cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

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  • Small-format photographs affixed to card stock, popular in the mid-19th century. They went out of fashion in the 1870s. The photographs were typically portraits and the image was a standard size of 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches; they were generally produced by a multiple-lens camera that created several images on a single full-sized negative plate. Full-size prints from the plate were cut into sections measuring 4 x 2 1/2 inches, and the pieces were often mounted on cards, which initially served as visitors' cards; it later became the custom to exchange them on birthdays and holidays, and to collect cartes-de-visite of friends, family members, and celebrities in albums. Examples are card photographs patented by the Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in 1854 and similar items produced by Mathew B. Brady and other photographers.

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cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

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cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

  • UF card photographs (cartes-de-visite)

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cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

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Adair, Elias Coleman and Martha (Kemp)

Adair, Elias Coleman and Martha (Kemp)

Transcription from front: “E. C. Adair, M. D., and Wife. Dr. Adair born 1825; to California, 1849; Oregon 1852, settling in Salem; Married Martha Kemp, on Str. Gazelle early in 1854; prominent in Sunday school work; died, Salem, Nov. 6, 1869. Mrs. Adair, b. Mo. 1836; to Oregon, 1852; died, Portland, May 20, 1911. Both Congregationalists.”

Adair, Inez and Ward, Florence

Adair, Inez and Ward, Florence

Full length portrait of three children. Two of the children are identified as Florence Ward and Inez Adair. The third child is unidentified. Transcription from back: “Florence Ward and Inez Adair, 1836?”

Ellsworth & Cardwell (Portland, Or.)

Backenstos, Edwin D.

Backenstos, Edwin D.

Portrait of Edwin D. Backenstos, pioneer of 1849, the son of Jacob B. and Sarah (Lee) Backenstos. He was born in Illinois on September 13, 1843. He died April 23, 1876.

Backenstos, Sarah L. (Lee)

Backenstos, Sarah L. (Lee)

Sarah L. Lee, the wife of Colonel Jacob B. Backenstos, pioneer of 1849. They were married December 15, 1836. They started for Oregon Territory in April of 1849 from Missouri, and arrived in October 1849, settling in Oregon City. Jacob was in command of a regiment of the U. S. Mounted Rifles while crossing the plains.

Bagley, Alice (Mercer)

Bagley, Alice (Mercer)

Alice Mercer, who married Clarence B. Bagley in 1865 and was a pioneer of 1852. She was born October 26, 1848, in Illinois. They settled in Seattle, where Clarence was in the newspaper industry and on the Board of Public Works. They had two children. She died in Seattle in October 1913.

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