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<p>[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 9524519, member: 16283"]Your images at 3" x 4" are very close to a standard Carte De Visite size (2 1/4" x 3 1/2")-"patented in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" rel="nofollow">Paris</a> by photographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Adolphe_Eug%C3%A8ne_Disd%C3%A9ri" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Adolphe_Eug%C3%A8ne_Disd%C3%A9ri" rel="nofollow">André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri</a> in 1854". So I think you nailed the timeline.They became really widespread during the U.S. Civil War,in which Pennsylvania & Virginia were 'ground zero'.</p><p>PS-Like the box too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 9524519, member: 16283"]Your images at 3" x 4" are very close to a standard Carte De Visite size (2 1/4" x 3 1/2")-"patented in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris']Paris[/URL] by photographer [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Adolphe_Eug%C3%A8ne_Disd%C3%A9ri']André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri[/URL] in 1854". So I think you nailed the timeline.They became really widespread during the U.S. Civil War,in which Pennsylvania & Virginia were 'ground zero'. PS-Like the box too.[/QUOTE]
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