Archive Farms The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2021.581c
(Patrick Montgomery, FB comment, 965. Early card mounted photographs and prototype cartes de visite, 5 September 2023) Aguado and his friend Edouard Delessert had many projects to encourage development of commercial photography. They also claimed to be inventors of the portrait cards, which came to be know as carte-de-vistes. In 1854 in the newspaper "la Lumière" Chief editor Ernest Lacan wrote: "an original idea provided to M. Delessert and to Earl Aguado an opportunity to make delicious small portraits. Up until then cards used to show name, address, and sometimes titles, why not replacing name by a picture? That is what did these Gentlemen". One month later, Eugène Disderi filed the portrait-card patent.
