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A Collection of Five Victorian Albumen Print Cartes de Visite by Edward Smith, W. Watson, and Others - A collection of five late 19th-century studio portrait photographs produced as albumen prints on carte de visite card mounts. The subjects comprise individual portraits of men and women in Victorian period dress. One mount features a purple oval ink stamp on the reverse for Edward Smith, Photographer, Bramble St., Derby. A second mount displays a green printed decorative logo on the reverse for W. Watson, Artist and Photographer, Union Road, Nottingham. A third mount is inscribed in pencil J. W. Woodall and bears the printed location Bulwell, Nottingham. Additional pencil inscriptions on the reverse of two cards read Booth? and Mrs Booth?. The collection includes various studio settings and poses typical of the era, including seated and bust-length portraits.