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Cartes-De-Visites
About Antique Cartes-De-Visites Photographs
Cartes-De-Visites (CDVs), were part of a major shift in the 1860’s from glass and metal photographic media to treated paper mounted on cardstock. Cheaper than daguerreotypes and tintypes, CDVs (which originated in France) made photography accessible to more people and were ideal for giving out at social visits as gifts or calling cards. These 2.5 by 4 inch prints also became the standard medium for photos of soldiers.
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Interviews & Articles
An Interview With Victorian Trade Card Collector Ben Crane
How did I start collecting Victorian trade cards? In the late 60s I was a bottle collector, early American bottles and flasks. I s… [more]
An Interview With 19th Century Photograph and Americana Collector Wes Cowan
I’ve always been interested in antiques. As a kid, I collected a variety of stuff – fossils, rocks, minerals, natural history stuf… [more]
An Interview with Daile Kaplan of Swann Auction Galleries on Collecting 20th Century Photographs
Swann, which is New York City’s oldest specialty auction house, was founded in the late 1940s as an antiquarian book house. In the… [more]
An Interview With Baseball Card Collector Dave Campbell
Dave Campbell contacted me after reading a post on The Baseball Card blog. He's been collecting baseball cards non-stop since 1981… [more]
An Interview With Star Wars Card Collector Paul Holstein
I was 10 when the movie came out and I went to the store and bought a couple of packs of Star Wars cards. But I ended up trashing … [more]
An Interview With Antique Photograph and Camera Collectors Jack and Beverly Wilgus
We both come from families that had collections and we both had collections as children. Jack lost his when his grandmother threw … [more]
An Interview With Vintage Baseball Card Collector Ben Henry
I started collecting in 1986. If you’re in Boston and you’re a baseball fan, the Red Sox may take over your life. They take over y… [more]
An Interview With Metropolitan Museum Curator Jeff Rosenheim On The Postcard Collection Of Walker Evans
In 1994, I had the great pleasure of acquiring the complete archive of Walker Evans for the Metropolitan Museum. The archive is qu… [more]
Best of the Web (“Hall of Fame”)
The Daguerreian Society
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Tom Boblitt moderates this extremely deep, collaborative site dedicated to non-sports cards (tobacco, gum and candy… [read review or visit site]
Art of the Photogravure
Photographer Mark Katzman's comprehensive and beautiful reference site and collection of Photogravure. A must for p… [read review or visit site]
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The Wisconsin Historical Society has really outdone themselves with these excellent galleries focused on the 1880s-… [read review or visit site]
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