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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 5445834, member: 8267&quot;]You don&#039;t provide sizes, but the photos look like albumen prints in the carte de visite format. Carte de visite photos were popular from the late 1850s into the 1870s. They were inexpensive, making photographic portraiture affordable for many people. Popular subjects - such as political and military figures, actors and other people of interest - could be mass produced and the images became collectible sort of like baseball cards. Such collectible images could include reproductions of prints and drawings such as the &quot;portrait&quot; of Christ and your last example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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