Cartes de visite of the "near and dear" and the "great and good" literally and figuratively allowed Northern viewers to picture themselves as part of the nation.
On an entirely different front, dogs, particularly purebreds, have not neglected their social profiles, as seen in an 1870 carte de visite of a corpulent corgi photographed at the feet of Queen Victoria, a zealous defender of canine rights.
The portrait for the carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth, the African-American abolitionist and women's rights advocate, was taken in Battle Creek, Mich., in the 1860s (Slide 5).
Not coincidentally the most memorable pictures in the exhibition include daguerreotypes, like the ones of Walt Whitman, Barnum and Samuel F. B. Morse, and other famous photographs, like Brady's carte-de-visite of Lincoln.
His invention expanded the socioeconomic reach of photographic portraiture and led to carte mania in France and England; between 1860 and 1862, Daniel says, an estimated three million to four million carte de visites of Queen Victoria were sold.
Merchants sold carte de visites of Mrs. Ricks by famed London photographers Elliott & Fry.
The exhibit includes two carte-de-visites of Frederick Douglass, the revered abolitionist; one from 1889 is autographed — the museum's first signed Douglass photograph.
Known for his publicity seeking, Kinman appeared as a stereotypical mountain man dressed in buckskins on the U.S. east coast and selling cartes de visites of himself and his famous chairs.
Old age, suffering, become cartes de visite, advertisements of his skill.
But Shepard frequently steps back from such struggles to show the Celestials' quiet, unexpected transformation into North Adamites: their Sunday school classes, their surprising friendships (one will be adopted by Sampson's cousin, Fannie), their mania for having their photographs on cartes de visite, some of which are scattered, maddeningly uncaptioned, through the text.
Light-Lewis' research indicates that the drawing was copied directly from a carte de visite photo of Clark.
