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- "New Masonic Temple, Boston," circa 1870 - This carte-de-visite, made around 1870 in the studio of Boston photographer Joseph Ward, shows the city's "New Masonic Temple" (built in 1867). Cartes-de-visite were small photographic prints on cardboard stock made by professionals. 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.
- circa 1870
- Collections - Artifact
"New Masonic Temple, Boston," circa 1870
This carte-de-visite, made around 1870 in the studio of Boston photographer Joseph Ward, shows the city's "New Masonic Temple" (built in 1867). Cartes-de-visite were small photographic prints on cardboard stock made by professionals. 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.
- Portrait of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, circa 1855 - Cartes-de-visite - small photographic prints on cardboard stock - were made in professional photographers' studios. This early example shows a portrait of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, wife of renowned poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Americans collected and exchanged cartes-de-visites, which remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s.
- circa 1850
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, circa 1855
Cartes-de-visite - small photographic prints on cardboard stock - were made in professional photographers' studios. This early example shows a portrait of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, wife of renowned poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Americans collected and exchanged cartes-de-visites, which remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s.