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Barr & Wright 
Boy with Photo Album on Lap 
1870s (ca) 
  
Wet collodion negative 
5 x 3.5 ins 
  
Smithsonian Books 
Courtesy of Smithsonian Books. 
  
 
LL/44456 
  
Barr and Wright Studio
 
The boy holds the album that contained the collectible cartes de visite that were the mainstay of many portrait photography businesses from the mid-1850s through the 1870s.
 
This photograph is included in Shannon Thomas Perich The Changing Face of Portrait Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital (Washington, DC: National Museum of American History, 2011) 
 

 
  
 
  
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