In 1854, Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri popularized the carte de visite and these small pictures (the size of a visiting card) rapidly became a popular novelty; thousands were created and sold in the United States and Europe.
V roku 1859 parížsky fotograf André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri popularizoval carte de visite a tieto malé obrázky veľkosti navštívenky sa rýchlo stali populárnou novinkou a tisícky ich vznikli a predali sa v USA a Európe.