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Cartes-de-Visite

February 11, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I stumbled over a few cartes-de-visite recently without realising what they were. I hadn’t realised that Parisians and Victorians (and the rest of the world) exchanged photographic portraits as calling cards.

Not a CdV but a self portrait from 1894
John Loftus Robinson in Wells
with thanks to RSAI and AASchool.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: aaschool, jlr, photography, rsai

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