Young Girl with Doll and Doll Buggy, circa 1880
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A young girl posed with her doll in a photographer's studio for this carte-de-visite around 1880. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected 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.
A young girl posed with her doll in a photographer's studio for this carte-de-visite around 1880. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected 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.
Artifact
Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
Date Made
circa 1880
Subject Date
circa 1880
Creators
Unknown
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
93.0.13.2.11
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Albumen process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4.125 in
Width: 2.5 in
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