--to commemorate family members or celebrities.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
Subject Date
circa 1855
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2012.0.5.56
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Ink
Technique
Albumen process
Mounting
Handwriting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4 in
Width: 2.375 in
Inscriptions
Label on front under image reads:
STEPHEN C. FOSTER / "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year __ / ... J.M. Greene, in the Clerk's Office of District Court__ / ...United States for the Northern DIstrict of Ohio."
Handwritten in ink on back of carte:
To Mrs. A. S. Robinson / This copy of the / only correct (sic) likeness / in existence of my late brother Stephen C. / Foster, is respectfully / presented by / Morrison Foster
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