carte-de-visite
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — Photography and Photographs.
(French, ‘calling card’)
A small card, bearing a photographic portrait, used as a supplement to the normal visiting card. Such cards were especially popular just after the middle...
heliogravure
Overview page. Subjects: Photography and Photographs — Bibliography.
A method of engraving by means of the action of light on a sensitized surface; hence an engraved plate, or an engraving, thus obtained. See also photogravure.
