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Definition of Cartes de visite

Cartes de visite
Carte de visite Carte" de vi*site`, pl. Cartes de visite. [F.] 1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.

Meaning of Cartes de visite from wikipedia

- The carte de visite (French: [kaʁt(ə) də vizit(ə)], English: 'visiting card', abbr. 'CdV', pl. cartes de visite) was a format of small photograph which...
- widely distributed as cabinet photos and postcards. Smith would carry cartes de visite of himself, selling them to visitors. He was known to travel for free...
- subjects of his cartes de visite. Photographs had previously served as calling cards, but Disdéri's invention of the paper carte de visite (i.e. "visiting...
- home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a po****r new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard"...
- M Shed, Bristol. Rudd, Annie (2016). "Victorians Living in Public: Cartes de Visite as 19th-Century Social Media". Photography and Culture. 9 (3): 195–217...
- Ken (2019). Country Music (Television do****entary). USA: PBS. "Union Cartes-de-Visite: Robert Brown Potter, Andrew Porter, Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, William...
- States during the American Civil War. Although prints on paper (see cartes de visite and cabinet cards) soon displaced them as the most common type of photograph...
- M****achusetts. In 1854, with proceeds from sales of the narrative and cartes-de-visite captioned, "I sell the shadow to support the substance", she paid off...
- British photographic business, and manufacturer of cabinet cards and cartes de visite, and later picture postcards. In 1866, the photographers Andrew Taylor...
- Civil War. The bulk of the collection is ambrotypes, tintypes, and cartes de visite of individual soldiers and officers from both sides of the conflict...