Woman with Basket on a Flooded Street, circa 1865

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Artifact Overview

This circa 1865 carte-de-visite shows a flooded street, possibly in the American South. Cartes-de-visite were small photographic prints on cardboard stock made in professional photographers' studios. Americans commonly 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 1865

Subject Date

circa 1865

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2012.0.5.60

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford

Material

Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Albumen process
Mounting

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 2.375 in
Width: 4 in

Inscriptions

Red bordered label adhered on back typed: 2353
Woman with Basket on a Flooded Street, circa 1865