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[Carte-de-Visite Album of Famous Personages]

Artist:
N.C.
Artist:
Jeremiah Gurney (American, 1812–1895 Coxsackie, New York)
Artist:
A. Gerschel (French)
Artist:
John Watkins (British, 1823–1874)
Artist:
Trinquart (French)
Artist:
Léon Crémière (French, 1831–1872)
Artist:
Southwell Brothers (British, active ca. 1860–80)
Artist:
Charles Reutlinger (German, Karlsruhe 1816–1881 Karlsruhe)
Artist:
G. Spingler
Artist:
Nadar (French, Paris 1820–1910 Paris)
Artist:
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, Paris 1819–1889 Paris)
Artist:
Pierre Petit (French, Aups 1832–1909 Paris)
Artist:
Henry Maull (British, 1829–1914)
Artist:
Oscar Gustav Rejlander (British, born Sweden, 1813–1875)
Artist:
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (British, Oldham, Lancashire 1813–1901 West Sussex)
Artist:
Sergei Luvovich Levitsky (Russian, 1819–1898)
Artist:
Robert Jefferson Bingham (British, active France, 1825–70)
Artist:
George Henry Polyblank (British, born 1820)
Date:
1860s–80s
Medium:
Albumen silver prints
Classification:
Albums
Credit Line:
Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1967
Accession Number:
67.580.4.1–.101
Not on view
A. Hyatt Mayor

McCauley, Elizabeth Anne. A. A. E. Disdéri and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Aubenas, Sylvie. "Le petit monde de Disdéri." Etudes photographiques 3 (1997). pp. 26–41.

Timelines
France, 1800-1900 A.D.

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Artist: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, Paris 1819–1889 Paris) Date: ca. 1865 Medium: Albumen silver print Accession: 67.580.4.4 On view in:Not on view

[Emperor Napoleon III]

Artist: Georges Spingler (French, active 1860–80) Date: ca. 1860–65 Medium: Albumen silver print Accession: 67.580.4.1 On view in:Not on view

[Empress Eugenie Seated with Book]

Artist: Unknown (French) Date: ca. 1860–65 Medium: Albumen silver print Accession: 67.580.4.5 On view in:Not on view

[Imperial Family]

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[Eugenie, Empress of the French]

Artist: Georges Spingler (French, active 1860–80) Date: ca. 1860–65 Medium: Albumen silver print Accession: 67.580.4.2 On view in:Not on view
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