| 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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