Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits

Title: Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits

Type: Photographs

Created: 1877-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract: The Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Card Portraits Collection is a group of mounted portrait photographs created by various photography studios and photographers from approximately 1880 to 1900. The selections presented come from D.C. Public Library’s Card Mounted Photograph Collection and the National Rifles Scrapbook Collection and are some of the oldest photographs in the library’s historical collections. This small photographic format was mostly used for studio portraits which would be given to friends and family by the sitter. DC Public Library's collection of these images depict mostly men, in various backgrounds and dress, including individuals posed with penny-farthing bicycles and uniformed members of the National Rifles. The National Rifles, an independent company of the D.C. Militia, was organized in 1859 in the wake of John Brown’s raid and was the first company of citizen troops ordered into the Civil War in 1861. All portraits from the Card Mounted Photograph Collection and the National Rifles Scrapbook Collection have been digitized and are arranged in alphabetical order.

Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits

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