Category Archives: Cartes de Visite

Old School Trick Photography

Posted on July 3, 2017 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cartes de Visite, Cool Collections, Everyday Life, Photographs | Tagged | Leave a comment

This post was written several weeks ago by Alissa Helms. She has since moved on from Digital Services, but we wanted to share one of her finds from the Perkins family photos. While she was digitizing the tail end of … Continue reading →

Images from the CSS Alabama

Posted on July 20, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cartes de Visite, Civil War, Everyday Life, Newly Online, Photograph Albums, Small Collections | Leave a comment

The Confederate cruiser CSS Alabama has quite a history. Our sister blog, Cool at Hoole, has a series of posts telling the ship’s story, which — if you’ll believe it — starts with construction in secrecy in England and ends … Continue reading →

Cartes de visite: More than just photographs

Posted on July 24, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cartes de Visite, Cool Collections, Everyday Life, Newly Online, Photographs | Tagged | 1 Comment

Recently, we digitized a large collection of cartes de visite, a mid 19th century photography phenomenon that featured albumen prints mounted on heavy paper or cardstock. Here are some examples — click on each image to see it up close, complete with the photography studio … Continue reading →