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  2. Visiting card - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Visiting card. A visiting card, also called a calling card, was a small, decorative card that was carried by individuals to present themselves to others. It was a common practice in the 18th and 19th century, particularly among the upper classes, to leave a visiting card when calling on someone (which means to visit their house or ...

  3. Carte de visite - Wikipedia

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    The carte de visite ( French: [kaʁt də vizit], English: ' visiting card ', abbr. 'CdV', pl. cartes de visite) was a format of small photograph which was patented in Paris by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero . Each photograph was the size of a visiting card, and such photograph cards, in ...

  4. Ellen Clapsaddle - Wikipedia

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    Her designs began appearing in Valentine's Day cards, souvenir postcards, booklets, watercolor prints, calendars, and trade cards. Clapsaddle spent some years in Germany, funded by the International Art Publishing Company, and then returned to New York well before her mother's death in 1905. [4]

  5. Greeting card - Wikipedia

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    A greeting card is a piece of card stock, usually with an illustration or photo, made of high quality paper featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment. Although greeting cards are usually given on special occasions such as birthdays, Christmas or other holidays, such as Halloween, they are also sent to convey thanks or express ...

  6. Artist-in-residence - Wikipedia

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    Definitions. An artist residency is an opportunity provided by a host organisation that enables a guest artist to work in a new environment, often away from the restrictions and pressures of their everyday lives. Artist residencies are about providing the time and space for a guest artist to develop work and creatively explore new ideas.

  7. Business card - Wikipedia

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    A Oscar Friedheim card cutting and scoring machine from 1889, capable of producing up to 100,000 visiting and business cards a day. Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. [1] [2] They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid.

  8. List of painters by name - Wikipedia

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    The following lists of painters by name includes about 3,400 painters from all ages and parts of the world.

  9. Graphic design - Wikipedia

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    Graphic design is a profession, [2] academic discipline [3] [4] [5] and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. [6] Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of design [1] and of the fine arts.