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Portrait of Sculptor Edmonia Lewis, circa 1870
Rocher, H. (Henry), b. 18241870
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Edmonia Lewis, a renowned sculptor of African-American and Native American heritage who worked primarily in Rome, posed for this carte-de-visite when she traveled to Chicago in 1870. Cartes-de-visite, small photographic prints on cardboard stock, remained popular from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Americans commonly collected and exchanged them to commemorate family members or celebrities.
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- Title: Portrait of Sculptor Edmonia Lewis, circa 1870
- Creator: Rocher, H. (Henry), b. 1824
- Date: 1870
- Location: United States, Illinois, Chicago
- Subject Keywords: Cartes-de-visite (Card photographs), Card photographs (Photographs), Photographs, Studio portraits, Lewis, Edmonia, African Americans
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=369555
- Object Name: Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
- Object ID: 2012.0.5.8
- Image ID: THF210563
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford
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