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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 workplace).
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.
The Letter of Introduction, 1813, represents David Wilkie's own unfortunate experience of presenting such a letter to a prospective patron. [1]The letter of introduction, along with the visiting card, was an important part of polite social interaction in the 18th and 19th centuries.
jCard, "The JSON Format for vCard" is a standard proposal of 2014 in RFC 7095.RFC 7095 describes a lossless method of representing vCard instances in JSON, using arrays of sequence-dependent tag–value pairs. jCard has been incorporated into several other protocols, including RDAP, the Protocol to Access White Space Databases (PAWS, described in RFC 7545), and SIP, which (via RFC 8688) uses ...
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An attorney's business card, 1895 Eugène Chigot, post impressionist painter, business card 1890s A business card from Richard Nixon's first Congressional campaign, in 1946 Front and back sides of a business card in Vietnam, 2008 A Oscar Friedheim card cutting and scoring machine from 1889, capable of producing up to 100,000 visiting and business cards a day
Sample lady's visiting card from 1910, specifying an At Home day. The "At Home" day was a social custom in Victorian Britain, where women of gentle status would receive visitors on a specific day of the week. The woman would print calling cards indicating she would be "At Home" e.g. on "Fridays in April". [1]
A Visiting card was (is) a quite another thing than a Business card. The articles should not be merged. /B****n 17:45, 26 August 2008 (UTC) I concur; they are distinctly different documents used for different purposes. Ray Trygstad 06:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC) Visiting cards are distinctly different from business cards.