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Format. The carte de visite was usually an albumen print from a collodion negative on thin paper glued onto a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54.0 mm (2.125 in) × 89 mm (3.5 in) mounted on a card sized 64 mm (2.5 in) × 100 mm (4 in). The reverse was generally printed with the logo of the photographer or the photography ...
Visiting card. A visiting card or a calling card was a small, decorative card that was carried by individuals to present themselves to others. It was a common practice in the 18th and 19th century, particularly among the upper classes, to leave a visiting card when calling on someone (which means to visit their house or workplace).
Postcard. Postcard depicting people boarding a train at the Shawnee Depot in Colorado, late 1800s. A postcard or post card is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically rectangular, intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. Non-rectangular shapes may also be used but are rare.
Paul Martin (June 6, 1883 – March 19, 1932) was an American commercial artist and illustrator. He designed the world's largest sign in 1917. It towered over Times Square until 1924. His artwork appeared on twenty covers of Collier's between 1923 and 1927. He thrice won the "Cover of the Year" award from Parents magazine, 1928–30.
Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is primarily geared toward digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Early magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such ...
Signature. André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri ( French: [ɑ̃dʁe adɔlf (ə) øʒɛn (ə) dizdeʁi]; 28 March 1819 – 4 October 1889) was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card.
Karoly Grosz (illustrator) Karoly Grosz ( US: / ˈkɑːˌrɔɪ ˈɡroʊs /, KAH-roy GROHSS; Hungarian: [ˈkaːroj ˈɡroːs]; March 9, 1897 – May 14, 1952) was a Hungarian–American illustrator of Classical Hollywood–era film posters. As art director at Universal Pictures for the bulk of the 1930s, Grosz oversaw the company's advertising ...
The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for ... Carte de visite (2.5 by 4.5 inches (64 by 114 mm)), the same size as calling cards