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Ironworker Wearing a Leather Apron and Holding Tongs, circa 1865
Stuber, F. L., b. 18461860/1870
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
A young man with tongs and a leather apron posed in photographer F. L. Stuber's South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania studio around 1865. This portrait carte-de-visite is a product of his sitting. Cartes-de-visite, small photographic prints on cardboard stock, were popular in the United States from the 1860s through the 1880s. Americans commonly collected and exchanged them to commemorate family members or celebrities.
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- Title: Ironworker Wearing a Leather Apron and Holding Tongs, circa 1865
- Creator: Stuber, F. L., b. 1846
- Date Created: 1860/1870
- Location: United States, Pennsylvania, South Bethlehem
- Subject Keywords: Foundrymen, Cartes-de-visite (Card photographs), Card photographs (Photographs), Photographs, Studio portraits
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
- Object ID: 95.97.11
- Image ID: THF212080
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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