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How to receive visiting cards
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- Regionals
- The background of Visiting cards
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Regionals
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Japan
If your company is dealing with Japan, then do be courteous enough
to have the reverse side of business cards printed in Japanese. |
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The background of Visiting cards
A.Visiting cards
Visiting cards (a.k.a. calling cards) were an essential accessory to
any 19th Century middle class lady or gentleman.
They served as evidence of meeting social obligations, as
well as a streamlined letter of introduction.
They also served as an aid to connect memories to
a person. We all heavily rely on this support as we meet at fairs
many people and try to scribble a note on the back to remember
what we discussed or promised.
The stack of cards in the card tray in the hall was
a handy catalog of exactly who had called and who's calls might need
to be returned.
They did smack of affectation however, and were not generally
used among country folk or working class Americans.
B.Business cards
Business cards on the other hand, were widespread among men
and women, of all classes with a business to promote.
There was a rigid distinction between business and visiting
cards. Then it was considered to be a sign of very poor taste
to use a business card when making a social call. A business
card, left with the servants, could imply that you had called
to collect a bill.
C.carte de visite
The carte de visite is easily recognized by the small card
on which the photograph is mounted.
In this format, a small paper photographic print is
mounted on a commercially produced card.
Now a days nobody really uses such cards. Some business
cards have got a photograp added as a help to remember the card and
the person connected to.
The carte de visite (commonly abbreviated to CdV)
today is not a rare item, being produced by the millions in the nineteenth-century.
Timeline
| Nov. 1854 |
The French photographer A.
A. Disderi introduced a method for producing
multiple images on a single glass plate,
a format for mounting the resulting images on
card stock and the name "carte de visite" to
describe the product.
The carte de visite began appearing
in the United States late in the summer of 1859.
By the end of 1860 the carte de visite
had become the fashion throughout the country. |
| Peak: 1860-1866 |
The height of the "carte
craze" was the period 1860-1866, which
included the photography boom that occurred
during the American civil war.
The early 1860s period saw the first commercial photographic
albums, which began to grace ordinary middle-class parlors.
By 1864, a family would have to be poor indeed to
not own a carte de visite album. |
| Starting in 1866 |
The cabinet card began
to erode the position held by the carte de visite.
Carte production waned from 1870 to the late 1880s when they
all but disappeared from the scene. |
| Last used in 1906 |
Cartes were, however,
produced after 1900, perhaps to 1906
or perhaps in limited numbers to 1920. |
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