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- Portrait of the Artist, Henry Peters Gray, circa 1870 - American painter Henry Peters Gray posed for this carte-de-visite around 1865. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.
- circa 1870
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Portrait of the Artist, Henry Peters Gray, circa 1870
American painter Henry Peters Gray posed for this carte-de-visite around 1865. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.