(3096) Vintage Cabinet Card. Unknown little girl. A.Whitla. Manchester.

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(3096) Vintage Cabinet Card. Unknown little girl. A.Whitla. Manchester.:
$3.11

Vintage Cabinet Card showingan unknown littlegirl. Taken at the Studios of A.Whitla, 180, Oxford Street, Manchester.

Used but ingood condition.

I would date it late 1800\'s or early 1900\'s.

Photographer details on the back.

The carte de visite (abbreviated CdV or CDV) was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France by photographer Andre Disderi in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero. It was usually made of an albumen print, which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54.0mm (2.125in) × 89mm (3.5in) mounted on a card sized 64mm (2.5in) × 100mm (4in). In 1854, Disdéri had also patented a method of taking eight separate negatives on a single plate, which reduced production costs. The Carte de Visite was slow to gain widespead use until 1859, when Disdéri published Emperor Napoleon III\'s photos in this format. This made the format an overnight success, and the new invention was so popular it was known as \"cardomania\" and eventually spread throughout the world.

Each photograph was the size of a visiting card, and such photograph cards became enormously popular and were traded among friends and visitors. The immense popularity of these card photographs led to the publication and collection of photographs of prominent persons. \"Cardomania\" spread throughout Europe and then quickly to America. Albums for the collection and display of cards became a common fixture in Victorian parlors.

By the early 1870s, cartes de visite were supplanted by \"cabinet cards,\" which were also usually albumen prints, but larger, mounted on cardboard backs measuring 110mm (4.5in) by 170mm (6.5in). Cabinet cards remained popular into the early 20th century, when Kodak introduced the Brownie camera and home snapshot photography became a mass phenomenon.

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