Call Number:

PH-02880

Collection Name:

[Carte-de-visite album]

Creator:

No. of Items:

9 photographs in 1 album

Span Dates:

circa 1865

Description:

Photograph album, partially filled, containing nine cartes-de-visite. Several of the cartes-de-visite are reproductions of artworks. The album is bound in green pebble grain cloth over boards ornamentally blocked in blind and gilt. The spine and page edges are also gilt, and the album has a small brass clasp. Inscribed inside the album is "A. D. Wilbur" along with a list of the album's contents. Select item-level information follows.

2009:0014:0001 -- Napoleon I Emperor of France (art reproduction);
2009:0014:0002 -- Napoleon II (art reproduction);
2009:0014:0003 -- Louis Napoleon;
2009:0014:0004 -- Albert Edward Prince of Wales (art reproduction of a lithograph by Desmaisons, Emilien Desmaisons);
2009:0014:0005 -- Albert Edward Prince of Wales;
2009:0014:0006 -- Louis XVII (art reproduction);
2009:0014:0007 -- Pope Pius IX (art reproduction);
2009:0014:0008 -- Count Bismark;
2009:0014:0009 -- Rosa Bonheur (art reproduction of a painting by Louis-Edouard Debufe that depicts the artist with a cow). Carte-de-visite published by F. P. Fulton (American, born 1840).

Accession No(s):

2009:0014:0001-0009

Location(s):

PH-02880 (2009:0014:0001-0009)
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