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DARRAH, William C. Cartes de Visite in 19th Century

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DARRAH, William C. Cartes de Visite in 19th Century

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DARRAH, William C. Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: W. C. Darrah, 1981. Hardcover (gold-stamped red leatherette), 11 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches, 222 pages, 448 halftone illustrations, dustjacket. Nineteenth-century expert Darrah's exhaustive study of one of the most popular photographic formats during the late nineteenth century. His essay covers the background and development of the carte and the business of photography. While the vast majority of cartes de visite were portraits, he includes a section on about seventy-five other subjects, from advertising to zoology. One corner bumped.