Najstarsze zabytkowe albumy na fotografie
The oldest historical albums for photographs

Summary/Abstract: This article is about the constitution and appearance of an early album, dating from around 1860, designed for the safekeeping and displaying of photographs as exemplified by a number of almost identical copies from the ‘Kosmos’ antique bookshop in Warsaw, the Warsaw Historical Museum and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg (ills. 3-5). Photographic albums of this kind first appeared in Paris in 1858 as a result of the great popularity the photographs of cartes de visité format, patented by André Adolphe Eugenie Disderi in 1854. The first establishments producing such albums were likely to have been found in France, which by 1864 had also arisen in Berlin and Offenbach am Main. Until the mid-1860s such albums were used exclusively for photographs of cartes de visité type. Digitalized and reedited material

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