Cartes de Visite

A photographic phenomenon that was all the rage in the mid-nineteenth century was the carte-de-visite, with sales running into the hundreds of millions (so a lot of them are still around). The American Museum of Photography has a great exhibition on them here:

http://www.photographymuseum.com/worlds.html

I found two images of a "redeemed slave child" named Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence.

This photograph was taken in Brooklyn, New York,

This one was taken in Hartford, Connecticut.