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.
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John Loftus Robinson in Wells
with thanks to RSAI and AASchool.