[James Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Archive record

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 98 x 63 mm (carte de visite format)

About this photograph

This carte de visite photograph shows James Adams in a head-and-shoulders portrait, facing the camera. The albumen print was mounted on card measuring 98 by 63 millimetres, the standard carte de visite format of the period. It was produced by J.W. Black & Co in 1882.

No further information about James Adams is recorded in the archive. The circumstances of the sitting, Adams's occupation or background, and his reasons for having his photograph taken remain unknown.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

About the format

Rights & Attribution

Explore

More from the 1880s

[Charles Campbell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

1882

[John Emerich, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

1882

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of unidentified woman, facing left]

1882

[Farcesse Fanian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

1882

Garfield and his family

1881

[Henry Fletcher, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

1881