Likenesses Within the Reach of All
From the webpage:
The Southern Cartes de Visite Collection is a recently digitized group of 3,356 photographs from circa 1850 to 1900. The map below depicts the locations of the collection’s photographers, studios, and galleries between about 1850 and 1900. Users can browse the map and select locations to see information and examples of the cartes-de-visite taken there. Users can also filter the collection by photographer and zoom in to cities like Baltimore, Louisville, or New Orleans to see the individual studio addresses. By clicking on the locations, users can access an Acumen link to see the photographs and manipulate them as if they were in the archive.
Great resource for Southern history buffs who want to map between period resources that are online.
Then, like now, some people were more photogenic than others. 😉
I first saw this in a tweet by Stewart Varner.