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Carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Pawnee Indian men, Nebraska

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Description: A group of eight carte-de-visite studio photographs of individual Pawnee men and one view of several tipis with white men standing nearby. All taken by photographer H. Fish of Fremont, Nebraska or Jackson Bros., Omaha. Also in this folder, two carte-de-visite photographs of hydraulic mining ("Sluice Flumes" and "Timbuctoo Diggings") in Yuba County, California by Lawrence & Houseworth.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1865.
Call number: photPF 2900-2919
Provenance: Pawnee photographs acquired from Grabhorn, 1945.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Carte-de-visite photograph of a Filipina woman

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A carte-de-visite studio portrait of a young Filipina woman posed with a large mortar, pestles, and baskets. The photographer is unidentified.

photPF 26036

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Photograph album containing cartes-de-visite and tintype portraits of unidentified sitters

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A commercially produced carte-de-visite album containing portraits of men, women, and children in professional studio settings (some possibly in Southern California). Only two subjects are identified in the album (Bill Gamble's father (#74) and Bill Gamble and his mother in San Diego, 1914/15 (#75).

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Carte-de-visite portraits of James Fenimore Cooper and family members

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Carte-de-visite studio portraits of American author James Fenimore Cooper (photPF 20815), his brother Levi Cooper (photPF 20816, 20818), and his sister Anna Cooper (photPF 20817), two photographers identified on cartes-de-visite versos: J.H. Abbott of Albany, New York (photPF 20815) and Higgins & Terril of Elyria, Ohio (photPF 20817).

photPF 20815-20818

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Cartes-de-visite by early commercial photographers in the Philippines

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A group of 10 carte-de-visite portraits taken in the1860s and 1870s in photography studios in Manila, Philippines. The unidentified sitters are Filipino, Chinese, and Spanish men, women and children, mostly in individual portraits, with one image of three Indigenous men posed with spears. Six images are credited to Pedro Picon (one dated 1867); the others have imprints for Fotografia Universal Manila, Honiss Fotografo Manila, H. Schuren, and W. W. Wood. These cartes-de-visite illustrate the early activities of commercial photography studios in the Philippines.

photCL 721

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Cartes-de-visite by early commercial photographers in the Philippines

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photCL 721

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Cartes-de-visite (photographs)

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Approximately 5,000 cartes-de-visite and a few tintypes, almost all portraits. The carte-de-visite, or calling card photograph, is generally an albumen print mounted on cardstock, 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches. Some photographs are hand colored or have handwritten names written on the back. The binders contain about 200 to 250 photographs each.

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Carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Pawnee Indian men, Nebraska

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