For offer, a rare CDV ( carte de visite - visiting card ) Photograph! Fresh from a prominent estate in Upstate NY. Vintage, Old, Original, Antique, NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !!

Interesting photo. Old stores to the right, and large building at left - looks like a church, Photographer advertising imprint on back of Roberts, State Street. In very good condition. Please see photo. If you collect 19th century Americana history, photography, American photos, etc. this is a treasure you will not see again! Add this to your image or paper / ephemera collection. Important genealogy research importance too. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 220

Nearby towns in Monroe County :

City

    Rochester (county seat)

Towns

    Brighton
    Chili
    Clarkson
    East Rochester
    Gates
    Greece
    Hamlin
    Henrietta
    Irondequoit
    Mendon
    Ogden
    Parma
    Penfield
    Perinton
    Pittsford
    Riga
    Rush
    Sweden
    Webster
    Wheatland

Villages

    Brockport
    Churchville
    East Rochester
    Fairport
    Hilton
    Honeoye Falls
    Pittsford
    Scottsville
    Spencerport
    Webster

Census-designated places

    Brighton
    Clarkson
    Gates
    Greece
    Hamlin
    Irondequoit
    North Gates

Hamlets

    Adams Basin
    Garbutt
    Gates Center
    Mumford
    Union Hill

The carte de visite[1] (abbreviated CdV or CDV, and also spelled carte-de-visite or erroneously referred to as carte de ville) was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero.[2][3] It was usually made of an albumen print, which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54.0 mm (2.125 in) × 89 mm (3.5 in) mounted on a card sized 64 mm (2.5 in) × 100 mm (4 in). In 1854, Disdéri had also patented a method of taking eight separate negatives on a single plate, which reduced production costs. The Carte de Visite was slow to gain widespread use until 1859, when Disdéri published Emperor Napoleon III's photos in this format.[4] This made the format an overnight success. The new invention was so popular it was known as "cardomania"[5] and it spread throughout Europe and then quickly to America and the rest of the world.

Each photograph was the size of a visiting card, and such photograph cards were traded among friends and visitors. Albums for the collection and display of cards became a common fixture in Victorian parlors. The immense popularity of these card photographs led to the publication and collection of photographs of prominent persons.

By the early 1870s, cartes de visite were supplanted by "cabinet cards," which were also usually albumen prints, but larger, mounted on cardboard backs measuring 110 mm (4.5 in) by 170 mm (6.5 in). Cabinet cards remained popular into the early 20th century, when Kodak introduced the Brownie camera and home snapshot photography became a mass phenomenon.