Gallery
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One of the first Carte de visite of Queen Victoria taken by Photographer John Jabez Edwin Mayall -
Carte de visite of Hector Berlioz from 1864 or 1865, around the time his young lover Amélie broke off their relationship and soon died.
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Two examples of carte de visite photographs taken during the American Civil War. Each soldier shown here served with the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
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Carte de visite of Sojourner Truth. She sold these to raise money (see inscription).
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The only known photograph of Mary Seacole, taken for a carte de visite by Maull & Company in London in c.1873.
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Carte de visite of Sim D. Kehoe, who brought Indian clubs to the United States from England.
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CDV of Seth Kinman taken by Mathew Brady.
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CDV of a chair presented by Kinman to Abraham Lincoln. Kinman sold these CDVs in the U.S. Capitol.
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An early cat macro by British portrait photographer Harry Pointer, circa 1870s.
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Camille Silvy's portrait of William Fane De Salis, London, 1861.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)