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- Portrait of Horace Greeley, circa 1865 - Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Politicians, military officers, celebrities and other notable persons, such as abolitionist and editor Horace Greeley, were popular subjects.

- circa 1865
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Portrait of Horace Greeley, circa 1865
Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Politicians, military officers, celebrities and other notable persons, such as abolitionist and editor Horace Greeley, were popular subjects.