"Carte de Visite of Lincoln
Photograph by Alexander Gardner
1865
This studio portrait shows Lincoln seated, holding his spectacles and a pencil, wearing a vest and chain. Cartes de visite, usually measuring 2-1/2 by 4 inches, were popular in the mid-nineteenth century and were often traded among friends and displayed in albums."
"Many ambrotypes were made by unknown photographers, such as this American example of a small girl holding a flower, circa 1860. Because of their fragility ambrotypes were held in folding cases much like those used for daguerreotypes."
The looks of these two photos are very different. One looks like it has been printed on a thick material and has no frame to it. The other looks similar to a Daguerreotype and the look of it has a aged look to it. The other differences are that the Carte de Visite has something written under the picture on the card. The carte de visite reminds me a lot of today's playing card, for something like a sports card. The ambrotype looks like a typical photo of those days of a child.
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