Carte de visite album of French public figures, ca. 1870-1881.

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Carte de visite album of French public figures, ca. 1870-1881.

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Album containing 30 commercially-produced cartes de visite portraits of French artists, musicians, writers, philosophers, and politicians. Subjects include painter Gustave Courbet, composer Jacques Offenbach, socialist figure Louise Michel, and writers Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), and Alexandre Dumas (1825-1895), among many others. The photographs all appear to have been taken ca. 1870-1881, and photographers include Ferdinand Mulnier, J.M. Lopez, and Felix Nadar, all of Paris, among many others. All of the photographs are identified.

30 photographs in 1 album : cartes de visite, b&w ; 10.5 x 6, in album 15.5 x 13 cm.

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Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910

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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Epithet: alias 'Nadar'; French caricaturist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000266.0x0001c6 ...

Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895

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The writer Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895), the author of La Dame aux camlias, was the son of the novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). From the guide to the Miscellaneous correspondence from Alexandre Dumas junior to various recipients, 1850-1883, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) French author and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Marly-le-Roi], to an unidentified "monsieur," [1892 Apr. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 757338135 ...

Mulnier, Ferdinand 1817-1891

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Michel, Louise, 1830-1905

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Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885

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Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist and playwright. From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702159680 From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84010646 French writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to M. Cassin, 1831 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759121359 French poet, novelist, dramatist. ...

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

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Dumas, the French novelist. Jacques François Fromental Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy, was a French composer. From the description of [Letter, undated, to] M. Halévy / A. Dumas. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 225160848 His last, unfinished, historical romance. Never published in French in book form. From the description of Le comte de Moret : manuscript, [ca. 1869]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612780552 French nov...

Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877

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Nineteenth-century painter. From the description of Gustave Courbet papers, 1837-1877. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 17692634 French painter. From the description of Letters, 1865, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82594698 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to his father, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525390 Jean-Desiré Courbet was born in Ornans, Franche Comté, France,...

Lopez, J. M.,

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