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Your personal choice of "most tragic" character in the assassination story
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RE: Your personal choice of "most tragic" character in the assassination story
Maddie -

The photo of young Powell as a 15 year old in Alias is a CDV which was made from an ambrotype.


CDV's (short for the French Carte de Visite) were very, very popular -

This is a good site which explains the process for these albumen photographs. http://www.photographymuseum.com/histsw.htm

Here is a CDV of Lewis Powell which was made by Gardner and sold in his studio -

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RE: Your personal choice of "most tragic" character in the assassination story - by BettyO - 09-09-2012, 03:08 PM

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