This photograph of the White House North Portico by E & H.T. Anthony & Co. was printed as a carte de visite. Cartes de visite were the size of visiting cards and were popular Victorian collectables between 1859 and the early 1870s. Much like modern trading cards, they were exchanged between family and friends and displayed in albums. It was taken either in Abraham Lincoln's presidency or Andrew Johnson's.
This photograph of the White House North Portico by E & H.T. Anthony & Co. was printed as a carte de visite. Cartes de visite were the size of visiting cards and were popular Victorian collectables between 1859 and the early 1870s. Much like modern trading cards, they were exchanged between family and friends and displayed in albums. It was taken either in Abraham Lincoln's presidency or Andrew Johnson's.