[Carte-de-visite album]
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
[Carte-de-visite album]
ca. 1862
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 6 3/8 × 10 7/16 × 1 9/16 in. (16.2 × 26.5 × 4 cm)
Image (openings): 3 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (8.5 × 5.2 cm)
Mount (pages): 6 × 9 7/16 in. (15.3 × 24 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1973.0175.0001-0030
DescriptionContains fifty-six carte-de-visite portraits of French nobility, military officers, and clergymen. The name of the subject appears under each image, two per page. Bound in brown tooled leather with marbled endpapers.
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink on applied scalloped-oval label, front flyleaf, verso, TLC: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER \ 75 [numerical inscribed in blue ink in center of label]
Printed in blue ink, around each CDV cutout, recto: [decorative border]
Typed in ink, on tan label applied to back flyleaf, TL: FRENCH \ CELEBRITIES \ CARTE-DE \ VISITE
Printed in blue ink, around each CDV cutout, recto: [decorative border]
Typed in ink, on tan label applied to back flyleaf, TL: FRENCH \ CELEBRITIES \ CARTE-DE \ VISITE
AlbumAlbum-Page
