[Carte-de-visite album of South American studio portraits]

[Carte-de-visite album of South American studio portraits]

Bound volume

[Carte-de-visite album of South American studio portraits]

ca. 1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 6 3/16 × 4 3/4 × 1 in. (15.7 × 12 × 2.5 cm)
Image (openings): 3 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (8.5 × 5.3 cm)
Mount (pages): 5 15/16 × 4 1/2 in. (15.1 × 11.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1976.0052.0001-0010
DescriptionContains ten cartes-de-visite portraits from studios located in South America including Lima, Peru; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bound in black decorated leather stamped in blind, gilt fore-edge, and fore-edge clasps.


Inscriptions Stamped in purple ink, front paste-down, BL: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION \ 34-27 [34 stamped in black ink, -27 inscribed in pencil]
Inscribed in pencil on front paste-down, TL: from Hall [illegible]
Printed in purple and gilt on title page, TC: PHOTOGRAPHS
Printed in gilt on title page, BC: Boston, \ Roberts-Brothers.
Inscribed in pencil, title page, verso, TL: Hall
Inscribed in pencil on back paste-down, BRC: MD \ 2

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