[Carte-de-visite Album]

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Artist André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri(French, 1819–1889)French, 1819–1889

CultureFrench

Titles

[Carte-de-visite Album]

Date1860s–1880s

Medium48 albumen silver prints from glass negatives

DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (16.5 × 14 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins

Object number2015.601

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 208

Exposé

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Marvins Family Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionJust as people “friend” one another on Facebook today, family and friends in the second half of the 19th century exchanged carte-de-visite portraits and gathered them in albums that were manufactured to hold the standard-size, mass-produced cards. Portraits of celebrities and royalty were often interspersed with true kin, as more common folk hoped some of the luster might rub off on them.
ProvenanceMichele (Mickey) Sharney Marvins, Houston; given to MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition History“A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 4–July 5, 2015.
Published References Daniel, Malcolm with Anne Wilkes Tucker. "A Photographer's Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins" Houston, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2015

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