Unidentified photographer / artist 1863 Uses of carte-de-visite
Magazine page Google Books Publshed in "What-Not; or Ladies' Handy-Book", Volume IV, 1863 (London: Kent & Co), p.332
Photographs Again. We spoke in our last number of the new and pretty way in which the miniature portrait cut out of any selected carte de visite was now being applied. The circle of their usefulness seems to be continually enlarging in various ways. In offering houses to proposed occupants, it is now quite a customary plan to forward photographs of the building, garden, and surrounding grounds; but it is only lately that ladies seeking engagements either as governesses or companions have adopted the fashion of introducing themselves to those with whom they are negociating by means of forwarding their carte de visite.
