{"id":29,"date":"2014-12-01T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-12-02T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T15:29:56","slug":"map-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/2014\/12\/01\/map-test\/","title":{"rendered":"CDVs by State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col2%3E%3E1+from+17f1zvHb_Xki6lL9kFXMqfAxeHx1CNpzYH5VNbNtg&#038;viz=MAP&#038;h=false&#038;lat=37.94640443468255&#038;lng=-92.93034887290003&#038;t=1&#038;z=5&#038;l=col2%3E%3E1&#038;y=2&#038;tmplt=2&#038;hml=KML\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The location data\u00a0collected on\u00a0the cartes-de-visite provides an extraordinarily valuable resource to researchers. Due to how the photographs were advertised and sold, studios listed their address or general location on the back of the carte-de-visite and often left out information such as the specific photographer, the subject, or the year the photograph was taken.\u00a0As a result, the location information was recorded on the day the photograph was taken, while many other\u00a0details were later written\u00a0on the backing by the customer, by archivists and collectors, or lost altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The consistent inclusion of location information provided by studios and their photographers lends itself to geospatial analysis. Developed in France in the early 1850s, cartes-de-visite were originally handed out to friends and family\u00a0as calling cards during visits (Jeffrey Ruggles, <em>Photography in Virginia\u00a0<\/em>(Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 2008), 26). Studios and galleries\u00a0commonly sold the small photographs by the dozen, allowing customers to have a supply of prints for their social circle. Photographers\u00a0took advantage of the format and included\u00a0what amounted to small advertisements on the backing, letting the recipient know where they could also obtain cartes-de-visite. Distributed through personal networks, cartes-de-visite allowed studios to announce\u00a0their location to a receptive\u00a0audience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/files\/2014\/11\/w0001_2014001_0200019_0002_2048.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-143 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/files\/2014\/11\/w0001_2014001_0200019_0002_2048-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Advertisement on reverse of a carte-de-visite.\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/files\/2014\/11\/w0001_2014001_0200019_0002_2048-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/files\/2014\/11\/w0001_2014001_0200019_0002_2048-645x1024.jpg 645w, https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/files\/2014\/11\/w0001_2014001_0200019_0002_2048-900x1427.jpg 900w, https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/files\/2014\/11\/w0001_2014001_0200019_0002_2048.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advertisement on reverse of a carte-de-visite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The A.S. Williams III Americana Collection is home to 3,356 cartes-de-visite, 3,311 of which include\u00a0a location. These range from the names of small towns, where studios would have been easily found, to specific addresses in larger cities like Baltimore, New Orleans, or Richmond. Both the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/\" target=\"_blank\">location map<\/a>\u00a0and the state map above, reveal how photography spread through the South in accordance with the region's settlement and growth. The\u00a0older,\u00a0former Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland dominate the collection. Settled earlier and more densely than their more southern counterparts, these two states granted photographers more opportunity to establish themselves in cities and smaller towns. This is especially evident in Virginia, where photographers lined the Shenandoah Valley and opened studios in towns like Staunton, Harrisonburg, and Roanaoke. In contrast, photographers in states like Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi occasionally found themselves relocating to new towns and states in search of new business.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0larger southern cities, the collection reveals how photographic studios clustered on specific streets or commercial districts. In Baltimore, for instance, studios lined West Baltimore Street, while photographers in Louisville populated Market Street, Main Street, and nearby blocks. Using the collection, scholars can not only understand\u00a0how photography spread across the southern states, but also\u00a0explore the\u00a0prominence of these institutions in local\u00a0cities and towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The location data\u00a0collected on\u00a0the cartes-de-visite provides an extraordinarily valuable resource to researchers. Due to how the photographs were advertised and sold, studios listed their address or general location on the back of the carte-de-visite and often left out information such as the specific photographer, the subject, or the year the photograph was taken.\u00a0As a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cdv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}