CDV UNION MAJ. GEN. PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN CIVIL WAR NR!

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MAJOR GERERAL PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN CARTE DE VISITES Union Major General Philip Henry Sheridan is dress in full uniform with hat sitting on a draped chair with one hand on his hip The back shows the label of Guy B. Davis, successor to C. Miller, Photographis Artist, Burlington, VT. T are initials on the back of the card " LJP". Sheridan was a daring and highly important military leader for the Union army during the United States Civil War. HISTORY OF CARTE DE VISITES The carte de visite or CDV was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France by photographer AndrÃ© Adolphe EugÃ¨ne DisdÃ©ri in 1854. It was usually made of an albumen print , which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 2.125 Ã-- 3.5 inches mounted on a card sized 2.5 Ã-- 4 inches. It was made popular in 1859 in Europe, and from 1860 in the United States. The new invention was so popular it was known as "cardomania"and eventually spread throughout the world. In 1854, DisdÃ©ri had also patented a method of taking eight separate negatives on a single plate. Each photograph was the size of a visiting card , and such photograph cards became enormously popular and were traded among friends and visitors. The immense popularity of these card photographs led to the publication and collection of photographs read more

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